The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Page 2

Vocabulary

ဘာမှ

ba hma — nothing, not anything at all

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hout bu — is not, negation of 'to be'

သင့်

shin. — your (polite second person possessive)

လက်တွေ

let twe — hands (plural, colloquial)

ကို

ko — object marker particle; to, toward

ကြည့်

kyi. — to look, to watch, to observe

ပါ

pa — polite sentence particle; also, too

ပါးစပ်

par zat — mouth (as body part)

လည်း

leare — also, too, as well (particle)

ဒါ

da — this, this thing (demonstrative pronoun)

ဘာ

ba — what (interrogative word)

လဲ

leare — question particle; or, either

မသိ

ma thi — to not know, to be unaware

ပါဘူး

pa bu — polite negative sentence-final particle

အဒေါ်

a daw — aunt (father's or mother's sister)

ကောင်းပြီ

kaung pyi — okay, good, alright (expression of agreement)

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first person pronoun)

တော့

taw — topic/contrast particle; then, now

သိ

thi — to know, to understand, to be aware

တယ်

deare — assertive sentence-final particle (present/past)

သစ်သီး

thit thi — fruit (generic term for all fruits)

သကြားချက်

tha kjar chet — candy, confectionery, sweet cooked treat

ပဲ

beare — only, just, emphasis particle

ဖြစ်

phyit — to be, to become, to happen

နှစ်လေးဆယ်

hnit lay zeare — forty years (number plus time unit)

ကြိမ်

kjim — time(s), occurrence, instance (counter word)

လောက်

lout — about, approximately, enough (particle)

ပြော

pyaw — to speak, to say, to talk

ဖူး

phu — experiential particle; ever done something

ဒီ

di — this, here (proximal demonstrative)

မထား

ma htar — to not keep, not place, not maintain

ဘူး

bu — negative sentence-final particle (plain register)

ဆို

so — to say, quote marker, conditional 'if'

ရင်

yin — if, when (conditional clause particle)

ရိုက်

yite — to hit, to beat, to strike

မယ်

meare — future tense particle; will, going to

လို့

lo. — because, so that, quotation particle

ကြိုး

kjo — rope, string, cord, wire

ငါ့ဆီ

nga. zi — to me, at my place (informal)

ပေး

pay — to give; directional particle (benefactive)

လိုက်

lite — to follow; directional/completive verb particle

သည်

thin — formal present tense / topic marker particle

လေထဲ

lay deare — in the air, into the atmosphere

တွင်

twin — in, at, within (formal locative particle)

လှူပ်ရှား

hlote shar — to move, to be active, to stir

နေ

nay — to live, to stay; continuative particle

အန္တရာယ်

an ta yay — danger, hazard, peril, threat

ဆိုးရွား

so ywar — terrible, severe, awful, very bad

လှ

hla — beautiful, pretty, attractive

အမေ့

a may. — mother's (possessive form of 'mother')

နောက်

nout — behind, next, after, last

အဖွားအို

a phwar o — grandmother, old woman (respectful term)

လှည့်

hlan. — to turn, to rotate, to spin around

ကာ

kar — while, as (simultaneous action particle)

သူမ

thu ma — she, her (third person feminine pronoun)

၏

i — formal possessive/genitive particle (literary)

စကတ်

sa kat — skirt (item of clothing)

မှ

hma — from, only then (particle of origin/emphasis)

ဆွဲ

zwe — to pull, to drag, to draw

ခွာ

khwa — to leave, to separate, to detach from

ကလေးငယ်

ka ley ngeare — small child, little kid, young child

ချက်ချင်း

chet chin — immediately, right away, at once

ပြေး

pyay — to run, to flee, to escape

မြင့်

myint. — high, tall, elevated

သော

thaw — relative clause marker (formal/literary)

သစ်သား

thit thar — wood, timber (material)

တံတိုင်း

tan tine — wall, fence, barrier

တက်

tet — to climb, to go up, to ascend

ကျော်

kjaw — to pass over, to cross, to exceed

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyout kweare — to disappear, to vanish, to be lost

သွား

thwar — to go; perfective/directional verb particle

လေ

lay — air, wind; mild assertive particle

သူ

thu — he, she, him, her (third person pronoun)

တစ်ခဏ

tit kha na — a moment, a brief instant

အံ့အားသင့်

an ar thin. — to be astonished, amazed, surprised

စွာ

zwar — adverbial particle (manner suffix, formally)

ရပ်

yat — to stop, to halt, to stand still

ထို့နောက်

hto. nout — after that, then, subsequently

သာယာ

tha ya — pleasant, comfortable, enjoyable, peaceful

အပြုံး

a pyun — a smile (noun form)

တစ်ချက်

tit chet — once, one time, one strike/moment

ဖြင့်

phyin. — with, by means of (instrumental particle)

