The Brothers Karamazov — Page 1

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle indicating the subject of sentence

၏

ì — Possessive or linking particle in formal Burmese

တတိယမြောက်

ta-ti-ya-myauq — Third in ordinal sequence or ranking

သား

thá — Son, male child of a parent

ဖြစ်

hpyiq — To be, to exist, to become something

သူ

thù — He, she, third-person singular pronoun

ခေတ်ကာလ

khèq-ka-la — Era, period, or age in time

တွင်

twìn — In, within, inside a place or time

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjànouq-to — We, our group, first-person plural formal pronoun

ဒေသ

day-tha — Region, area, local geographical zone

၌

hniq — At, in; locative particle used in formal writing

နာမည်ကြီး

na-mè-jí — Famous, well-known, having a big reputation

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle linking modifier to noun

မြေရှင်

myay-shìn — Landowner, person who owns land or estate

တစ်ဦး

tiq-ú — One person, a single individual

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyiq-pí — Being, having become; connecting clauses sequentially

ဆယ်သုံး

hsè-thóun — Thirteen, the number 13

နှစ်

hniq — Year, a unit of time equal to twelve months

က

ka — Agent marker particle indicating the doer of action

ဆိုးဝါးစွာ

hso-wá-zwá — Badly, terribly, in a very poor manner

ကွယ်လွန်

kwè-lùn — To pass away, to die (polite expression)

ခဲ့သော

khɛ̀-thaw — Past tense marker; that which occurred previously

ကြောင့်

kjàuñ — Because of, due to, on account of

ယနေ့တိုင်အောင်

ya-nè-táin-àuñ — Until today, up to the present day

အကြား

a-kjá — Among, between, in the middle of

အမှတ်ရ

a-hmaq-ya — Remembered, recalled, kept in memory

နေဆဲ

nay-zɛ̀ — Still continuing, remaining in a current state

ထို

htò — That, those; demonstrative pronoun referring to something

ကွယ်လွန်မှု

kwè-lùn-hmù — Death, passing away, the act of dying

အကြောင်း

a-kjàuñ — About, concerning, the reason or cause

ကို

ko — Object marker particle indicating the direct object

သင့်လျော်

thìñ-lyaw — Appropriate, suitable, fitting for a purpose

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot, position somewhere

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To describe, to explain, to indicate clearly

ပါမည်

pa-mì — Will do, future tense polite sentence ending

ယခု

ya-khu — Now, at this moment, currently

အတွက်

a-twèq — For, for the sake of, regarding

ဤ

ì — This; formal demonstrative pronoun in written Burmese

မြေရှင်

myay-shìn — Landowner, master of land or an estate

သူ့

thù — His, her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

ထိုသို့

htò-thò — In that way, like that, in such a manner

ခေါ်လေ့

khaw-lè — Habitually called, tending to be addressed as

ရှိ

shì — To have, to exist, to be present

သော်လည်း

thaw-lɛ̀ — However, although, even so, nevertheless

မိမိပိုင်

mi-mi-páin — Own, personally owned, belonging to oneself

မြေ

myay — Land, earth, ground, soil

ပေါ်တွင်

paw-twìn — On, upon, on top of a surface

တစ်ရက်

tiq-yeq — One day, a single day

မျှ

hmya — Even, only, as much as; limiting particle

ပင်

pìn — Even, indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ကြာကြာ

kja-kja — For a long time, at length, prolongedly

မနေ

ma-nay — Not staying, not remaining, unable to stay

ဘဲ

bɛ̀ — Without doing, not doing; negative connective particle

ဤသူ

ì-thù — This person, this individual being referred to

ထူးဆန်း

htú-hsán — Strange, unusual, extraordinary, remarkably odd

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်မျိုး

pouq-go-myó — Type of person, kind of individual character

သို့သော်လည်း

thò-thaw-lɛ̀ — However, nevertheless, but still, yet

တွေ့တတ်

twê-taq — Tending to encounter, likely to come across

လေ့ရှိ

lè-shì — Habitually does, tends to, is accustomed to

ယုတ်ညံ့

youq-ñan — Inferior, low quality, contemptible, degraded

ပြီး

pí — Finished, done, then, after completing an action

ယုတ်မာ

youq-ma — Wicked, vile, morally depraved person

ကာ

ka — While doing, as; progressive linking particle

တစ်ချိန်တည်း

tiq-chèin-dɛ̀ — At the same time, simultaneously

မိုက်မဲ

maiq-mɛ̀ — Stupid, foolish, unintelligent, dull-witted

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said, called, known as

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; restrictive emphatic particle

ဆိုလို

hso-lo — To mean, to intend to say, to imply

ပါသည်

pa-thì — Polite sentence-ending affirmative verb particle

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — However, but, yet; contrastive conjunction

