The Brothers Karamazov — Page 6

Vocabulary

တစ်မျိုး

tit myoe — One kind or type of something

တစ်ဖုံ

tit hpone — In one way; somehow; in a certain manner

သော

thaw — Relativizing particle connecting clauses or nouns

အဆို

a-hso — Statement, claim, or assertion by someone

အရ

a-ya — According to; based on something stated

သူမ

thu-ma — She; third-person singular feminine pronoun

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present-tense sentence particle

ကုပ်

kote — To crouch down or squat low

ကဲ့သို့

kè thoe — Like; similar to; in the manner of

အခန်း

a-khán — Room in a building; chapter of a book

ငယ်

ngè — Young; small; junior in age or rank

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One item; one thing; a single unit

တွင်

twìn — In; at; within a place or time

ရုတ်တရက်

yote ta-yet — Suddenly; all at once; unexpectedly

ပင်

pìn — Emphatic particle meaning even; indeed; also

သေဆုံး

thay-zone — To die; to pass away; to perish

သွား

thwá — To go; to move away from speaker

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense auxiliary indicating completed action

တိုက်ဖပ်

tite hpat — To afflict or strike with illness suddenly

ရောဂါ

yaw-ga — Disease; illness; medical condition or sickness

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; on account of

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning 'saying that'

ဆို

hso — To say; to state; quotative verb

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma-hote — Or; otherwise; alternatively between two options

အစာ

a-za — Food; nourishment; something eaten for sustenance

ငတ်မွတ်

ngat mwat — To be hungry; to starve; suffer hunger

ခေါင်းပါး

khaung-ba — Scarce; lacking; insufficient in supply

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an act or matter

နောက်

nauk — After; behind; next; following in sequence

က

ka — Subject marker particle after nouns or pronouns

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun for any person

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife; a man's female spouse

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Nominalizing particle indicating reason or reported speech

သိ

thi — To know; to be aware of something

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; able to achieve

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when something occurs

မူးယစ်

mu-yit — Intoxicated; drunk; under influence of substance

နေ

nay — To stay; to live; ongoing action particle

ပြီး

pyi — After; having finished; completion marker particle

လမ်း

lán — Road; path; street; way to somewhere

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; upon; above a surface

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of

ပြေး

pyay — To run; to flee quickly on foot

ထွက်

thwet — To exit; to come out; to leave

ကာ

ka — While doing; continuative connective particle

လက်

let — Hand; arm; used in many compound words

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit hpet — Both sides; two directions; on either side

ကို

ko — Object marker particle after direct objects

ကောင်းကင်

kaung-kin — Sky; heaven; the expanse above earth

ဆီ

si — Toward; in the direction of someone

မြှောက်

hmyauk — To lift up; to raise; to elevate

တင်

tin — To raise; to submit; to put on

လျက်

hlyat — While; doing continuously; connective adverbial particle

ဝမ်းသာ

wun-tha — To feel happy; to be glad or pleased

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun-myauk — To rejoice; to feel great joy or elation

အော်ဟစ်

aw-hit — To shout; to cry out; to exclaim loudly

ကြ

kya — Plural marker or together-action particle for verbs

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

အို

o — O; oh; exclamatory address particle

သခင်

tha-khin — Lord; master; owner; title of address

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at this present moment in time

ကိုယ်တော်

ko-daw — You; respectful second-person pronoun for lord

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; first-person male formal pronoun

အား

a — Object particle or to; toward; at someone

ငြိမ်းချမ်း

nyein-chán — Peace; tranquility; state of calm harmony

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ထွက်ခွာ

thwet-khwa — To depart; to leave a place behind

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin pyu — To allow; to permit; to give permission

တော်မူ

daw-mu — Royal or divine verb honorific suffix

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also; please

တည်း

ti — Only; just; restrictive emphatic particle

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; contrasting conjunction

တချို့

ta-cho — Some; certain ones; a few among many

မူ

mu — Topic emphasis particle indicating contrast or focus

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun

ကလေးငယ်

ka-lay ngè — Young child; small child; a little one

တစ်ယောက်

tit yauk — One person; a single individual person

မ

ma — Negation particle placed before verbs

ထိန်းချုပ်

htein-choat — To control; to restrain; to keep in check

နိုင်

naing — Can; to be able to; capable of

အောင်

aung — So that; in order to succeed or achieve

ငိုကြွေး

ngo-kway — To weep; to cry with tears and grief

ထို

hto — That; those; referring to something previously mentioned

မျှ

hmya — Only; as much as; equal to that amount

လောက်

lauk — About; approximately; enough; as much as

တောင်

taung — Even; mountain; south; emphatic particle

သူ့

thu — His; her; belonging to that person

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people in general

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; a lot of something

သနား

tha-na — To pity; to feel compassion toward someone

ရွံမုန်း

ywun-mone — To detest; to feel disgust or hatred

စိတ်

sate — Mind; heart; feeling; emotion or mental state

ဖြစ်မိ

hpyit mi — To happen to feel or become unintentionally

သော်

thaw — Although; but; concessive or conditional particle

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; additive particle

နှစ်ခု

hnit khu — Two things; a pair of items

စ

sa — To begin; start; initial action or letter

လုံး

lone — Whole; entire; classifier for round objects

မှန်ကန်

hmun-kan — Correct; accurate; right; true and proper

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle or imperative marker

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; excessively; beyond normal degree

ဖြစ်နိုင်

hpyit naing — Possible; may be; could happen or occur

ချေ

chay — Negation or softening particle in formal style

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; to be present

လွတ်မြောက်

lwat myauk — To be freed; to escape; to gain liberation

တစ်ချိန်

tit chein — One time; at a certain point in time

ကင်းလွတ်

kin lwat — Free from; exempt from; clear of something

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission; right; opportunity to do something

ပေး

pay — To give; to provide; to offer something

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

ယေဘူယျ

ye-bu-ya — General; universal; in a broad general sense

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

လူသား

lu-tha — Human being; mankind; humanity as a whole

ဆိုးညစ်

hso nyit — Evil; wicked; morally bad or corrupt

ပင်လျှင်

pin hlyin — Even; emphatic particle stressing unexpected inclusion

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-nope to — We; our; first-person plural formal pronoun

ထင်မှတ်

htin hmut — To think; to assume; to suppose something

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

ပို

po — More; additionally; to a greater degree

၍

yway — Therefore; so; connective particle linking clauses

ကြွယ်

kyway — Rich; abundant; wealthy; full of something

ကင်းမဲ့

kin mè — Lacking; devoid of; without something needed

ရိုးသား

yo-tha — Honest; sincere; straightforward in character

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lin — Clear; to clarify; easy to understand

ရှင်းရှင်း

shin-shin — Clearly; plainly; in a straightforward manner

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to happen or occur

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-dine — Oneself; personally; by one's own effort

နည်း

ni — Method; way; means of doing something

တူ

tu — Similar; alike; to resemble; same as