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Vocabulary

ဆေးတောင်း

hsay taung: — To request or beg for medicine

များသည်

mya: thi — Is many; is numerous; is a lot

အလျင်း

a-ljin: — At all; in any way whatsoever

အသုံး

a-thone: — Use; utility; application of something

မကျ

ma kja — Does not fall; does not apply

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; please

နှင်း

hnin: — Dew; mist; frost on surfaces

ဆောင်း

hsaung: — Winter; cold season of the year

လုံး

lone: — Whole; entire; round-shaped classifier word

များကို

mya: go — To the many; plural object marker

မျိုချ

myo: hja — To swallow down; gulp something down

၍

yway — And so; therefore; connective particle

ကျွန်တော့်

kjoun-daw. — My; belonging to me (male speaker)

ခါးကို

kha: go — The waist; to the waist area

အေး

ay: — Cool; cold; calm and peaceful

စေ

say — Causative particle; to cause to do

သကဲ့သို့

tha-geh-tho. — Just as; like; similar to something

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphasis particle word

သင့်ကို

thin. go — To you; directed at you (formal)

အကြိမ်

a-kjein — Time; occasion; instance of occurrence

ကြိမ်

kjein — Time; instance; occurrence counter word

ပြော

pjaw — To speak; to say; to tell

ထား

hta: — To put; to keep; to place

ပြီး

pji: — After; finished; having completed something

ပြီ

pji — Already; completion marker particle word

ကျွန်တော်

kjoun-daw — I; me (polite male first person)

ကို

go — Object marker; to; toward (particle)

ရွှေ့

shway. — To move; to shift to another place

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; able

ခက်

kheh — Difficult; hard; not easy to do

သည်

thi — Is; are; present tense verb marker

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker particle; saying that

ပေါ့

paw. — Light; easy; softening sentence-final particle

ယနေ့

ya-nay. — Today; this present day currently

ဤ

i — This; formal/literary demonstrative pronoun

အချိန်

a-hsein — Time; period; moment of occurrence

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

၏

ay — Possessive or genitive particle word

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self; oneself; personal pronoun

ကျန်းမာ

kjan:-ma — Healthy; in good health; well

ရေး

yay: — Matter; affair; to write something

အကြောင်း

a-kjoun: — Reason; cause; about; concerning something

တစ်စုံ

tit-soon — Something; some; a certain thing

တစ်ရာ

tit-ya — One hundred; a hundred of something

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to realize

သင့်

thin. — You (formal); appropriate; suitable enough

သင်

thin — You (formal address); to learn something

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a-beh-kjoun. — Why; for what reason (formal/literary)

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (formal)

မျှ

hmya. — Only; just; as much as; equally

စိတ်ချ

seit-hja — To feel assured; to be at ease

ယုံကြည်

yone-kji — To believe; to trust; to have faith

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; to be (progressive)

သနည်း

tha-ni: — Question particle; is it? what is?

ကျေးဇူး

kjay:-zu: — Kindness; gratitude; favor; thank you

ပြု

pju — To do; to make; to perform

ဆေးစာ

hsay-za — Prescription; doctor's written medicine order

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One; a single thing; one piece

ထပ်

htat — Again; additionally; once more; another

ပေး

pay: — To give; to provide to someone

အင်္ဂါ

in-ga — Tuesday; second day of the week

တိုင်း

tine: — Every; each time; region; country

ဘီး

bi: — Wheel; comb; bicycle wheel

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; above; upon surface

ချိုးဖဲ့

hjo:-pheh. — To break apart; to fracture something

ခံ

khan — To bear; to endure; to receive

နာကျင်

na-kjin — To hurt; to be in pain

ကာ

ka — While; protecting; connective verbal particle

ဒဏ်ရာ

dan-ya — Wound; injury; physical bodily harm

အမှန်

a-hmun — Truth; truly; correct; in reality

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; feeling; mood; intention

နှင့်

hnin. — And; with; together with something

နှစ်ပါး

hnit-pa: — Both; two kinds; two parties together

စလုံး

sa-lone: — Both; all of them combined together

ညီမျှ

nyi-hmya. — Equal; equivalent; balanced; the same

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial particle; manner suffix word

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin:-yeh — Poor; suffering; in poverty; wretched

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko-pine — Own; personal; belonging to oneself

ဒုက္ခ

douk-kha — Suffering; hardship; misery; distress

များ

mya: — Many; much; plural marker particle

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no (negative)

လောက်

lout — About; approximately; enough; sufficient

သေး

thay: — Still; yet; small; tiny; furthermore

ညီမ

nyi-ma — Younger sister; female younger sibling

ကလေး

kha-lay: — Child; baby; young kid; small one

ထံ

htan — At; near; to (a person's presence)

အမြဲ

a-mjeh — Always; constantly; all the time

ညည်းတွား

nyi:-twa: — To groan; to moan in pain

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to happen; to become

ရင်းစမ်း

yin:-zan: — To probe; to examine; to investigate

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the capacity of; being

ကျန်

kjan — Remaining; left over; the rest

ခဲ့

kheh. — Past tense marker; went and did

ကြ

kja — Plural verb marker; together; collectively

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people; man

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; one's own; reflexive pronoun

