The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Page 5

Vocabulary

ထိုအခါ

hto a-hka — at that time, then, at that moment

သူမ၏

thu-ma i — her, belonging to her (possessive)

စိတ်ထဲတွင်

sate hte dwin — inside the mind, within one's heart

အတွေးသစ်တစ်ခု

a-twe thit ta-hku — a new thought, one new idea

ပေါ်လာသည်။

paw la thì — appeared, emerged, came up

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first-person pronoun)

ချုပ်

choat — to sew, tailor; also to suppress or control

ထားတဲ့

hta deh — that has been kept or placed (relative marker)

ရှပ်

shaat — shirt (colloquial shortened form)

အင်္ကျီ

ain-ji — shirt, top garment worn on the upper body

လည်ပတ်

le-bat — collar, neckband of a shirt or garment

ကို

go — object marker particle; to, toward

ဖြုတ်

phyoat — to remove, detach, take off (clothing, etc.)

ပြီး

pyi — after, having done; finished, completed

ခေါင်း

gaung — head; also leader or top of something

ပေါ်

paw — on top of, above, upon a surface

ရေ

yay — water; also a sentence-final friendly particle

သွန်

thwan — to pour out, to tip out liquid

ဖျန်းဖို့

pyan hpo — to spray, to sprinkle water or liquid

မ

ma — negative prefix; no, not (negation marker)

လို

lo — to need, want; like, similar to

တဲ့

deh — informal relative clause particle; that, which

ဟုတ်

hoat — yes, correct, true, that is right

လား

la — question particle indicating yes/no question

ဂျာကင်

ja-kin — jacket, outer coat worn over clothing

ခေါ့

khaw — to call, summon; also a casual calling particle

ဖွင့်

phwin — to open, turn on, unzip, unlock something

၏

i — possessive/genitive particle; of, belonging to

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — face, facial expression, countenance

မှ

hma — from, at, only then (conditional/source particle)

စိုးရိမ်

so-yim — to worry, be anxious, feel apprehensive

ပူပန်

pu-pan — to be worried, troubled, mentally distressed

မှု

hmu — nominalizer suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs

ပျောက်

pyout — to disappear, get lost, vanish

ကွယ်

kwè — to vanish, pass away; out of sight

သွားသည်

thwa thì — went, has gone (past tense marker)

သူ

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

သည်

thì — present tense verb particle; formal sentence marker

မိမိ

mi-mi — oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

လှစ်

hlat — to flip open, peel back, open upward

လိုက်

lite — to follow; directional verb complement (along, away)

ခိုင်မာ

khine-ma — firm, strong, solid, steadfast, resolute

စွာ

swa — adverbial suffix meaning 'in a ... manner'

ထား

hta — to place, keep, put; maintain a state

ဆဲ

se — still, yet, continuing to do something

ဖြစ်

phyit — to be, to become, to happen, to occur

ဒုက္ခ

doat-kha — suffering, hardship, trouble, misery, distress

ပေးတဲ့

pay deh — that gives, that causes (relative clause form)

ကောင်

kaung — guy, fellow (informal, sometimes derogatory)

ကဲ

ke — well, so, come on (exclamatory particle)

သွား

thwa — to go; directional complement indicating movement away

တော့

taw — now, then, well (topic-shifting sentence particle)

မင်း

min — you (informal/familiar second-person pronoun)

ကျောင်း

kyaung — school, educational institution, monastery

ပျက်

pyat — to break, be ruined, damaged, destroyed

ကူး

ku — to cross over; to transfer, copy, spread

နေတယ်

nay deh — is doing, staying, continuing (present continuous)

ဆိုတာ

so ta — what is called, the thing known as

သေချာ

thay-ja — certain, sure, definite, for certain

ပြီ

pyi — already, done; sentence-final completion particle

လို့

lo — so, because, saying that (complementizer particle)

ထင်

htin — to think, believe, suppose, assume

ထားတာ

hta ta — the act of having kept or maintained something

ဒါပေမဲ့

da-pay-meh — but, however, nevertheless, even so

ခွင့်

khwin — permission, forgiveness; right, opportunity to do

လွှတ်

hlwat — to release, let go, forgive, set free

တယ်

deh — informal present/past tense sentence-final particle

ဟာ

ha — thing, that (informal noun/topic marker particle)

ဆိုရိုး

so-yo — proverb, saying, traditional adage

စကား

za-ga — word, speech, language, conversation

အတိုင်း

a-tine — according to, as per, in accordance with

မီး

mi — fire, flame, light, electricity

ရှို့

sho — to burn, scorch, set fire to

ခံ

khan — to endure, bear, undergo, receive (something)

ကြောင်

kyaung — cat; also dazed, confused (informal adjective)

ပြင်ပ

pyin-ba — outside, exterior, external area

ထက်

htat — than, more than (comparative particle)

ပို

po — more, even more, additionally (comparative adverb)

ကောင်းတဲ့

kaung deh — that is good, better (relative clause form)

ပဲ

pe — only, just, indeed (emphatic/limiting particle)

_ဒီ_

di — this, here (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

တစ်ကြိမ်

ta-kyime — once, one time, one occasion

ပေါ့

paw — light (in weight); casual sentence-final softener

သူမ

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

ဥာဏ်

nyan — wisdom, intelligence, mental faculty

ပညာ

pyin-nya — knowledge, education, wisdom, learning

အမှား

a-hma — mistake, error, fault, wrongdoing

သွားသည့်

thwa thì — that went, that has gone (relative form)

