The Confessions of St. Augustine — Page 8

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless, contrasting previous statement

အို

o — O; oh; vocative exclamation addressing someone

ဘုရားရှင်

paya shin — The Lord God; revered divine being

အစဉ်အမြဲ

a-zin a-myay — Always; forever; continuously without stopping

အသက်ရှင်

a-thek shin — To be alive; to live; to exist with life

တော်မူသော

taw mu thaw — Who is; honorific relative clause marker for deity

ကိုယ်တော်

ko taw — You; honorific second-person pronoun for God or royalty

၌

hnit — In; at; locative particle indicating place or time

မည်သည့်

myi thit — Whatever; whichever; any (interrogative determiner)

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; item of any kind

မျှ

hmya — Only; as much as; even; limiting particle

မသေဆုံး

ma thay zone — Does not die; immortal; not perishing

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which; who

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present tense verb particle

လောက

law ka — World; universe; realm of existence

မတည်

ma ti — Not stable; not established; impermanent

မီ

mi — Before; prior to; reaching up to a point

ကပင်

ka pin — Even from; emphatic particle stressing origin or extent

မတိုင်မီ

ma tine mi — Before reaching; prior to; before a certain point

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; thus (quoting speech)

ခေါ်ဆို

khaw zoe — To call; to name; to refer to as

နိုင်

nine — Can; able to; capable of doing something

သည့်

thit — Relative clause particle modifying a preceding noun

အားလုံး

a-lone — All; everyone; everything; the whole group

မတိုင်

ma tine — Not yet reaching; before arriving at a point

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

တော်မူ

taw mu — Honorific verb suffix for divine or royal actions

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; completed; and then (sequential)

ဖန်ဆင်း

phan zin — To create; to make; to bring into existence

သမျှ

tha myha — All; whatever; everything of a certain kind

တို့

toe — Plural marker for pronouns or nouns; we/they

၏

e — Genitive particle; of; belonging to

ဘုရားသခင်

paya tha khin — God; the Lord God (Christian usage)

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction or comitative)

သခင်

tha khin — Lord; master; owner; title of authority

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to occur; to happen

တည်

ti — To be established; to be stable; to exist firmly

မမြဲ

ma myay — Not permanent; not lasting; impermanent

ပဏာမ

pa na ma — Beginning; first; initial; primary origin

အကြောင်း

a-kyoun — Reason; cause; matter; subject; about something

တရား

ta yar — Law; doctrine; teaching; righteousness; Dharma

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; more than one

အစဉ်

a-zin — Always; continuously; in order; sequence

ထာဝရ

hta wa ra — Eternal; everlasting; forever (often used of God)

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; done collectively by many

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyoung lé — To change; to transform; to alter in form

တတ်

tat — To be able to; tends to; habitual action particle

အရင်းအမြစ်

a-yin a-myit — Source; root; origin; fundamental cause

မပြောင်း

ma pyoung — Does not change; unchanging; remains the same

မလဲ

ma lé — Does not alter; does not shift; unchanged

အင်

ain — Power; strength; force; ability

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist; there is none; absent

ယာယီ

ya yi — Temporary; provisional; not permanent

ထံ

htan — To; toward; in the presence of someone

တောင်းလျှောက်

toun shout — To petition; to request; to pray humbly

သူ

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

အကျွန်ုပ်

a-kya noup — I; me; humble first-person pronoun (formal/religious)

အား

a — Object marker; to; for; at (accusative particle)

မိန့်

myint — To speak; to say (honorific, used for superiors)

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; please; also marks polite requests

ကရုဏာ

ka ru na — Compassion; mercy; loving kindness toward others

ကြီး

ji — Big; great; large; important; major

လှ

hla — Beautiful; lovely; attractive in appearance

သနားဖွယ်

tha na phwé — Pitiful; deserving compassion; worthy of sympathy

ကောင်း

koun — Good; fine; well; virtuous; of good quality

ကလေး

ka lay — Child; baby; young person; little one

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life; existence; state of being; lifetime

၎င်း

da gin — That; it; the aforementioned; referring back to subject

သေဆုံး

thay zone — To die; to pass away; death occurs

သွား

thwa — To go; directional particle indicating movement away

အခြား

a-hka — Other; another; different; alternative

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One; a single item; one thing

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; marks direct object of verb

ဆက်ခံ

set khan — To inherit; to receive; to succeed to something

လော

law — Question particle; is it so? (interrogative ending)

