The Count of Monte Cristo — Page 2

Vocabulary

ရှုတ်

shote — To scold or reprimand someone harshly

ကြည့်

kji — To look at or observe something

နေ

nay — To live, stay, or remain somewhere

သူ

thu — Third-person pronoun meaning he, she, or they

များ

myar — Many, much, or plural marker in Burmese

ကြား

kjar — To hear; also means between or among

တွင်

twin — Locative particle meaning in, at, or within

ပျံ့

pyan — To spread out or diffuse widely

နှံ့

hnan — To permeate or spread throughout thoroughly

စိုး

so — To fear or be anxious about something

ရိမ်

yim — To worry or be concerned about something

ပူ

pu — Hot; also means to worry or be anxious

ပန်

pan — To request or implore someone earnestly

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an act or affair

သည်

thi — Present tense marker or topic marker particle

လူ

lu — Person or human being

အုပ်

oat — A group or flock; to cover or govern

ထဲ

htay — Inside or within a space or container

မှ

hma — From; ablative particle indicating origin or source

တစ်

tit — One; the number one or a single unit

ဦး

oo — Classifier for people; head; honorific prefix

အပေါ်

a-paw — On top of; above; regarding or concerning something

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very, extremely, or excessively beyond normal degree

ကြီး

kji — Big, large, or great in size or importance

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a certain manner

သက်

thet — Life; age; also refers to one's lifespan

ရောက်

yout — To arrive at or reach a destination

ခဲ့

khay — Past tense auxiliary indicating completed action

ဖြင့်

hpyin — Instrumental particle meaning by means of or with

သင်္ဘော

thin-baw — Ship or large boat used for sea travel

ဆိပ်

hsait — Port or harbor where boats dock

သို့

thoe — Directional particle meaning to or toward a place

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present, or have something

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into noun phrases

ကို

ko — Accusative particle marking the object of a verb

စောင့်

saung — To wait for or guard someone or something

မ

ma — Negation prefix used before verbs

ဆိုင်း

hsine — To delay or postpone; a sign or board

ဘဲ

bway — Without doing; conjunction indicating absence of action

သေး

thay — Still; yet; also means small or tiny

ငယ်

ngay — Young or small in age or size

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker equivalent to which or that

လှေ

hlay — Small boat or canoe used on water

စီး

si — To ride on a vehicle or vessel

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; upon a surface or object

ခုန်

khun — To jump or leap upward or forward

တက်

tat — To go up, ascend, or board a vehicle

ကာ

ka — Verbal particle indicating ongoing or simultaneous action

ရောင်း

yaung — To sell goods or merchandise to someone

ဘေး

bay — Side or beside; also means danger or hazard

လှော်

hlaw — To row a boat using oars

သွား

thwar — To go somewhere; directional verb away from speaker

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

တောင်း

taung — To ask for or request something from someone

ဆို

hso — To say, speak, or sing; quotative marker

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; already done; completion marker

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward the speaker

ကမ်း

kan — Shore, bank, or edge of a body of water

ဝင်

win — To enter or go into a place

နင်း

nin — To step on or trample underfoot

အခါ

a-kha — Time or occasion when something happens

ထို

hto — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant

ချဉ်း

chyin — To approach or draw near to something

ကပ်

kat — To approach closely; to stick or adhere to

မြင်

myin — To see or perceive with the eyes

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, or way to a destination

ညွှန်

hnwan — To point out or give directions to someone

နား

nar — Ear; also means to rest or take a break

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun indicating self-reference

ရာ

ya — Nominalizing suffix; also a classifier for actions

စွန့်

swun — To abandon, give up, or forsake something

ခွာ

khwa — To leave or depart from a place

ထုပ်

htoat — A bundle or package; to wrap or pack

လက်

let — Hand or arm; also used in compound words

ကိုင်

kine — To hold or grasp something in hand

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry or bear; to bring along something

လျက်

lyet — While doing; simultaneous action particle

ခြုံး

chon — To wrap around or cover oneself with cloth

ငိုက်

ngite — To feel drowsy or doze off while sitting

ရှု

shu — To breathe or inhale; to look at scenery

အသက်

a-thet — Life; age of a person; breath of life

ဆယ့်

hsay — Prefix used in teen numbers like eleven, twelve

ရှစ်

shit — The number eight

နှစ်

hnit — Two; also means year in Burmese

ဆယ်

hsay — Ten; the number ten

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, nice, or excellent in quality

လှ

hla — Beautiful or attractive in appearance

အရပ်

a-yat — Height of a person; also a direction or place

မြင့်

myin — Tall or high in stature or elevation

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; oneself; first-person informal pronoun

ပိုင်း

pine — Section or part of something divided up

ပိန်

pein — Thin or slim in body build

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunctive or comitative particle

မျက်

myet — Eye; used in compounds like မျက်နှာ (face)

လုံး

lone — Whole; round; classifier for round objects

မည်း

myi — Black or dark in color

ကျီး

kji — A crow; black scavenging bird

ကန်း

kan — Blind; lacking sight in the eyes

တောင်

taung — Mountain or hill; also means south direction

ပံ

pan — Wing of a bird or insect

ကဲ့

kay — Like or similar to; used in comparisons

မှောင်

hmawng — Dark or dim; lacking light in environment

ဆံ

hsan — Hair of the head

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle meaning indeed or even; also tree

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be or become; to happen or occur

