The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Page 3

Vocabulary

ကျွန်မ

kyun ma — First-person pronoun used by females (I/me).

သိတယ်

thi deh — To know something; expressing knowledge or awareness.

ဟာ

ha — Colloquial topic marker or mild exclamation particle.

ငါတို့

nga doh — We/us; first-person plural pronoun, informal usage.

နှစ်ယောက်

hnit yout — Two people; classifier counting two persons.

အတွက်

ah twet — For the sake of; on behalf of someone or something.

အပြစ်

ah pyit — Sin, fault, or wrongdoing; blame attributed to someone.

နဲ့

neh — And; with; conjunction linking nouns or clauses.

ဝေဒနာ

way da na — Suffering, pain, or anguish experienced emotionally or physically.

တွေ

tweh — Plural marker indicating multiple items or people.

ကို

ko — Accusative/directional particle marking object or direction.

စုဆောင်း

su hsaung — To collect, gather, or accumulate things over time.

နေတာ

nay da — Ongoing action particle; indicates a continuing state or action.

ပဲ

peh — Emphatic or limiting particle meaning only, just, indeed.

သူ့

thu. — His/her/its; possessive or object form of third person.

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within; locative particle indicating interior location.

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle indicating place or position.

မကောင်း

ma kaung — Not good; bad, unpleasant, or morally wrong.

တဲ့

deh — Quotative or relative clause particle linking descriptions attributively.

နတ်ဆိုး

nat hsoe — Evil spirit or malevolent supernatural being; demon.

ကြီး

ji — Big, large, great; adjective indicating large size or seniority.

ပြည့်နှက်

pyeh hnyet — To be filled with; saturated or permeated completely.

နေတယ်

nay deh — Ongoing present tense marker; currently doing or being.

ဒါပေမဲ့

da pay meh — However, but, nevertheless; contrastive conjunction between clauses.

ကြည့်ပါဦး

kyi ba oun — Please look; polite imperative requesting attention or observation.

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third-person singular pronoun.

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive particle or mild assertive sentence-final particle.

ကွယ်လွန်

kweh lun — To pass away, die; euphemistic expression for death.

သွားတဲ့

thwa deh — Went; past action relative clause particle indicating completion.

ညီမ

nyi ma — Younger sister; female sibling younger than the speaker.

သား

tha — Son; male offspring; also used as a softening particle.

ကလေး

ka lay — Child, baby; young person or small creature.

ဒုက္ခ

dote kha — Suffering, hardship, trouble; dukkha in Buddhist terminology.

ပေးစရာ

pay sa ya — Something to give; reason or need to give something.

ဘယ်လို

beh lo — How, in what way; interrogative asking manner or method.

နည်း

nee — Method, way; also interrogative particle asking how or what.

မဆို

ma hsoe — Whatever, any kind of; inclusive particle meaning regardless of type.

ရိုက်နှက်

yite hnyet — To beat, strike, or physically assault someone violently.

ဖို့

hpo — Purpose or intention particle meaning in order to, for.

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, intention; inner mental or emotional state.

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist; there is none; absence of something.

ဘူး

bu — Negative past or emphatic negation particle in sentences.

လွှတ်

hlut — To release, let go, set free someone or something.

ပေးတိုင်း

pay tine — Every time (something) is given; whenever given occurs.

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit dut — Morale, spirit, mental attitude; psychological strength or disposition.

က

ka — Subject marker particle; also indicates source or agent.

နာကျင်

na jin — To hurt, feel pain; physical or emotional suffering.

တယ်

deh — Present/simple tense sentence-final assertive particle.

ရိုက်

yite — To hit, strike, beat; physical action of striking.

တိုင်း

tine — Every time, whenever; distributive particle meaning each instance.

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well; additive conjunctive particle.

အိုမင်း

o min — Old, aged; describing elderly or advanced age.

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — Heart; the emotional core or innermost feeling of someone.

