The Count of Monte Cristo — Page 5

Vocabulary

သူသည်

thu. hti. — He; subject pronoun marker for third person

နှစ်သုံးဆယ့်ငါး

hnit thoun-ze nga — Twenty-five; the number 25

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hkote — Or; alternatively; used to present another option

နှစ်သုံးဆယ့်ခြောက်

hnit thoun-ze kyauk — Twenty-six; the number 26

နှစ်သားအရွယ်

hnit thar a-ywal — Of age; referring to a certain age in years

လူတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ပြီး၊

lu tit yout pfyit pyi — Being a person; used to describe someone's character

မျက်နှာသွင်ပြင်မှာ

myat hna thwin pyín hma — In terms of facial appearance; regarding looks

ဆွဲဆောင်မှုမရှိဘဲ၊

hswe hsaung hmu ma shi bè — Without attractiveness; lacking appeal or charm

အကြီးအကဲများကို

a-kyi a-kè myar go — Superiors; those in higher authority or rank

လက်အောက်ငယ်သားများကို

let out ngè thar myar go — Subordinates; those under one's authority or command

ရိုင်းစိုင်းကြမ်းတမ်းစွာ

ráin sáin kyàn dàn zwa — Roughly and rudely; in a harsh, brutal manner

ဆက်ဆံတတ်သော

hset hsan tat thaw — Tends to treat or deal with others in a certain way

သူဖြစ်သည်။

thu pfyit ti — He is; statement confirming someone's identity or nature

ထိုအချက်များအပြင်

tho a-chet myar a-pyin — In addition to those points; furthermore; besides that

သင်္ဘောပေါ်တွင်

thin-baw paw twin — On the ship; aboard the vessel

တာဝန်ရှိသော

ta-wun shi thaw — Responsible; having duty or accountability for something

ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်

ko-zar hlwe a-pfyit — As a representative; acting on behalf of another

သူ၏ရာထူးသည်

thu ye ra-htu hti — His position; his rank or official role

ကျွန်းသည်များအတွက်

kyun thi myar a-twet — For the sailors; concerning the crew members

အမြဲပင်

a-myè pin — Always; constantly; without exception at any time

စိတ်ရှုပ်ထွေးမှုဖြစ်စေသောကြောင့်၊

seit shote htwe hmu pfyit ze thaw kyaung — Because it causes confusion or complication for others

အဖွဲ့သားများသည်

a-pfwè thar myar hti — The members; those belonging to a group or crew

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; object marker referring to a third person male

ကို

go — Object marker particle; indicates the direct object

ချစ်ခင်သလောက်ပင်

chit chin tha lout pin — As much as they love; equally to the degree of affection

မုန်းတီးကြသည်။

moon tee kya ti — They hate; expressing collective strong dislike or hatred

"ကဲ၊

kè — Well; an interjection to begin or prompt conversation

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; a formal title of address for a man

ပြောသည်၊

pyaw ti — Says; speaks; utters words to someone

"ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ကြုံတွေ့ရသော

kyun-naw doh kyoun twe ya thaw — That we have encountered; the situation we faced together

ဒုက္ခအကြောင်းကို

douk-kha a-kyaung go — About the misfortune; regarding the trouble encountered

သင်ကြားသိပြီးပြီဆိုတာ

thin kyar thi pyi pyi so ta — That you have already heard and know about it

မှန်ပါသလား?

hmàn ba tha lar — Is that correct? Is it true? Polite confirmation question

"ဟုတ်တယ်—ဟုတ်တယ်၊

hote tel — hote tel — Yes—yes; emphatic affirmative reply or confirmation

ကပ္တိန်

kap-tin — Captain; the commanding officer of a ship

ကောင်းကောင်းကလေး။

kaung kaung ga lè — Quite well; nicely; in a reasonably good manner

သတ္တိရှိပြီး

thut-ti shi pyi — Having courage; being brave and determined in character

ရိုးသားသောသူ

yoe thar thaw thu — An honest person; someone sincere and straightforward

တစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်သည်။

tit yout pfyit ti — Is one person; identifies someone as a single individual

"ထိုမျှသာမက

tho hmya tha ma kat — Not only that; furthermore; in addition to the above

အဆင့်မြင့်သော

a-hsin myint thaw — Of high rank; skilled and accomplished at a higher level

သင်္ဘောသည်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပြီး၊

thin-baw thi tit u pfyit pyi — Being a sailor; a person who works aboard a ship

ကြာရှည်စွာ

kya shè zwa — For a long time; over an extended period of duration

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာရှိသော

gon thit-kha shi thaw — Having dignity; honorable and respectable in conduct

အမှုထမ်းမှုကို

a-hmu htan hmu go — Service; the act of carrying out duty or official work

ပြုခဲ့သောသူဖြစ်သည်။

pyu khè thaw thu pfyit ti — Is someone who has performed or done; a doer

အရေးကြီးသောအဖွဲ့အစည်း၏

a-ye kyi thaw a-pfwè a-si ye — Of the important organization; belonging to a key firm

အကျိုးစီးပွားကို

a-kyo si bwar go — The interests; the benefit or profit of an organization

တာဝန်ယူသူတစ်ဦးအတွက်

ta-wun yu thu tit u a-twet — For a person who takes responsibility; for a trustee

