The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Page 4

Vocabulary

စကားအနည်းငယ်မျှသာ

zaga hnin-ywe hmya tha — only a few words; a very small amount of speech

ပြောဆိုကာ

pyaw so ka — having said; speaking and then doing something

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — however; but; nevertheless

ကြင်နာသော

kyin na thaw — kind; affectionate; caring; tender-hearted

မျက်လုံးများဖြင့်

myat lone mya hpyin — with eyes; using one's eyes

သူသည်

thu thì — he/she; third-person subject pronoun

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kjəndaw go — me; first-person object pronoun (male)

လက်မောင်းကုလားထိုင်တစ်လုံးဆီသို့

let maung kula htaing tit lone si thoe — toward an armchair; in the direction of one armchair

လက်ဝှေ့ယမ်းပြကာ

let hwe yam pya ka — gesturing with hand; waving to show or indicate

ဆီးဂါးသေတ္တာကို

si ga theitta go — the cigar box; referring to a cigar storage case

ကျော်ပစ်ပေးပြီး

kyaw pyit pay pyi — having tossed across; throwing something over to someone

ထောင့်တွင်ရှိသော

htaung twin shi thaw — located in the corner; situated at the corner

ညွှန်ပြလေသည်

hnwan pya le thì — pointed out; indicated; showed by pointing

ထို့နောက်

htoe nauk — after that; then; subsequently

မီးရှေ့တွင်

mi shay twin — in front of the fire; before the fireplace

ရပ်ကာ

yat ka — having stood; stopping and standing in place

သူ၏

thu yi — his; her; possessive third-person pronoun

ထူးခြားသော

htu hkyà thaw — peculiar; distinctive; unusual; remarkable

ကိုယ့်စိတ်ကိုယ်ဆန်းစစ်သည့်

ko seit ko san si thìh — self-examining; introspective; analyzing one's own mind

ပုံစံဖြင့်

pon san hpyin — in the manner of; in the style of; in a way

စေ့စေ့ကြည့်ရှုလေသည်

se se kyi shu le thì — looked carefully; observed closely and attentively

အိမ်ထောင်ရေးက

ain htaung yay ga — marriage; married life; domestic situation

သင့်ကို

thìn go — you; second-person object pronoun (polite)

ကိုက်ညီသည်

kite nyi thì — suits; fits; matches; agrees with

ဟု

hù — quotative particle; that; said (quoting speech)

မှတ်ချက်ပြုလေသည်

hmut hkyet pyu le thì — remarked; made a comment; noted an observation

ကျွန်တော်

kjəndaw — I; me; first-person pronoun used by males

ထင်ကြည့်မိတာ

htin kyi mi ta — happened to think; noticed upon reflection

မင်းကို

min go — you; second-person object pronoun (informal)

နောက်ဆုံးတွေ့ကတည်းက

nauk sone tway ga tè ga — since the last time we met; from our last meeting

မင်းအလေးချိန်

min a lay jain — your weight; how much you weigh

ခုနစ်ပေါင်းထက်

khùnit paun htet — more than seven pounds; exceeding seven pounds

တစ်ဝက်တိုးသွားပြီ

tit wet tò thwa pyi — has increased by half; grown by one half

ပြောလေသည်

pyaw le thì — said; spoke; told (past tense narrative)

ခုနစ်ပေါင်းသာ

khùnit paun tha — only seven pounds; merely seven pounds

ဖြေလေသည်

hpyay le thì — answered; replied; responded to a question

အမှန်တကယ်

a hmun ta kyè — truly; really; in fact; genuinely

နည်းနည်းပိုများသည်ဟု

nè nè po mya thì hù — that it is a little more; slightly greater amount

ထင်မိသင့်သည်

htin mi thìn thì — should think; ought to consider or believe

အနည်းငယ်သာ

a hnin ywe tha — only a little; just a small amount

ပိုများသည်ဟု

po mya thì hù — that it is more; indicating a greater quantity

ထင်မြင်မိသည်

htin myin mi thì — thought; held an opinion; perceived something

ပြီးတော့

pyi daw — and also; moreover; furthermore; besides

အလုပ်ပြန်လုပ်နေပြန်ပြီဆိုတာ

a lot pyan lot ne pyan pyi so ta — that you are back working again; resumed work

သတိပြုမိသည်

tha ti pyu mi thì — noticed; became aware of; took note of

မင်းဟာ

min ha — you (topic marker); as for you

အလုပ်ပြန်ဝင်မည်ဟု

a lot pyan win mì hù — that you would return to work; intended to work again

မပြောခဲ့ပေ

ma pyaw khè be — did not say; never mentioned; had not told

ဆိုလေသည်

so le thì — said; stated; declared (narrative past tense)

