The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 1

Vocabulary

သင့်

shin့ — Your; belonging to you (second person pronoun)

စာကို

sa go — The letter; written document (object marker attached)

ပုံမှန်

pone hman — Normal, regular, usual, ordinary

စာတိုက်

sa daiq — Post office; place for sending mail

မှ

hma — From; originating at a place or source

တဆင့်

ta zin့ — Via; through; by way of an intermediary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun)

လက်ခံ

let khan — To accept, receive, or acknowledge something

ရရှိ

ya shi — To obtain, acquire, or receive something

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; having completed an action

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu ngae chin — Friend; close companion or peer

မစ္စတာ

mis-ta — Mister; polite title for an adult male

ထံ

htan — To; directed toward a specific person

အပ်နှံ

a hnan — To entrust, hand over, or deliver something

ထားသော

hta dho — Which has been placed or kept; stored

လက်ရေးမူ

let yay mu — Handwriting; handwritten original manuscript

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with someone or something

ပတ်သက်၍

pat thek yway — Regarding; concerning; in relation to something

ညှိနှိုင်း

nyi hnine — To negotiate, coordinate, or discuss mutually

ဆွေးနွေး

sway nway — To discuss, deliberate, or converse about something

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

ဝမ်းသာ

wan tha — Happy, glad, pleased about something

ပါသည်

pa dhi — Polite sentence-final affirmative particle (formal)

သို့သော်

thote dho — However; but; nevertheless, contrasting previous statement

အဆိုပြု

a hso pyu — To propose, suggest, or put forward a proposition

စည်းကမ်းချက်

si gam jet — Terms, conditions, or rules of an agreement

များကို

mya go — Plural marker with object case; the (things)

မည်သည့်

myi dhin — Whichever; whatever; any particular one

နည်း

ne — Method, way, manner; how to do something

မျှ

hmya — Even; only; merely; just (emphasis particle)

လိုက်လျော

laiq lyo — To comply, accommodate, or go along with

နိုင်မည်

naing myi — Will be able to; future ability marker

မဟုတ်

ma hoat — Is not; negation of identity or existence

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; please; softening request or statement

ထို

hto — That; those; referring to a specific thing

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object, or subject

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

သည်

dhi — Topic or subject marker; present tense particle

အလွန်

a lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly, to a great degree

မသေချာ

ma thay cha — Uncertain, unsure, not definite or confirmed

လှ

hla — Beautiful, pretty, lovely in appearance

စာရေး

sa yay — To write; writing; writer or author

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into noun forms

ဆိုသည်မှာ

hso dhi hma — Meaning that; what is meant is; that is

လုံးဝ

lone wa — Completely, absolutely, entirely, at all

ကံစမ်း

kan san — To try one's luck; gamble on a chance

မဲနှိုက်

meh hnait — To draw lots; pick randomly by lottery

သကဲ့သို့

tha keh thote — Like; as if; similar to something described

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphasis particle reinforcing a statement

ခေတ်

khet — Era, age, period, epoch in time

၏

eh — Possessive particle; of; belonging to (formal/literary)

အထင်ကရ

a htin ga ya — Notable, prominent, remarkable, distinguished person or thing

ဆုံးသော

zone dho — That ended; final; last of a series

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

puq gaung — Person, individual, personality (formal or literary)

လက်ရာ

let ya — Work, craftsmanship, creation, artistic piece

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

နစ်နာ

nit na — To suffer loss, be harmed or disadvantaged

ဆုံးရှုံး

zone shone — To lose, suffer defeat or deprivation

ခဲ့ဖူး

kheh phu — Have previously done; past experience marker

အသေးစိတ်

a thay zate — Details, specifics, detailed information about something

ကိစ္စ

kait sa — Matter, affair, issue, case to be dealt with

အမည်

a myi — Name; title; designation of a person or thing

ဖော်ပြ

phaw pya — To indicate, show, describe, or mention explicitly

နိုင်သည်

naing dhi — Is able to; can; capable of doing something

မပြော

ma pyaw — Not saying; not speaking; without mentioning

လို

lo — To need, want; like; similar to something

မြို့

myoe — Town, city, urban settlement

ဝါသနာ

wa tha na — Hobby, passion, interest, personal inclination

စိတ်ကြိုက်

sate kyaiq — Preference, liking; as one pleases or desires

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating action or legal case

ပြောင်းလွယ်

pyaung lweh — Easy to change; flexible, adaptable, modifiable