ခွဲ

khweh — To separate, divide, split apart; surgical operation also.

သွားမတတ်

thwa ma tat — About to go; on the verge of departing uncontrollably.

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen; existential or resultative verb.

ဒီတော့

di taw — Therefore, so then; consequential transition word.

မိန်းမ

main ma — Woman, wife, female adult person.

ထံ

htun — To, toward a person; directional particle indicating recipient.

မှ

hma — From, only then; source marker or emphatic conditional particle.

မွေးဖွားသော

mway hpwa thaw — Born; relative clause form describing one who was born.

သည်

thi — Formal subject marker or present tense particle in writing.

အသက်ရှိ

ah thet shi — To be alive; having life or vital existence.

သည့်

thi. — Formal relative clause marker linking noun and modifier.

ကာလ

ka la — Period, era, time span; a duration or age of time.

တိုတောင်း

to taung — Short, brief; describing something of little length or duration.

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done; sequential or completive particle.

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of; instrumental or manner particle.

ပြည့်

pyeh — Full, complete, filled; indicating fullness or completeness.

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning thus said or as stated formally.

သမ္မာကျမ်းစာ

tha ma kyan za — The Holy Bible; sacred Christian scripture.

ဆို

hsoe — To say, speak; quotative verb or conditional particle.

ထားတဲ့

hta deh — That which has been placed or kept; past resultative.

အတိုင်း

ah tine — According to, as per; following a stated manner or rule.

ယုံကြည်

youn kyi — To believe, trust, have faith in someone or something.

ဒီ

di — This, these; proximal demonstrative pronoun or adjective.

ညနေ

nya nway — Evening, late afternoon; time of day before nightfall.

ကျောင်း

kyaung — School, monastery; place of learning or Buddhist study.

ပျက်

pyit — To break, be destroyed, fail; something ruined or broken.

ပေးဖို့

pay hpo — In order to give; purpose-marked giving action.

မနက်ဖြန်

ma net hpyan — Tomorrow; the day following today.

အလုပ်

ah lote — Work, job, task, employment; something requiring effort.

လုပ်

lote — To do, make, perform; general action verb.

ခိုင်း

khine — To order, instruct, direct someone to do something.

ရတော့

ya taw — So then (one) gets or can; resultative transition particle.

ကောင်လေး

kaung lay — Boy, young male; informal term for a young man.

အားလပ်ရက်

ah lat yit — Day off, holiday, free day from work or school.

ခံစား

khan za — To feel, experience, endure an emotion or sensation.

နေ

nay — To live, stay, be; continuous aspect or residential verb.

ကြတဲ့

kya deh — Plural relative clause particle indicating shared past action.

စနေနေ့

sa nay neh — Saturday; the sixth day of the week.

အလွန်

ah lun — Very, extremely, excessively; intensifier adverb of degree.

ခက်

khet — Difficult, hard, challenging; describing something not easily done.

တခြား

ta khya — Other, another, different; referring to something else entirely.

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking for identification of something.

မုန်း

moun — To hate, detest, feel strong dislike for someone.

သလောက်

tha lout — As much as; comparative particle indicating equivalent degree.

ထက်

htet — More than, above; comparative particle indicating superiority.

ပို

po — More, even more; adverb indicating greater degree or amount.

အပေါ်

ah pay — On, above, upon; also toward someone in relational terms.

တာဝန်

ta wun — Responsibility, duty, obligation assigned to a person.

တချို့

ta cho — Some, certain ones; referring to an unspecified subset.

ထမ်းဆောင်

htun hsaung — To carry out, fulfill, discharge a duty or responsibility.

ရမယ်

ya meh — Must get, will receive; obligatory future tense marker.

မဟုတ်

ma hote — Is not, are not; negation of identity or existence.

ရင်

yin — If, when; conditional particle expressing hypothetical situation.

ဖျက်ဆီး

hpyet hsi — To destroy, ruin, demolish; causing complete destruction of something.