အတွက်

a-twat — for, for the sake of, because of

တစ်ဝက်

ta-wat — half, one half of something

ဝမ်းနည်း

wun-ni — to be sad, sorrowful, feel grief

တစ်ခါ

ta-hka — once, one time, on one occasion

လိုက်နာ

lite-na — to follow, comply with, obey rules or instructions

သိတတ်

thi-tat — to know how to, be knowledgeable, be wise

သော

thaw — formal relative clause particle; that, which, who

အပြုအမူ

a-pyu a-mu — behavior, conduct, manner of acting

သို့

thó — to, toward, in the direction of (formal)

မတော်တဆ

ma-taw-ta-hsa — accidentally, by chance, unintentionally, unexpectedly

ရောက်

yout — to arrive, reach, get to a place

ဝမ်းသာ

wun-tha — to be glad, happy, pleased, delighted

နေသည်

nay thì — is staying, living, continuing to do (formal)

သို့သော်

thó thaw — however, but, nevertheless (formal conjunction)

က

ga — subject marker particle; from, by (agent marker)

ပြော

pyaw — to say, speak, tell, talk

အင်း

in — yes, well, hmm (informal affirmative response)

ခု

hku — now, at present; also classifier for objects

အဖွား

a-phwa — grandmother, elderly woman (respectful term)

သူ့

thu — his, her (possessive colloquial form)

အဖြူ

a-phyu — white color, white thing

ချည်

ji — thread, string; only, just (limiting particle)

နဲ့

neh — with, and, by means of (informal particle)

ထားတယ်

hta deh — has placed, has kept (informal past tense)

ခဲ့တာ

kheh ta — the fact of having done (past nominalized form)

အနက်ရောင်

a-nat yaung — black color, the color black

ဘာ

ba — what, something, anything (interrogative pronoun)

ဆက်လက်

set-let — to continue, proceed, carry on doing something

ပြောဆို

pyaw-so — to say, speak, express verbally

မည့်

meh — future tense marker (formal relative clause form)

စကားများ

za-ga mya — words, speeches, multiple statements or utterances

စောင့်

saung — to wait, guard, watch over something or someone

ဘဲ

beh — without doing, instead of (negative connective particle)

နေ

nay — to stay, live; continuous aspect marker

တံခါး

tan-ga — door, gate, entrance of a building

ထွက်

thwat — to go out, exit, leave a place

သွားရင်း

thwa-yin — while going, in the process of going away

ဒါ

da — this, that, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)

ကြောင့်

kyaung — because of, due to, owing to (causal particle)

ရိုက်

yite — to hit, strike, beat; to take a photo

မယ်

meh — will, going to (informal future tense marker)

လုံခြုံ

lone-jun — safe, secure, protected from danger

နေရာ

nay-ya — place, location, spot, position

တစ်ခု

ta-hku — one thing, a single item (numeral + classifier)

တွင်

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

လက်ဘက်

let-bet — tea leaf salad; also direction/side of hand

ထိုး

hto — to stab, inject, insert, poke into something

ထားသော

hta thaw — that has been placed (formal relative clause form)

အကြီးစား

a-kyi-za — major, large-scale, serious, of great magnitude

ဆေးထိုး

say hto — to inject medicine, give an injection

အပ်

at — needle; also to submit, hand over something

နှစ်

hnit — year; also two (number); to press down

ချောင်း

chaung — stream, creek; also a tube or hollow object

စစ်ဆေး

sit-se — to examine, inspect, investigate, check thoroughly

ကြည့်

kji — to look, watch, observe, examine something

တစ်

tit — one (number); a, an (indefinite article equivalent)

တပ်

tat — to attach, install, put on; military camp/unit

အခြား

a-hkha — other, another, different, alternative

အနက်

a-nat — black; deep, profound meaning of a word

ဆစ်

sit — knuckle, joint; also tip or point of something

ရှိ

shi — to have, exist, be present, there is

ခဲ့

kheh — past tense marker indicating completed action

ရင်

yin — if, when (conditional particle); chest/breast

ဘယ်တော့

beh-taw — when (interrogative), at what time

သတိ

tha-ti — mindfulness, awareness, caution, attention

မိ

mi — to catch, hit upon; to realize (completive verb)

ဘူး

bu — never/not ever (negative past experience particle)

တစ်ရံ

ta-yan — sometimes, occasionally, at one time

တစ်မျိုး

ta-myo — one kind, a type, a sort of something

မျိုး

myo — type, kind, sort, species, variety

ကပ်တည်

kat-ti — to stick close to, cling near, stay attached

ဆောင်

saung — to carry, bear, bring along; to perform

ဖို့

hpo — in order to, for the purpose of (purposive particle)

ဆန္ဒ

zan-da — desire, wish, will, aspiration, intention

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi — to remember, recall, recollect something

နိုင်

nine — can, able to, capable of doing something

မှာ

hma — at, in, on (informal locative); also ordering particle

အသေ

a-thay — dead, fixed, rigid; also thoroughly, firmly

အချာ

a-ja — pivot, center, key point, hub of something

သင်

thin — you (formal/polite second-person pronoun)

ပေး

pay — to give, provide, allow, let someone do