ထို

htoe — That; those; referring to something previously mentioned

မိခင်

mi khin — Mother; female parent

ဝမ်းဗိုက်

wun bike — Abdomen; belly; womb area of the body

တွင်း

twin — Inside; within; interior of something

ကုန်ဆုံး

kone zone — To be used up; to end; to be exhausted

ခဲ့

khé — Past tense particle; indicates completed past action

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle stressing a point

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi ngé — A little; a few; a small amount

ကြားနာ

kya na — To hear; to listen; to receive by hearing

ကိုယ်ဝန်

ko wun — Pregnancy; being with child; a baby in womb

ဆောင်

zoun — To carry; to bear; to bring; to hold

မိန်းမ

myein ma — Woman; female; wife; adult female person

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tine — Oneself; personally; by one's own self

မြင်

myin — To see; to witness; to perceive visually

ဖူး

phu — Experiential particle; to have ever done something

ကား

ka — Emphatic topic particle; as for; it is indeed

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun myout — To rejoice; to be glad; joyful feeling

ရာ

ya — Place; location; also a nominalizer suffix

နေရာ

nay ya — Place; location; position; spot

မဆို

ma zoe — Whatever; any; no matter what (indefinite particle)

နေ

nay — To stay; to live; to be; continuous aspect marker

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively (disjunctive conjunction)

မည်သူ

myi thu — Who; whoever; whichever person (interrogative pronoun)

မေးမြန်း

may myin — To ask; to inquire; to question someone

ဤ

i — This; these; referring to something close at hand

ကိစ္စ

keit sa — Matter; affair; issue; case; business

ပြောပြ

pyaw pyar — To tell; to explain; to narrate to someone

မည့်

myi — Future tense relative particle; that will happen

အဖ

a-pha — Father; male parent; patriarch

ကော

kaw — Rhetorical question particle; what about; and then

မပြော

ma pyaw — Does not say; to not speak; silent

သူတပါး

thu ta pa — Others; other people; someone else

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-twe a-kyone — Experience; encounter; practical knowledge gained

က

ka — Subject marker particle; agent of an action

လည်း

lé — Also; too; as well; even (additive particle)

မကူညီ

ma ku nyi — Does not help; fails to assist; unhelpful

မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်

mi mi ko tine — One's very own self; personally; by oneself entirely

မှတ်ဉာဏ်

hmut nyan — Memory; recollection; mental faculty of remembering

ဤသို့

i thoe — Thus; in this way; like this; accordingly

ကြောင့်

kyoun — Because of; due to; on account of (causal particle)

ကျောင်

kyoun — To avoid; to evade; to stay away from

မပြု

ma pyu — Does not do; does not perform; refrains from acting

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to be aware of

အတွက်

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

ချီးမွမ်း

ji mwun — To praise; to glorify; to extol someone's qualities

ဝန်ခံ

wun khan — To confess; to admit; to acknowledge truthfully

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; against

မှာကြား

hma kya — To instruct; to command; to order someone

ကောင်းကင်

koun kyin — Sky; heaven; the celestial realm above earth

မြေကြီး

myay ji — Earth; ground; soil; land; the earth

ရှင်သန်

shin than — To live; to survive; to thrive alive

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; the act of; -ing (gerund form)

အစ

a-za — Beginning; start; origin; the first part

မမှတ်မိ

ma hmut mi — Cannot remember; fails to recall; forgetful

တော့

taw — Now; then; at this point (discourse particle)

မူကား

mu ka — As for; however; on the other hand (contrastive)

လူသား

lu tha — Human being; mankind; humanity

မိမိကိုယ်

mi mi ko — One's own self; oneself; reflexive pronoun

ပတ်သက်

pat thet — To be related to; concerning; having to do with

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; connective particle linking clauses

မှ

hma — From; since; out of; ablative particle of origin

များစွာ

mya zwa — Very many; a great number; abundantly

ခန့်မှန်း

khan hmun — To estimate; to guess; to approximate a value

ကာ

ka — While doing; having done; linking gerundive particle

အားနည်း

a nyi — Weak; feeble; lacking strength or power

သက်သေ

thet thay — Witness; evidence; proof; testimony

ပေါ်

paw — On; upon; above; surface of something

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle

အများအပြား

a-mya a-pya — A great many; numerous; a large number

ယုံကြည်

yone kyi — To believe; to trust; to have faith in

ရမည်

ya myi — Must get; will receive; obligatory future particle

စီမံကိန်း

si mun kein — Plan; project; scheme; organized program of action

ချ

hcha — To put down; to place; to lower; to lay