The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Page 6

Vocabulary

ဥပမာ

u-pa-ma — Example; used to illustrate a point

အားဖြင့်

a-hpyin — By means of; through; via

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; indicates the subject

အခန်း

a-khan — Room; chapter; compartment

ဆီသို့

hsì-thó — Toward; in the direction of

ခန်းမ

khan-ma — Hall; large meeting or assembly room

မှ

hma — From; starting point marker particle

တက်

tat — To go up; to ascend; to attend

သွား

thwá — To go; to travel away from speaker

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which

လှေကား

hlè-ká — Staircase; flight of stairs

ထစ်

htit — Step; rung of a staircase

များ

myá — Plural marker; many; more

ကို

gò — Object marker particle; toward; at

မကြာခဏ

ma-kjà-hka-na — Often; frequently; many times

မြင်

mjin — To see; to observe; to perceive visually

ဖူး

phu — Experiential particle; indicates past experience

ပါ

pà — Polite particle; also means 'please'

ပေါ့

paw — Softening particle; isn't it; light tone

ဘယ်

bè — Where; which; what (question word)

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

ကြိမ်

kjein — Time; occurrence; counter for repetitions

လောက်

laut — About; approximately; enough

အင်း

in — Yes; affirmative response; I see

တစ်

tit — One; a; an (numeral/article)

ရာ

yà — Hundred; general classifier particle

ချီ

chì — Approximately; amounting to; in the range of

ရှိ

shì — To exist; to have; to be present

တယ်

dè — Sentence-final assertion particle; indicates statement

ဒါ

dà — This; that; this thing

ဆို

hsò — To say; to mean; quotation marker

ရင်

yin — Conditional particle; if; when

လဲ

lè — Question particle; also; as well

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; don't

သိ

thì — To know; to understand; to be aware

ဘူး

bù — Negative particle; not ever; never done

သေချာ

thè-chà — Certain; sure; definitely; carefully

စွာ

swà — Adverb-forming suffix; -ly; in a manner

လေ့လာ

lèh-la — To study; to learn; to investigate

ထား

htá — To put; to place; to keep (for future)

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense particle; did; went away

သို့

thó — To; toward; directional particle

သော်

thaw — Although; but; concessive conjunction

တော့

daw — Then; now; well (topic-shift particle)

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; by

ပဲ

bè — Only; just; restrictive emphasis particle

ကျွန်တော်

kjùn-daw — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun)

ပြော

pjaw — To speak; to say; to tell

ချင်

chín — To want; to desire; desiderative particle

တာ

dà — Nominalizer; the fact that; thing that

အခု

a-khu — Now; at this moment; currently

ဆယ့်

hsèh — Ten-plus; prefix for teens (11–19)

ခုနစ်

khu-nit — Seven; the number seven

ကြောင်း

kjáun — That (complementizer); reason; cause

အဘယ်

a-bè — What; which; why (formal/literary)

ကြောင့်

kjáun-hmá — Because; due to; reason particle

ရုံ

yòun — Hall; building; only; merely

သာ

thà — Only; just; emphatic restrictive particle

မက

ma-ga — Not only; beyond; more than

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to happen

ထို

htó — That; those (demonstrative, formal/literary)

တပါး

ta-pá — Other; another; besides

ဤ

ì — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

ကဲ့သို့

kèh-thó — Like; similar to; as if

သေး

thé — Yet; still; additionally (particle)

ငယ်

ngè — Small; young; little

ပြဿနာ

pya-tha-na — Problem; issue; trouble

စိတ်ဝင်စား

seit-win-sá — Interested; fascinating; to be interested in

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

၏

è — Possessive particle; of (formal/literary)

အသေး

a-thé — Small; tiny; minor; in detail

အဖွဲ

a-hpwè — Group; organization; association

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-twèh-a-kjoun — Experience; practical knowledge gained firsthand

တစ်ချို့

tit-chó — Some; certain; a few things or people

မှတ်တမ်း

hmat-tan — Record; documentation; official record

တင်

tin — To submit; to present; to place on

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

လုံလောက်

loun-laut — Sufficient; enough; adequate

အောင်

áun — In order to achieve; successfully; to pass

ကြင်နာ

kjin-na — Kind; caring; compassionate; affectionate

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; item

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well; even

နိုင်

nain — Can; able to; to be capable

သူ

thu — He; she; they; third-person pronoun

စားပွဲ

sá-bwè — Table; dining table

ပေါ်

páw — On top of; above; surface

တွင်

twin — In; at; inside (locative particle)