သွားမယ်

thwa meh — Will go; future tense form of going away.

တကယ်

ta kyeh — Really, truly, genuinely; emphatic adverb asserting truth.

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker indicating completed action some time ago.

အရမ်း

ah yan — Very, extremely, terribly; colloquial intensifier of degree.

ကောင်းတဲ့

kaung deh — Good, fine, nice; relative clause form describing positive quality.

အချိန်

ah chain — Time, period, moment; a specific or general point in time.

ဖြတ်သန်း

hpyat thun — To pass through, go through a period or experience.

ညစာ

nya za — Dinner, evening meal; food eaten in the evening.

မတိုင်

ma tine — Before reaching; not yet arrived at a point or time.

ခင်

khin — Before, prior to; temporal particle indicating precedence.

အသေးစား

ah thway za — Small-scale, minor, petty; of little importance or size.

ဂျင်း

jin — Jeans; denim trousers; borrowed word from English.

နောက်

nout — Behind, after, next; temporal or spatial positional word.

တစ်နေ့

tit neh — One day; referring to a single day or someday future.

ထင်း

htin — Firewood; wood used as fuel for burning or cooking.

များ

mya — Many, much, plural; indicating large quantity or plurality.

လှဲ

hleh — To lie down, fall over; reclining or collapsing posture.

မီးကျောက်

mi kyout — Coal; a black mineral fuel used for burning and energy.

ရာ

ya — Classifier for persons; also indicating approximately or around.

ကူညီ

ku nyi — To help, assist, support someone in need.

အချိန်မှီ

ah chain hmi — On time, in time; arriving or completing before deadline.

မှီ

hmi — To reach, arrive in time; to depend on or rely upon.

အိမ်

ain — House, home; residential building or place of dwelling.

ပြန်

pyan — To return, go back; also used as a repetitive marker.

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach a destination or place.

အနည်းဆုံး

ah nee hsoun — At least, minimum; the smallest acceptable amount or number.

တော့

taw — Topic-shifting or conclusive particle; then, now, as for.

လေးပုံ

lay pone — Four portions/parts; one of four equal divisions.

သုံးပုံ

thoun pone — Three portions/parts; three-quarters or three equal shares.

စဉ်

sin — During, while, in the course of a period or process.

စွန့်စား

sun za — To take a risk, dare, venture into something dangerous.

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns or cases.

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, tell; general verb of verbal communication.

နိုင်

nine — To be able to, can; potential or ability marker.

အောင်

aung — In order to succeed; purposive particle or success marker.

ညီ

nyi — Younger brother; male sibling younger than the speaker.

မှန်ကန်

mhan kan — Correct, right, accurate; being true or proper in fact.

တာ

da — Nominalizer or sentence-final particle softening assertion.

ကတော့

ka taw — As for, speaking of; topic-marking contrastive particle.

ပိုင်း

pine — Section, part, division; also classifier for segments of time.

ထင်းစု

htin su — To gather firewood; collecting wood for fuel or burning.

ကောက်ယူ

kout yu — To pick up, collect, gather items from the ground.

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix creating abstract nouns from verb phrases.

ပြီးဆုံး

pyi hsoun — To finish completely, conclude, come to an end entirely.

သွားပြီ

thwa pyi — Has already gone; past completive indicating departure finished.

အဘယ်

ah beh — Why, what reason; formal interrogative asking cause or reason.

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to; causal particle indicating reason.

ဆိုသော်

hsoe thaw — If one says, as for saying; formal conditional quotative.

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tite hseit — Silent, quiet, still; absence of noise or activity.

ကြံရာ

khan ya — Plan, scheme, contrivance; a place or means of plotting.

ပေးတဲ့

pay deh — That which gives or gave; relative clause of giving.

အလေ့အကျင့်

ah leh ah kyin — Habit, custom, practice; regular behavioral pattern or routine.

မျိုး

myo — Kind, type, sort; classifier for species or variety.