အိမ်နီးနားချင်း

ain-ni:-na:-jin: — Neighbor; person living nearby next door

ညှဉ်းဆဲ

hnyin:-zeh — To torment; to bully; to abuse someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose; enemy

ဘာကြောင့်

ba-kjoun. — Why; because of what; what reason

ယူ

yu — To take; to bring; to fetch

မနေ့က

ma-nay.-ga — Yesterday; on the previous day

တူမ

tu-ma — Niece; younger female cousin

ဖြစ်ပျက်

phyit-pyeh — Incident; event; what happened; occurrence

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which; who

ရယ်စရာ

yeh-za-ya — Laughable; funny; something to laugh about

ကောင်း

kaung: — Good; nice; well; fine quality

သည့်

thi. — Relative marker particle; which; that (modifying)

ဖြစ်ရပ်

phyit-yat — Incident; event; case; situation that occurred

ရှုပ်ထွေး

shout-htway: — Complicated; confusing; complex; messy situation

ကြောင့်

kjoun. — Because of; due to; owing to

အဆစ်ရောင်

a-hsit-yaung — Joint inflammation; arthritis; swollen joint

ရောဂါ

yaw-ga — Disease; illness; sickness; medical condition

တစ်ကြိမ်

tit-kjein — Once; one time; a single occasion

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall (formal)

မျှော်လင့်

hmjaw-lin. — To hope; to expect; to anticipate something

သို့

tho. — To; toward; in the direction of

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not; no; negative verb (to be)

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Another; additional; furthermore; one more

စာ

za — Letter; writing; book; text; script

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tine — Oneself; personally; by one's own self

ရှင်း

shyin: — Clear; to explain; to clarify; neat

ပြ

pja — To show; to demonstrate; to display

နိုင်

nine — Can; able to; capable of doing

ပေ

pay — Sentence particle expressing obviousness; indeed

မနက်ဖြန်

ma-neh-phjan — Tomorrow; the next coming day

နံနက်

nan-neh — Morning; the early part of day

ခင်း

khin: — To spread; to lay out; open space

ရှိ

shi. — To have; to exist; to be present

ထွက်ခွာ

htweh-khwa — To depart; to leave; to go away

အလို

a-lo — Desire; wish; want; for the sake

ထက်

hteh — Than; more than; above; comparative particle

ပို

po — More; even more; to excess

ကြာ

kja — Long time; to take time; duration

ကြောက်

kjout — To fear; to be afraid; scared

မိ

mi — To catch; to accidentally do; resultative

ရရှိ

ya-shi. — To obtain; to acquire; to receive something

တပြိုင်နက်

ta-phyine-neh — Simultaneously; at the same time together

စီး

si: — To ride; to flow; stream; vehicle

စရာ

za-ya — Worth doing; reason to; something to do

မြင်း

mjin: — Horse; equine animal

ပစ်

pyit — To throw; to shoot; to discard; abandon

ကုန်ဆောင်

koun-hsaung — To transport; to carry goods; to convey

ကား

ka: — Car; vehicle; bus; transport

အတူ

a-tu — Together; along with; in company

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; spot; position; area

ပို့

po. — To send; to deliver; to transport

လိုက်

lite — To follow; to accompany; directional verb

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

haung:-nwan: — Old and worn out; dilapidated; shabby

ကျပ်ကျပ်

kjat-kjat — Tightly; firmly; snugly; with great tightness

ပုံ

pone — Picture; image; shape; form; manner

နှစ်ခု

hnit-khu — Two things; a pair of items

ဖောက်ထွင်း

phout-htin: — To pierce through; to penetrate; to perforate

ပြောင်းဖူး

pjaung:-phu: — Corn; maize; sweetcorn vegetable

ဈေး

zay: — Market; price; bazaar; marketplace

တင်

tin — To place on; to load; to submit

ဈေးနှုန်း

zay:-hnone: — Price; rate; cost of something

လျှင်

hlyin — If; when; conditional particle word

သာ

tha — Only; just; emphasis particle; better

လျှော့

hlhaw. — To reduce; to decrease; to lower

သား

tha: — Son; child; flesh; softening particle

ရောင်းချ

yaung:-hja — To sell; to vend; to trade goods

ထံမှ

htan-hma — From; originating from a person

နှာခေါင်း

hna-khaung: — Nose; the nasal organ on face

သပ်

that — Neat; tidy; clean; well-arranged

ဖွယ်

phweh — Worthy of; apt to; likely to

တစ်စောင်

tit-hsaung — One letter; one document; one copy

၎င်း

din-gi: — He/she/it/they; that aforementioned one (formal)

အများ

a-mya: — The majority; the public; many people

ရှေ့မှောက်

shay.-hmout — In front of; in the presence of

လက်ခံ

leh-khan — To accept; to receive; to acknowledge

ဝန်ချ

wun-hja — To confess; to admit; to acknowledge guilt

ကုန်ကျ

koun-kja — To cost; to be spent; expenses incurred

စရိတ်

za-yit — Expense; cost; expenditure; charge fee

ပေးဆောင်

pay:-hsaung — To pay; to render payment; to contribute

ကမ်းလှမ်း

kan:-hlam: — To offer; to propose; to extend an offer