ရယ်မော

yeare maw — to laugh, to laugh out loud

ကောင်လေး

kaung lay — boy, young boy (informal term)

ရာ

ya — hundred; general noun suffix/classifier

ဘယ်တော့

beare taw — when (interrogative about time)

မသင်ယူ

ma thin yu — to not learn, to not study

နိုင်

nine — can, to be able to, capable of

လား

lar — yes/no question particle

ဒီလို

di lo — like this, in this way

ကစား

ka zar — to play, to engage in play or games

တာ

tar — nominalizer particle; that which, the fact that

မတိုင်

ma tine — before reaching, not yet arriving at

ခင်

khin — before (time); to be close/friendly with

က

ga — subject/agent marker particle

တည်းက

de ga — since (a time in the past), from then

သတိ

tha ti — awareness, mindfulness, caution, attention

ထား

htar — to keep, to place; resultative verb particle

ရ

ya — to get, to obtain; can, permissible

မှာ

hmar — at, in, on (locative particle); to order

မဟုတ်

ma hout — is not, not (negation of 'to be')

ပေမဲ့

pay meare. — but, however, although, even so

အသက်

a thet — age; life, breath, one's lifespan

ကြီး

kji — big, large, great, senior

တဲ့

deare. — reported speech/hearsay particle (colloquial)

မိုက်မဲ

mite meare — stupid, foolish, ignorant, dull-witted

အမိုက်

a mite — foolishness, stupidity (noun form)

ဆုံး

zone — to end, to finish; most (superlative suffix)

ခွေး

khway — dog (common domestic animal)

အသစ်

a thit — new, fresh, brand new

တန်ဆာ

tan zar — jewelry, ornament, accessories, adornment

များ

mya — many, much, plural marker

သင်

thin — you (polite second person pronoun)

မရ

ma ya — cannot, unable to, impermissible

စကားပုံ

za gar pone — proverb, saying, idiom, figure of speech

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one (thing), a single item

အတိုင်း

a tine — according to, as, in accordance with

ပေါ့

paw. — light (not heavy); softening/casual particle

ကောင်းကင်

kaung kin — sky, heaven, the heavens above

ဘုရား

pha yar — Buddha; god, deity; pagoda (honorific)

ဟာ

har — thing, item; topic/emphasis particle

နှစ်ရက်

hnit yet — two days (duration of time)

မဆင်တူ

ma sin tu — not similar, not alike, different from

ဘဲ

beare — without doing; emphatic particle

ဆော့

saw. — to play (especially children playing)

တတ်

tat — to be able to habitually; to tend to do

ဘယ်

beare — where, which (interrogative); left direction

မဆို

ma so — any, whatever, whichever (universal particle)

မလာ

ma lar — to not come, did not come

မည်

myi — future tense marker (formal/literary)

ဘယ်လို

beare lo — how, in what way (interrogative)

မလဲ

ma leare — interrogative negative particle (why not?)

မချင်း

ma chin — until (not yet reaching a point)

နှယ်

hneare — like, as if, resembling (comparison particle)

ငါ့

nga. — my, mine (informal first person possessive)

နှိပ်စက်

hnit set — to oppress, to torture, to persecute

ပုံ

pone — picture, image, shape, form

ထပ်

htat — again, repeatedly; floor/story of building

ပြီး

pyi — already done; and then, after doing

တစ်မိနစ်

tit mi nit — one minute (unit of time)

ရှောင်ချ

shoun kja — to avoid, to evade, to dodge intentionally

ဒါမှမဟုတ်

da hma ma hout — or else, otherwise, alternatively

စေ

say — to cause, to make (causative particle)

အားလုံး

ar lone — everyone, everything, all of them

ကျ

kja — to fall, to drop, to descend; to fail

ဆင်း

sin — to go down, to descend, to get off

သူ့

thu. — his, her (third person possessive)

မလုပ်

ma lote — to not do, did not do

အတွက်

a twet — for, for the sake of, because of

တာဝန်

tar wan — responsibility, duty, obligation

မထမ်းဆောင်

ma htan zaung — to not fulfill, to not carry out duty

ဘုရားသခင်

pha yar tha khin — God (Christian usage, Lord God)

အမှန်တရား

a hmun ta yar — truth, reality, the true facts

သာ

tha — only, just; pleasant (suffix); may (optative)

ကြံ

khan — to plan, to scheme, to devise

ကိုင်

kine — to hold, to grasp, to handle

ချွေတာ

chway tar — to save, to be thrifty, to economize

ကလေး

ka ley — child, children, kid

ဖျက်ဆီး

pyet zi — to destroy, to demolish, to ruin

သမ္မာကျမ်းစာ

tha ma kjan zar — the Holy Bible, sacred scripture