ဖွင့်

hpwin — To open; to turn on; to unlock

ထူ

htù — Thick; dense; to stand upright

ပန်းရောင်

pan-yaun — Pink color; rose-colored

သမန်

tha-man — Ordinary; common; usual

မှတ်စု

hmat-su — Notes; memo; notebook jottings

စာရွက်

sa-ywet — Paper; sheet of paper

ရွက်

ywet — Leaf; sheet; page

ပစ်

pit — To throw; to shoot; to discard

ပေး

pé — To give; to provide; to allow

လိုက်

lait — To follow; to accompany; directional particle

ဟာ

hà — Thing; that (colloquial topic marker)

နောက်ဆုံး

naut-zòun — Last; final; at the end

စာပို့

sa-pó — Letter; mail; to send a letter

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by; using; instrumental particle

ရောက်

yaut — To arrive; to reach a destination

လာ

là — To come; directional verb particle

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle; saying that (formal)

ကျယ်

kjè — Wide; broad; loud; spacious

လောင်

láun — To burn; to be on fire

ဖတ်

hpat — To read; to recite aloud

စာ

sa — Letter; writing; text; lesson

ရက်စွဲ

yet-zwè — Date; calendar date

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; instead of; particle of contrast

လက်မှတ်

let-hmat — Signature; ticket; certificate

လိပ်စာ

leit-sa — Address; postal address

ပေ

pè — Foot (measurement); also assertion particle

ယနေ့

ya-né — Today; this day

ည

nya — Night; evening

ရှစ်

shit — Eight; the number eight

နာရီ

na-yì — Hour; clock; watch

တိုင်

tain — Until; up to; to complain; post/pole

မီ

mì — Before; in time for; to reach

ရေး

yé — To write; to compose

လေးဆယ့်

lè-hsèh — Forty-plus; prefix for forties

ငါး

ngá — Five; also fish

မိနစ်

mi-nit — Minute; unit of time

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; a period of time

သင့်

thinˈ — Your; suitable; appropriate; ought to

ထံ

htan — To; at (a person's location); near

ကာ

kà — While doing; connective particle; barrier

အလွန်

a-lun — Very; extremely; excessively

အရေး

a-yé — Importance; matter; concern; urgency

ကြီး

kjì — Big; large; great; senior

လှ

hlà — Beautiful; pretty; attractive

ကိစ္စ

krit-sa — Matter; affair; issue; business

ရပ်

yat — To stop; to halt; neighborhood

အကြောင်း

a-kjáun — About; regarding; reason; cause

တိုင်ပင်

tain-bin — To consult; to discuss; to confer with

ပြောဆို

pjaw-hsò — To speak; to discuss; to converse

လို

ló — To need; to want; like; as

မိုက်

mait — Foolish; stupid (colloquial); mic

မဲ

mè — Vote; dark color; ballot

ဦး

ú — Mr.; head; first; classifier for people

မည်

myì — Future tense particle; will; shall (formal)

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — To describe; to show; to indicate

ဥရောပ

u-yaw-pa — Europe; the European continent

နန်းတော်

nan-daw — Royal palace; king's palace

မင်း

min — King; ruler; you (informal)

အိမ်တော်

ein-daw — Royal residence; palace house

ခု

khu — Now; general classifier for objects

အား

á — Object marker; strength; free time

မကြာ

ma-kjà — Soon; not long; in a short time

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-lout — To do; to make; to perform

ဝန်ဆောင်မှု

wun-hsáun-hmú — Service; hospitality; customer service

လွန်ကဲ

lun-kè — Excessive; too much; extreme

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; receive

လုံခြုံ

loun-choun — Safe; secure; protected

စိတ်ချ

seit-cha — To trust; to feel reassured; confident

အပ်နှံ

at-hnan — To entrust; to deposit; to hand over

ထင်ရှား

htin-shá — Famous; prominent; notable; clear

စေ

sé — To cause; to make; causative particle

သတင်း

tha-din — News; information; message

အချက်အလက်

a-chet-a-let — Information; facts; data; details

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjùn-nou-dó — We; us (formal first-person plural)

နေရာ

né-ya — Place; location; spot; position

ပေါင်းစုံ

páun-zòun — Comprehensive; all-inclusive; combined total

နေ

né — To live; to stay; to be (present)

မျက်နှာ

myet-hna — Face; expression; front surface

ဖုံး

hpòun — To cover; to hide; phone (short form)

တပ်

tat — To attach; to install; military unit

ကျေနပ်

kjè-nat — Satisfied; content; pleased

တကယ့်

ta-kèh — Really; truly; genuinely; indeed

လျှို့ဝှက်

hsho-hwet — Secret; hidden; confidential

ဆန်းကြယ်

hsan-kjè — Wonderful; amazing; extraordinary; miraculous

မှု

hmú — Nominalizer suffix; act of; matter of

ပင်

bin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle; tree

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chet — Comment; remark; annotation; note

ပြု

pyu — To do; to make; to perform (formal)