The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Page 7

Vocabulary

ဆိုသော

hso-thaw — called, named, or referred to as

ဆင်းရဲတွတ်

hsine-yeh-twut — extremely poor, destitute, in dire poverty

သေးငယ်

thay-ngeh — small, tiny, little in size

နွမ်းပါး

nwun-ba — poor, impoverished, lacking basic necessities

သည့်

thit — relative particle linking noun and modifier clause

ရွာ

ywa — village, small rural settlement

လေး

lay — four; also softening particle expressing endearment

တွင်

twing — in, at, within a place or time

မည်

myi — future tense marker; will, shall

အသက်

a-thet — age; life, years of life

အရွယ်

a-yway — age group, size, stage of life

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hout — or, otherwise, alternatively

လိင်

lain — gender, sex (biological)

ဖြစ်

phyit — to be, to become, to happen

စေ

say — causative particle; to cause or make someone do

လူသစ်

lu-thit — newcomer, new person, stranger

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — one person (formal counter for people)

သည်

thì — topic marker particle; present tense marker

လူ

lu — person, human being, people

အံ့သြ

an-thaw — to be amazed, astonished, surprised

ဖွယ်

phway — worthy of, deserving, suffix indicating quality

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ရာ

seit-win-sa-phway-ya — interesting, worthy of attention and curiosity

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — one thing, one item (general counter)

လေ

lay — sentence-final particle expressing mild assertion

သည်။

thì — sentence-ending topic marker with full stop

ထို

htoe — that, those (demonstrative pronoun, formal)

ကလေး

ka-lay — child, young kid, infant

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung-kaung — well, properly, nicely, in a good manner

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut-hsing — to wear, to dress oneself in clothing

ထား

hta — to place, to keep; perfective aspect marker

အပတ်

a-pat — week; also a round or session

တနေ့

ta-nay — one day, someday, a certain day

ပင်

ping — emphatic particle meaning indeed, even, really

ဤ

i — this (formal demonstrative pronoun)

မှာ

hma — at, in, on; location marker particle

တကယ်

ta-geh — really, truly, in fact, genuinely

အံ့မခန်း

an-ma-gan — exceedingly amazing, extraordinarily astonishing

သူ

thu — he, she, that person (third person pronoun)

၏

e — possessive or genitive particle (formal)

ဦးထုပ်

u-htout — hat, cap worn on the head

လှပ

hla-pa — beautiful, pretty, attractive in appearance

သပ်ရပ်

thet-yat — neat, tidy, well-groomed in appearance

နှင့်

hnin — and, with, together with (connector particle)

ချုပ်

chout — to sew, stitch; tailored clothing

ဆို

hso — to say, to call, to mean; quotative marker

သော

thaw — relative clause marker (past/completed action modifier)

အပြာ

a-pya — blue (color)

ရောင်

yaung — color, hue, shade of a color

အဝတ်

a-wut — clothing, garment, clothes

ဂါဝန်

ga-wun — gown, dress, long garment worn by women

အသစ်

a-thit — new, brand new, fresh

လည်း

leh — also, too, as well (additive particle)

၍

yway — connective particle meaning and so, thereby, thus

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung-bi — trousers, pants worn on legs

နည်း

neh — method, way; few, little in quantity

အတူ

a-tu — together, jointly, at the same time

ဖိနပ်

hpa-nat — shoes, footwear worn on feet

စီး

si — to ride, to wear (footwear); to flow

သောကြာ

thaw-kja — Friday (day of the week)

နေ့

nay — day, daytime, daily

သာ

tha — only, just, merely (limiting particle)

သေး

thay — still, yet; also small (colloquial)

လည်ဆွဲ

leh-hsway — necklace worn around the neck

တစ်ချောင်း

ta-chaung — one piece (counter for long thin objects)

ပတ်

pat — to wrap around; week; surrounding

တောက်ပ

taut-pa — bright, shining, radiant, glittering

ဖဲကြိုး

pheh-kjo — ribbon, decorative bow or tie

အနည်းငယ်

a-neh-ngeh — a little, a small amount, slightly

ဖြင့်

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

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-louk — to do, to make, to perform an action

သူ့

thu — his, her, their (possessive colloquial form)

ဆီ

hsi — toward, to (directional particle); also oil

မြို့ကြီးသား

myoe-ji-tha — big city dweller, urban resident, city person

ပမာ

pa-ma — like, as, similar to (comparison particle)

အမူအကျင့်

a-mu-a-kjin — behavior, manners, conduct, habits of a person

ရှိ

shi — to have, to exist, to be present

နှလုံးသား

hnalone-tha — heart (emotionally), inner feelings, spirit

ထဲ

hteh — inside, within, into (locative particle)

သို့

thoe — to, toward, in the direction of

ဝင်ရောက်

win-yout — to enter, to go into, to come in

ကာ

ka — while, and then (sequential connective particle)

ယားနာ

ya-na — itching pain, irritating discomfort sensation

ဖြောင်ချော

phyaung-chaw — smooth, sleek, perfectly straight and neat

အံ့ဩ

an-aw — amazed, filled with wonder and admiration

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phway-kaung — worth admiring, deserving of praise or wonder

ကို

ko — object marker particle; to, toward (direction)

