The Expedition of Humphry Clinker — Page 4

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My (possessive form, male speaker)

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife, spouse (female partner in marriage)

သည်

thi — Is/are (present tense marker or topic marker)

မီးကင်

mi-kin — Grilled, barbecued food cooked over fire

ဒိန်ခဲ

dain-khe — Cheese, a dairy food product

ကို

go — Object marker or directional particle (to/at)

အလွန်

a-lun — Very, extremely, exceedingly much

နှစ်သက်

hnit-thet — To like, enjoy, be fond of something

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker (who/which/that)

သူ

thu — He, she, they (third person pronoun)

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Being, having become (connective clause marker)

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her (female third person pronoun)

သူ့

thu — His, her (possessive third person pronoun)

အား

a — Object marker indicating indirect object or recipient

လေးစား

le-za — To respect, honor, show deference to someone

လျက်

lyet — While doing, simultaneous action connector particle

နှုတ်ဆက်

hnout-set — To greet, say hello or goodbye to someone

ကာ

ka — While, as (connective particle linking clauses)

ယခင်

ya-khin — Previous, former, in the past

ခရစ်စမတ်

khrit-sa-mat — Christmas, the Christian holiday on December 25th

က

ga — Subject marker particle in a sentence

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me (first person pronoun, male speaker)

တို့

do — Plural marker or inclusive we/our pronoun

ထံ

htan — To, toward a person (directional particle)

ပို့ပေး

po-pe — To send, deliver something to someone

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action

ထို

hto — That, those (demonstrative pronoun pointing away)

အမျိုးအစား

a-myo-a-za — Type, kind, category, variety of something

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed (emphatic particle for emphasis)

လန်ဒန်

lan-dan — London, the capital city of England

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (locative particle)

ရောင်းချ

yaung-hja — To sell, put up for sale commercially

နေ

ne — To live, stay, or ongoing action marker

သေး

the — Still, yet (indicating continuation or negation)

သလား

tha-la — Question particle asking yes/no questions

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said/that (quoting speech)

သိ

thi — To know, be aware of something

လို

lo — To want, need, or like (desire particle)

ပါကြောင်း

pa-kyaung — Polite quotative ending indicating reported speech

တောင်းဆို

taung-so — To request, demand, ask for something formally

လိုက်

lait — Directional verb complement indicating action following along

ပါ

pa — Polite particle added to soften sentences