ဒါဆိုရင်

da so yin — if so; then; in that case

မင်းဘယ်လိုသိသလဲ

min be lo thi tha lè — how do you know; by what means did you know

မေးလေသည်

may le thì — asked; inquired; posed a question

မြင်သည်

myin thì — sees; perceives; observes; can see

နိဂုံးချုပ်သည်

ni gone chot thì — concludes; deduces; reaches a conclusion

မကြာသေးမီကပင်

ma kya tho mi ga bin — just very recently; not long ago at all

အလွန်စိုရွှဲနေကြောင်းနှင့်

a lùn so shwè ne kyaun hnin — and that it was very wet; extremely soaked condition

မင်းတွင်

min twin — you have; in your possession; with you

အလွန်အဆင်မပြေပြီး

a lùn a sin ma pyay pyi — very inconvenient; extremely troublesome; quite difficult

မသေချာမသတိမဲ့သော

ma the hkya ma tha ti mè thaw — careless and unreliable; inattentive and untrustworthy

အိမ်အကူမိန်းကလေးတစ်ဦးရှိကြောင်း

ain a ku mein ga lay tit u shi kyaun — that there is one female house helper; a maid

ကျွန်တော်ဘယ်လိုသိသနည်း

kjəndaw be lo thi tha nè — how do I know; by what means would I know

ကျွန်တော်ချစ်သော

kjəndaw chit thaw — my dear; beloved by me; whom I love

ဒါဟာ

da ha — this is; that is; it is (topic emphasis)

လွန်ကဲလွန်းသည်

lùn kè lùn thì — goes too far; is excessive; is extreme

ရာစုနှစ်အနည်းငယ်က

ya su hnit a hnin ywe ga — a few centuries ago; some hundreds of years past

အသက်ရှင်ခဲ့မည်ဆိုလျှင်

a thet shin khè mì so hlyin — if you had lived; had you been alive then

မင်းဧကန်မုချ

min e kan mu hkya — you certainly; you would definitely; without doubt you

မီးရှို့ခံရမည်ဆိုတာ

mi sho khàn ya mì so ta — that you would be burned; burned at the stake

သေချာပေသည်

the hkya pe thì — is certain; is definite; for sure; no doubt

ကျွန်တော်ဟာ

kjəndaw ha — as for me; I (with topic emphasis particle)

ကြာသပတေးနေ့တွင်

kya tha pa tay nay twin — on Thursday; during Thursday (day of the week)

နယ်ပြင်လမ်းလျှောက်ကာ

nè pyin lan shauk ka — having walked through the countryside; strolling outdoors

အိမ်သို့

ain thoe — to the house; toward home; homeward

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyauk met hpwè — dreadful; frightful; terrible; horrifying

ညစ်ပတ်သောအခြေအနေဖြင့်

nyit pat thaw a hkye a ne hpyin — in a dirty filthy condition; in a messy state

ပြန်လာခဲ့သည်ဆိုသည်မှာ

pyan la khè thì so thì hma — the fact that you returned; that you came back

မှန်သော်လည်း

hmun thaw lè — although true; even though that is correct

အဝတ်အစားလဲထားပြီးဖြစ်ရာ

a wut a sa lè hta pyi hpyit ya — having already changed clothes; clothes were changed

မင်းဘယ်လို

min be lo — how do you; by what method; in what way you

နိဂုံးချုပ်သည်ကို

ni gone chot thì go — your conclusion; the deduction (as object)

မစဉ်းစားနိုင်ပေ

ma sin sa naing be — cannot imagine; unable to figure out or think of

သူမသည်

thu ma thì — she; third-person female subject pronoun

ပြုပြင်၍မရသော

pyu pyin yway ma ya thaw — incorrigible; cannot be fixed or reformed

သူဖြစ်ပြီး

thu hpyit pyi — being that kind of person; being such a one

ကျွန်တော့်ဇနီးသည်

kjəndaw za ni thì — my wife; the speaker's spouse (female)

သူမကို

thu ma go — her; third-person female object pronoun

အသိပေးပြီးဖြစ်သော်လည်း

a thi pay pyi hpyit thaw lè — although already informed; even though notified already

ထိုနေရာတွင်လည်း

hto ne ya twin lè — also in that place; at that location too

မင်းဘယ်လိုရှာဖွေသည်ကို

min be lo sha hpwe thì go — how you found out; by what means you searched

မမြင်နိုင်ပေ

ma myin naing be — cannot see; unable to perceive or understand

သူ့ဘာသာသူ

thu batha thu — to himself/herself; on their own; by themselves

ကြည်နူးစွာ

kyi nu zwa — with delight; pleasurably; with satisfaction and joy

ရယ်မောကာ

yè maw ka — having laughed; laughing heartily; chuckling

ရှည်လျားသော

shè lya thaw — long; lengthy; elongated

စိတ်တိုတတ်သည့်

seit to tat thìh — quick-tempered; easily irritated; prone to impatience

လက်များကို

let mya go — the hands; fingers; hands (as object)

တစ်ဖက်နှင့်တစ်ဖက်

tit hpet hnin tit hpet — one side with the other; back and forth together

ပွတ်တိုက်လေသည်

pwut tite le thì — rubbed together; chafed; rubbing one against another