ခန္ဓာ

khan-da — Body or physical form of a living being

ခု

khu — Now; at this moment; also a classifier

ကလေး

kha-lay — Child or young person; small child

ဘဝ

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

စ

sa — To begin or start doing something

အန္တရာယ်

an-da-yay — Danger, hazard, or threat to safety

ရင်

yin — Chest or heart; also a conditional particle

ဆိုင်

hsine — Shop or store; relating or pertaining to something

တွေ့

tway — To meet or encounter someone or something

ကြုံ

kjun — To come across or experience a situation

ဖူး

hpoo — Experiential marker indicating having done something before

ယောက်ျား

yout-kjar — Man or male adult person

သီး

thi — Fruit; to bear fruit; separately or distinctly

သန့်

thun — Clean, pure, or free from contamination

ငြိမ်

njeim — Still, quiet, or calm without movement

ခိုင်

khine — Strong, firm, or solid in structure

မာ

ma — Hard, firm, or tough in texture

ဆုံး

hsone — To end or finish; to die; utmost

ဖြတ်

hpyat — To cut through or pass across something

ချက်

chyet — Immediately; a point or moment; to cook

ဖော်

hpaw — To reveal or show; a companion or friend

ပြ

pya — To show or demonstrate something to someone

တေး

tay — A song or melody; to sing

လား

lar — Question particle for yes-or-no questions

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

အော်

aw — To shout or cry out loudly

ဟစ်

hit — To call out or yell at someone

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking about something

တာ

ta — Nominalizing particle; also softens declarative sentences

လဲ

lay — Question particle meaning what about or and you

မှာ

hma — At or in a location; also a command marker

ကြောင့်

kjaung — Because of; due to a cause or reason

အဲဒီ

aydi — That; that over there; demonstrative pronoun

လောက်

lout — About, approximately, or enough of something

ဝမ်း

wun — Stomach or abdomen; belly of the body

နည်း

ni — Method or way; few or little in quantity

ဒုက္ခ

doat-kha — Suffering, hardship, or difficulty in life

ပါ

pa — Polite particle added to soften speech

မော

maw — Tired or exhausted from effort or exertion

ရဲ

yay — Brave or daring; also a genitive/topic particle

ဆရာ

hsaya — Teacher, doctor, or respected skilled professional

ပြန်

pyan — To return; to go back; again

ဖြေ

hpyay — To answer or respond to a question

အထူး

a-htu — Special, particular, or extraordinary in nature

ကျွန်

kjwan — Slave; first-person humble pronoun prefix

တော့်

taw — Particle indicating emphasis or mild warning

အတွက်

a-twet — For the sake of; for a purpose or reason

ချီ

chi — To lift up or carry; to begin marching

အနီး

a-ni — Nearby or close to a place or person

တော်

taw — Skilled or able; royal honorific particle

တို့

to — Plural pronoun marker; we, they, you all

ရင့်

yin — Mature, experienced, or deep in color

ကပ္တိန်

kap-tein — Captain of a ship or military unit

ရှုံး

shone — To lose a contest, game, or argument

ရ

ya — To get or obtain; can or be able to

ကုန်

kone — Goods or merchandise; to run out or finish

တင်

tin — To load or submit; also means only or just

ရေး

yay — To write; also matters or affairs in compounds

ကော

kaw — Colloquial question particle meaning what about or so

ပိုင်

pine — To own or possess something as property

ရှင်

shin — Alive; a form of address; monk or lord

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, or feelings; mental state

အား

ar — Strength or energy; object marker in some contexts

မေး

may — To ask a question or inquire about something

မြန်း

myan — To ask or inquire; to interrogate someone

အားလုံး

ar-lone — Everyone or everything; all without exception

ကင်း

kin — Free from or devoid of; a watchtower or post

လုံ

lone — Safe or sufficient; to be enough or secure

ခြုံ

chon — To cover or wrap; overall or in general

အကြောင်း

a-kjaung — Reason, cause, or subject matter of something

ပတ်

pat — Around or surrounding; a week; to revolve around

သင်

thin — You; second-person formal pronoun

ကျေ

kjay — To be repaid or settled; grateful or satisfied

လိမ့်

lein — Future probability marker suggesting something will happen

မည်

mi — Future tense marker indicating something will occur

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said or as stated

ထင်

htin — To think or suppose; to appear or seem

သော်

thaw — Although or even though; concessive conjunction

ဒုတိယ

doat-ti-ya — Second in order or rank

သူ့

thu — His or her; third-person possessive or object form

နှိမ့်

hnein — To lower or humble; to suppress or look down

ချ

chya — To put down or place; to lower something

ဟန်

han — Appearance, manner, or pose; to pretend or act

လိုက်

lite — To follow or go along with someone

အကျင့်

a-kjin — Habit, custom, or moral conduct of a person

စာ

sa — Letter, book, or written text; to read

သေ

thay — To die; dead; very or extremely (intensifier)

လယ်

lay — Rice field or paddy field for farming

ပြုတ်

pyoat — To fall off or drop; to boil food

ကျ

kja — To fall down or descend; to fail

ဟုတ်

hoat — True or correct; yes, that is right

ကြောက်

kjout — To fear or be afraid of something

မက်

met — To desire or crave; to be greedy for

ဖွယ်

phway — Worthy of or likely to provoke a feeling

ဝေဒနာ

way-da-na — Pain, suffering, or physical discomfort experienced

နှောက်

hnout — Brain; to disturb or interfere with someone

တုပ်

toat — To tie up or bind; to restrain movement

ကွေး

kway — To bend or curve; a bend in a river

ရောဂါ

yaw-ga — Disease or illness affecting the body