The Confessions of St. Augustine — Page 9

Vocabulary

ထို

hto — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; a period or moment

တွင်

twing — In; at; within (locative particle)

ပင်

ping — Indeed; even; emphatic particle

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya-noup — I; me (formal first-person pronoun)

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

အသက်

a-thek — Life; age; breath of living beings

ရှင်

shin — To live; alive; also a respectful address

၍

yway — So; therefore; connective particle linking clauses

တည်

tì — To exist; to be established; to remain

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is/are

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; indicates completed or past action

ပြီး

pyi — Already; finished; after completing an action

ကလေး

ka-lay — Child; baby; small or young person

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life; existence; one's state of being

၏

è — Possessive or genitive particle; of, belonging to

အဆုံး

a-hsone — End; conclusion; the final point

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning self

ခံစား

khan-zar — To feel; to experience; to sense emotionally

ချက်

chek — Point; moment; a stroke or instance

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; more than one

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward, at

အခြား

a-hcha — Other; another; different from this

သူ

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

အား

a — To; for; indirect object marker particle

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to be aware

စေ

say — To cause; to let; causative particle

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; infinitive marker

နိမိတ်

nei-mit — Omen; sign; portent; auspicious or inauspicious sign

လက္ခဏာ

let-kha-na — Characteristic; sign; feature; distinguishing mark

ရှာ

sha — To search; to look for; to seek

ဖွေ

phway — To search; to investigate; to rummage for

နိုင်

naing — Can; able to; capable of doing something

အို

o — O! Oh! Exclamation of address or lament

ဘုရား

pha-ya — God; Buddha; a sacred religious being

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle indicating movement

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that, who

သတ္တဝါ

that-ta-wa — Living being; creature; sentient animal or being

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self; oneself; personal pronoun

တော်

taw — Royal; noble; skilled; able; a respectful suffix

ထံ

htan — Near; with; at the location of someone

မှ

hma — From; since; out of (ablative particle)

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no (negative marker)

ဟုတ်

hoat — True; correct; yes; to be right

လျှင်

hlyìn — If; when; conditional particle

အဘယ်

a-bhe — What; which; why (formal interrogative)

ဆင်း

hsin — To descend; to go down; to come down

သက်

thek — Life; age; to breathe; to be alive

လာ

la — To come; to arrive; directional verb particle

မည်

mì — Future tense marker; will; shall

နည်း

nì — Method; way; how; means of doing something

ဆို

hso — To say; to mean; quotation marker particle

ဖန်

phan — To create; times; occasion; Creator God

လော

law — Question particle expressing wonder or inquiry

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; affair

ခပ်

khap — All; every; quite; somewhat (intensifier)

သိမ်း

thein — To gather; to collect; to incorporate all

အနှစ်

a-hnit — Essence; core; year; the inner substance

သာရ

tha-ya — Essence; substance; core meaning of something

နှင့်

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

တို့

doe — Plural marker for pronouns; we, they, us

စီး

si — To flow; to ride; to drift along

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

အရင်း

a-yin — Origin; source; root; capital; original base

အမြစ်

a-myit — Root; foundation; origin; base of something

ပါး

pa — Side; cheek; thin; a thin flat object

တစ်

tit — One; a single unit (number one)

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; position; spot

ရ

ya — To get; to receive; to obtain; can

မူ

mu — But; as for; topic contrast particle

ခု

khu — Now; this present moment; current time

တည်း

tì — Only; alone; solely; restrictive particle

ဖြစ်

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

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — Reason; cause; about; concerning something

ကား

ka — Car; vehicle; also a topic-marking particle

တိုင်

taing — Until; up to; as far as; a post

အမြင့်

a-myìn — Height; elevation; the highest point

ဆုံး

hsone — End; most; to die; superlative marker

ရင်း

yin — While; source; origin; intimate; bosom

မြစ်

myit — River; also root or source

ပြောင်း

pyaung — To change; to transform; to move elsewhere

လဲ

lè — To fall; also; question or contrast particle

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalization suffix; the act of doing something

၌

hnit — In; at; within (formal locative particle)

နေ့

nay — Day; daytime; a specific calendar day

ကုန်

koun — To be finished; goods; merchandise; all used up

သော်

thaw — Although; but; concessive conditional particle

အားလုံး

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

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well; additive particle

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; agent marker

ကိုင်

kaing — To hold; to grasp; to carry in hand

တွယ်

twe — To cling; to adhere; to attach to something

ကွယ်

kwe — To disappear; hidden; behind; out of sight

ပျောက်

pyauk — To disappear; to get lost; to vanish

သွား

thwa — To go; to leave; directional verb particle away

မည့်

mì — Future relative particle; which will happen

လမ်း

lam — Road; path; way; street

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two; the number two

ခန်း

khan — Room; hall; chapter; dried up; depleted

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; causal postposition

ရက်

yet — Day (of month); a period of days

ဘိုး

pho — Grandfather; ancestor; value; worth

ဘေး

bay — Side; danger; peril; beside something

ပေါင်း

paung — To add; to combine; total; together with

မျှ

hmya — As much as; only; equal to; just

ဖြတ်

phyat — To cut through; to cross; to pass through

ကျော်

kyaw — To exceed; to cross over; famous; beyond

ကာ

ka — While; as; aspect particle for ongoing action

၎င်း

da-gin — That; it; the said (formal demonstrative pronoun)

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizer; action; matter; affair

တိုင်း

taing — Every; each; every time; region; country

တာ

ta — Nominalization particle; the fact of doing

သဏ္ဍာန်

than-dan — Shape; form; appearance; likeness of something

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; to do together collectively

ထို့

hto — Therefore; that way; in that manner

ပြင်

pyin — Outside; to prepare; to fix; to repair

အဆင့်

a-hsin — Level; rank; grade; stage of progress

လိမ့်

lein — Future conjecture marker; probably will happen

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at present; currently; at this moment

အတူ

a-du — Together; alongside; in the same place

တူ

du — Same; alike; similar; to resemble something

မနက်

ma-net — Morning; early part of the day

ဖြန်

phyan — Tomorrow; the next day; following day

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

အပိုင်း

a-paing — Part; section; portion; division of something

အစ

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

နောက်

nauk — After; behind; next; following in sequence

ပြု

pyu — To do; to make; to perform; to act

လုပ်

loat — To do; to work; to make; to perform

နား

na — Ear; to rest; to stop; near; beside

လည်

lè — To turn; to visit; also neck; throat

အဖို့

a-pho — For; for the sake of; concerning someone

ဝမ်း

wùn — Stomach; abdomen; womb; pregnancy

မြောက်

myauk — North; to succeed; to float upward; northward

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; thus said

လော့

law — Imperative particle; do it! exhortative command

တွေ့

tway — To meet; to find; to encounter someone

အစား

a-zar — Instead of; in place of; as a substitute

ဘဲ

bè — Without; not doing; withholding an action

ယူ

yu — To take; to bring; to carry along

ဆ

hsa — Poison; venomous substance; to poison someone

ကျေ

kyay — To be settled; paid off; grateful; contented

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; restrictive emphatic particle

ဝင့်

win — To be majestic; grand; imposing; stately appearance

ကြွား

kwa — To boast; to brag; to show off proudly