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own self, reflexive pronoun

လောကီ

law-ki — Worldly, secular, relating to mundane affairs

ရေးရာ

yay-ya — Affairs, matters, concerns related to a field

များ

mjá — Many, plural marker for nouns in Burmese

ကောင်းစွာ

káuñ-zwá — Well, properly, in a good manner

စီမံ

si-man — To manage, to administer, to organize affairs

နိုင်

náin — Can, able to, capable of doing something

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, affair, subject

မှ

hma — From, than; ablative or source marker particle

တပါး

ta-pá — Other than, apart from, besides something

အခြား

a-chá — Other, another, different, additional

ဘာမျှ

ba-hmya — Nothing at all, not anything whatsoever

ဂရုစိုက်

ga-yu-saiq — To care for, to pay attention to, to mind

ဟန်

han — Appearance, manner, pretense, seeming to be

မရှိ

ma-shì — There is not, does not exist, absent

သူများ

thù-mjá — Others, other people, other individuals

ထဲမှ

htɛ̀-hma — From among, out of, from within a group

ဥပမာ

u-pa-ma — Example, for instance, illustration of a point

မူလ

mu-la — Original, initial, primary, at the beginning

မည်သည့်

mì-thìñ — Whichever, whatever, any particular thing or person

မပိုင်ဆိုင်

ma-páin-hsáin — Not owning, not possessing, having no ownership

စတင်

sa-tìn — To start, to begin, to commence an action

ခဲ့

khɛ̀ — Past tense auxiliary indicating completed past action

ဥစ္စာ

iq-sa — Wealth, property, possessions, worldly goods

အငယ်ဆုံး

a-ngɛ̀-zóun — Youngest, the smallest or least in age

စားပွဲ

sá-bwɛ̀ — Table, dining table, desk for eating or working

သို့

thò — To, toward, in the direction of somewhere

ပြေး

pyay — To run, to flee, to escape quickly

ဘက်ကပ်သူ

beq-kaq-thù — Sycophant, person who attaches himself to others

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀-thò — Like, as if, similar to, in the manner of

ကပ်ငြိ

kaq-nyi — To cling to, to stick close to someone

နေ

nay — To stay, to live, to remain; progressive marker

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when, at the time of

နောက်ဆုံး

nauq-zóun — Last, final, at the very end

ငွေကြေး

ngway-kjay — Money, currency, financial means or funds

သားနွား

thá-nwá — Cattle, livestock, domesticated farm animals

ဖြင့်

hpyìñ — With, by means of, using; instrumental particle

တစ်သိန်း

tiq-thèin — One hundred thousand, 100,000 units

နေကြောင်း

nay-kjàuñ — That one is living; reported speech connector

ထင်ရှား

htìn-shá — Clear, evident, obvious, prominent, well-known

လာ

la — To come; directional or continuative verb particle

မှာပင်

hma-pìn — Right there, precisely at that very place

သက်တမ်း

thèq-tán — Lifespan, duration of life or tenure

တစ်လျှောက်

tiq-hsauq — Throughout, all along, the entire length of

တစ်ခုဆိုတစ်ခု

tiq-khu-hso-tiq-khu — One thing after another, one by one

တဝန်း

ta-wùn — All around, throughout, across the whole area

အမိုက်ဆုံး

a-maiq-zóun — Most foolish, stupidest of all persons

နှင့်

hnìñ — And, with, together with; conjunctive particle

အိပ်မက်ဆန်ဆုံး

aiq-meq-hsán-zóun — Most dreamlike, most fantastical or unrealistic

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များ

pouq-go-mjá — Persons, individuals, plural of person

ထပ်ပြော

htaq-pyaw — To say again, to repeat, to reiterate a statement

ရလျှင်

ya-hlìn — If one gets, upon obtaining, when resulting in

၎င်း

thiq-kán — He, she, it; formal third-person pronoun in writing

မိုက်မဲမှု

maiq-mɛ̀-hmù — Foolishness, stupidity, the state of being dull

မဟုတ်

ma-houq — Not, is not, negative verb to be

ပေ

pay — Sentence particle indicating obviousness or mild assertion

အိပ်မက်ဆန်

aiq-meq-hsán — Dreamlike, fantastical, resembling a dream

အများစု

a-mjá-zu — Majority, most of, the greater part

လိမ္မာ

leiq-ma — Clever, well-behaved, obedient, intelligent

ပါးနပ်

pá-naq — Shrewd, cunning, astute, quick-witted

အသိဉာဏ်

a-thi-nyán — Intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, understanding

မိုက်မဲဆန်ကြဲမှု

maiq-mɛ̀-hsán-kjɛ̀-hmù — Reckless foolishness, wildly stupid behavior

ထူးခြား

htú-chá — Exceptional, distinctive, different from the ordinary

အမျိုးသားရေး

a-myo-tha-yay — Nationalist, relating to national or ethnic matters

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်

poun-than-dan — Form, shape, appearance, physical figure

နှစ်ကြိမ်

hniq-kjèin — Twice, two times, on two occasions

လက်ထပ်

leq-htaq — To marry, to wed, to get married

သုံးယောက်

thóun-yauq — Three people, a group of three persons

အကြီးဆုံး

a-kjí-zóun — Oldest, biggest, largest, eldest of all

ပထမ

pa-hta-ma — First, the number one in order

ဇနီး

za-ní — Wife, a man's lawful married partner

မွေးဖွား

mway-phwá — To be born, to come into the world

ကျန်

kjàn — Remaining, left over, the rest of

နှစ်ယောက်

hniq-yauq — Two people, a pair of persons

တို့

to — Plural marker for pronouns and sometimes nouns

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second, the second in order or ranking