ထိုကဲ့သို့သောသူသာ

tho kè thoe thaw thu tha — Only such a person; only someone like that qualifies

သင့်တော်သည်

thint taw ti — Is suitable; is appropriate or fitting for the role

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle; marks the end of reported speech

ပြန်ဆိုသည်။

pyan so ti — Replies; responds; says back in conversation

"သို့သော်၊

thoe thaw — However; but; introduces a contrasting statement

သင်္ဘောပိုင်ရှင်က

thin-baw pine shin ga — The ship owner; subject marker for the vessel's proprietor

သူ၏သင်္ဘောကျောက်ချသည်ကို

thu ye thin-baw kyout chè ti go — His ship anchoring; the act of the ship dropping anchor

ကြည့်ရှုနေသော

kyi shu ne thaw — Who is watching; observing something in progress nearby

မျှော်ကြည့်ရင်း

myaw kyi yin — While gazing; looking toward something in the distance

ပြန်ဆိုသည်၊

pyan so ti — Says in reply; responds verbally to a statement made

"သင်္ဘောသည်တစ်ဦးသည်

thin-baw thi tit u hti — A sailor; referring to one seafaring person specifically

သူ၏အလုပ်ကို

thu ye a-lote go — His work; his job or professional duty and tasks

နားလည်ရန်

nar le yan — In order to understand; for the purpose of comprehension

သင်ပြောသလောက်

thin pyaw tha lout — As much as you say; to the extent you claim or state

အသက်ကြီးရန်

a-thet kyi yan — To be old; to need to be of advanced age for something

မလိုဟု

ma lo hu — That it is not necessary; saying something is not needed

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; formal or polite first-person pronoun used by males

ထင်ပါသည်၊

htin ba ti — Think; believe; polite expression of one's own opinion

အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်

a-bè kyaung so thaw — Because; the reason being; used to introduce explanation

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏မိတ်ဆွေ

kyun-naw doh ye mait-hswe — Our friend; the person we know and associate with

သည်

ti — Topic or subject particle; marks the subject of a sentence

၎င်းကို

din go — It; refers to something previously mentioned as object

ကောင်းစွာနားလည်ပြီး

kaung zwa nar le pyi — Understands well; having thoroughly grasped something already

မည်သူ့ထံမှမျှ

ma thu htan hma hmya — From no one at all; not from any person whatsoever

လမ်းညွှန်မှု

lan hnon hmu — Guidance; direction or instruction provided by another

မလိုအပ်ဟု

ma lo at hu — That it is not needed; stating something is unnecessary

ထင်ရသောကြောင့်

htin ya thaw kyaung — Because it seems; since it appears to be the case

ဖြစ်သည်။

pfyit ti — It is; affirming a state or fact at end of sentence

"ဟုတ်တယ်၊

hote tel — Yes; that's right; affirmative response in conversation

ဆီသို့

hsi thoe — Toward; in the direction of a person or place

မုန်းတီးမှုပြည့်ဝသော

moon tee hmu pyit wa thaw — Full of hatred; filled with strong animosity or contempt

အကြည့်ကို

a-kyi go — The gaze; the look or glance directed at someone

ပစ်လွှတ်ရင်း

pyit hlote yin — While casting; throwing or directing a look at someone

ပြောသည်။

pyaw ti — Says; speaks; states something to another person

"ဟုတ်တယ်၊ သူငယ်ရွယ်သည်၊

hote tel, thu ngè ywal ti — Yes, he is young; confirming the subject's young age

ပြီးတော့

pyi daw — And then; moreover; used to add a further point

လူငယ်ဆိုသည်မှာ

lu ngè so ti hma — As for young people; when it comes to youth generally

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi mi ko go — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to the self

ယုံကြည်တတ်သည်။

yone kyi tat ti — Tends to be self-confident; inclined to trust oneself

ကပ္တိန်၏

kap-tin ye — The captain's; possessive referring to the captain

အသက်ထွက်သွားသည်နှင့်

a-thet thwet thwar ti hnin — As soon as the captain died; upon his passing away

တပြိုင်နက်မျှသာ

ta-pfyain net hmya tha — At the very same moment; simultaneously and immediately

မည်သူ့ကိုမျှ

ma thu go hmya — No one at all; not consulting any person whatsoever

တိုင်ပင်ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းမပြု

tine pin hswe nwe chin ma pyu — Without consulting anyone; did not seek advice from others

သင်္ဘောကို

thin-baw go — The ship; object marker indicating the vessel acted upon

ထိန်းချုပ်မှုကို

htain chote hmu go — Control; command or authority over the ship's operation

ယူခဲ့ပြီး၊

yu khè pyi — Took; assumed control of something without permission

တိုက်ရိုက်မတက်ဘဲ

tite yote ma tat bè — Without going directly; instead of taking the straight route

ကျွန်းတွင်

kyun twin — On the island; at the location of a particular island

တစ်ရက်ခွဲဆုံးရှုံးစေခဲ့သည်။

tit yet khwè hson shone ze khè ti — Caused a loss of a day and a half; wasted that time