ကြည့်

kji — to look at, to watch, to observe

မှု

hmu — nominalizer suffix turning verb into abstract noun

သည်းသည်းမာမာ

thi-thi-ma-ma — intensely, seriously, with great determination

မထီမဲ့မြင်

ma-hti-meh-myìn — to look down on, to despise, to disrespect

ပြု

pyu — to do, to act, to treat someone in a way

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko-pine — one's own, personal, private ownership

ပို

poe — more, even more, excessively (comparative particle)

ဆင်းရဲ

hsine-yeh — poor, poverty-stricken, in financial hardship

ဟု

hu — quotative particle meaning said that, as stated

ထင်မြင်

htin-myìn — to think, to have an opinion, to believe

နှစ်ယောက်

hnit-yout — two people, a pair of persons

စလုံး

sa-lone — both, all of them (inclusive totality)

တစ်ခွန်း

ta-khwun — one word, one sentence, a single statement

မျှ

hmya — only, just, even (equative or limiting particle)

မပြောဆို

ma-pyaw-hso — not to say, not to speak, remaining silent

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yout — one person (informal counter)

ရွှေ့

shway — to move, to shift, to transfer position

လျှင်

hlyin — if, when (conditional particle)

တစ်ပါး

ta-pa — another, the other one (of people or things)

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — however, but, nevertheless (contrastive connector)

ဘေး

beh — side, beside, next to; also danger

စက်ဝိုင်း

set-wine — circle, circular shape or ring

ပုံစံ

pone-san — shape, form, pattern, style, design

သူတို့

thu-doe — they, them (third person plural pronoun)

အချိန်ပြည့်

a-chain-pyi — full time, entire duration, all the time

မျက်နှာ

myet-hna — face, facial expression, countenance

ချင်းဆိုင်

chin-hsine — facing each other, directly opposite, vis-à-vis

မျက်လုံး

myet-lone — eye, eyeball (part of the face)

ချင်း

chin — each other, mutually; also an ethnic group name

တိုက်

tite — to fight, to bump; building, multi-story structure

နေ

nay — to stay, to live, to remain; sun

ကြ

kja — plural marker for verbs indicating group action

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-zone — finally, at last, in the end

က

ga — subject marker particle; from (source particle)

ပြော

pyaw — to say, to speak, to tell someone

လိုက်

lite — to follow; directional complement indicating action

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first person pronoun)

မင်း

min — you (informal second person pronoun)

ရိုက်

yite — to hit, to strike, to beat someone

နိုင်

nine — can, able to, capable of doing something

တယ်

teh — colloquial sentence-final assertive particle

ကြိုးစား

kjo-za — to try hard, to make effort, to strive

တာ

ta — nominalizer or sentence-final softening particle

ချင်

chin — to want to, to desire to do something

ဟုတ်

hout — yes, correct, true, that is right

လုပ်

louk — to do, to make, to perform an action

မလုပ်

ma-louk — to not do, to refrain from doing

ဘူး

bu — negative past or experiential particle; never done

လုံးဝ

lone-wa — absolutely, completely, totally, at all

မရ

ma-ya — cannot get, unable to obtain, not possible

မနိုင်

ma-nine — cannot, unable to, incapable of doing

အဆင်

a-hsin — convenience, smooth progress, going well

မပြေ

ma-pyay — not going smoothly, inconvenient, problematic

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tite-hsate — quiet, silent, still, peaceful and calm

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

phyit-paw — to arise, to occur, to come about

လာ

la — to come; directional verb particle toward speaker

ထို့နောက်

htoe-nout — after that, afterward, subsequently

နာမည်

na-meh — name, title of a person or thing

ဘယ်လို

beh-lo — how, in what way, what kind of

ခေါ်

khaw — to call, to name, to summon someone

လဲ

leh — question particle; or, either/or alternative

ဒါ

da — this, that (informal demonstrative pronoun)

ဟာ

ha — thing, matter; informal topic marker particle

နဲ့

neh — with, and (informal connector particle)

မဆိုင်

ma-hsine — not relevant, none of your business, unrelated

ကွ

kwa — sentence-final masculine emphatic particle

လား

la — yes/no question marker particle

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hout-keh — yes, that is correct (polite affirmative)

ငါ့

nga — my, mine (informal possessive first person)

ကိစ္စ

kite-sa — matter, affair, issue, business, concern

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — as, in the role of, in the form of

မယ်

meh — future tense marker (colloquial); will, going to

ထင်

htin — to think, to assume, to seem, to appear

ရင်

yin — if, when (conditional clause particle)

ဘာ

ba — what (interrogative pronoun)

ကြောင့်

kjoun — because of, due to, for the reason that

များများ

mya-mya — a lot, many, much, in great quantity

ကဲ

keh — like, similar to; exclamation of mild surprise

အခု

a-khu — now, at this moment, currently

စမ်း

san — to try, to test, to attempt something

အို

o — oh! (exclamation of surprise or realization)

ကိုယ်

ko — oneself, body; informal first person pronoun

အသိပညာ

a-thi-pyin-nya — knowledge, wisdom, education, intellectual understanding

ကြီး

ji — big, large, great, elder (size or status)

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — not, is not, that is incorrect (negation)