The Hound of the Baskervilles — Page 1

Vocabulary

မစ္စတာ

mis-sa-ta — Mister; formal title for an adult male

တစ်ညလုံး

ta' nya lon: — All night long; throughout the entire night

နိုးနေသည့်

noe: ne thi. — Being awake; remaining alert and not sleeping

အကြိမ်များကို

a-kyeim mya: go — The times/instances (object); referring to multiple occurrences

ချန်လှပ်လျှင်

chaan hla' hlyin — If one skips or omits; leaving something out

မနက်ခင်းများတွင်

ma-na' chin: mya: twain — In the mornings; during morning hours generally

များသောအားဖြင့်

mya: thaw a: hpyin — Generally; for the most part, usually

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely, to a great degree

နောက်ကျတတ်သူ

nau' kja ta' thu — A person who is habitually late

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyi' pyi: — Being; having become, and then furthermore

မနက်စာ

ma-na' sa — Breakfast; the morning meal

စားပွဲတွင်

sa: bwe twain — At the dining table; on/at a table

ထိုင်နေသည်။

htain ne thi. — Is sitting; remaining in a seated position

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kjana' thi. — I (male subject marker); formal first-person male pronoun

ကော်ဇောပေါ်တွင်

kaw-zaw baw twain — On the carpet; upon the floor rug

ရပ်နေရင်း

ya' ne yin: — While standing; remaining in a standing position

ညတုန်းက

nya doun: ga — Last night; during the previous night

ဧည့်သည်

ei' thi. — Guest; visitor who comes to one's home

ထားခဲ့သော

hta: khe thaw — That was left behind; having placed and departed

တုတ်ကို

tou' go — The stick/cane (object marker); a walking stick

ကောက်ယူလိုက်သည်။

kau' yu lai' thi. — Picked up; took hold of by reaching down

ထိုတုတ်သည်

hto tou' thi. — That stick is; referring to that particular cane

ထိပ်ဖျား

htei' hpya: — Tip; the very top or end of something

ဝိုင်းပြီး

wain: pyi: — Being round; having a rounded or circular shape

သေသေသပ်သပ်

the the tha' tha' — Neatly; in a tidy and well-finished manner

ရှိသော

shi thaw — That has/possesses; existing or present in some form

ထူသော

htu thaw — Thick; having considerable depth or density

သစ်သားတုတ်

thi' tha: tou' — Wooden stick/cane; a stick made of wood

တစ်ချောင်း

ta' chaung: — One (stick-shaped object); classifier for long objects

ဖြစ်ကာ

hpyi' ka — Being; it is, serving as a transitional phrase

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; used to indicate reported speech

လူသိများသော

lu thi mya: thaw — Well-known; widely recognized by many people

အမျိုးအစား

a-myo: a-sa: — Type; kind or category of something

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyi' thi. — Is; it is (statement-ending copula verb)

အောက်တွင်

au' twain — Below; underneath or at the lower part

တစ်လက်မ

ta' le' ma — One inch; a unit of length measurement

နီးပါး

ni: ba: — Nearly; approximately, close to a certain amount

အကျယ်ရှိသော

a-kje shi thaw — Having width; possessing a certain breadth or width

ငွေရောင်

ngwe yaung — Silver-colored; having the appearance of silver metal

ရှိနေသည်။

shi ne thi. — There is/exists; something is present and remaining

သို့၊

thoe. — To; or, indicating alternatives or direction

မိတ်ဆွေများ

mei' hswe mya: — Friends; close companions or acquaintances (plural)

ထံမှ

htan hma — From; originating from a person or source

ဟူသော

hu thaw — Which says/reads; introducing a quoted text or inscription

စာသားနှင့်

sa tha: hnin — With the inscription; together with text or writing

ရက်စွဲကို

ye' zwe go — The date (object); a specific calendar date

ထိုနေရာတွင်

hto ne ya twain — At that place/spot; in that particular location

ထွင်းထားသည်။

htwing hta: thi. — Is engraved; has been carved or inscribed into a surface

ရှေးဟောင်း

she: haung: — Old-fashioned; ancient, of an earlier era

မိသားစု

mi tha: zu — Family; a household or family group

ဆရာဝန်များ

hsaya wan mya: — Doctors; medical practitioners (plural)

ဆောင်လေ့ရှိသည့်

hsaung le shi thi. — That habitually carry; accustomed to bringing or bearing

တုတ်မျိုး

tou' myo: — Type of stick/cane; a variety of walking stick

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

goun thei'kha — Dignity; prestige and honorable reputation

ရှိပြီး

shi pyi: — Having; possessing something and furthermore

ခိုင်မာ

khaing ma — Sturdy; strong and firm in construction

ပြောင်မြောက်ကာ

pyaung mjau' ka — Being excellent; skillfully made and impressive

စိတ်ချရသော

sei' chja ya thaw — Reliable; trustworthy and dependable object or person

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; an object or item generally referred to

ဘယ်လိုလဲ

be lo le: — What do you think?; how does it seem to you

ဒါနဲ့

da ne — About this; with regard to this matter

ပတ်သက်ပြီး

pa' htha' pyi: — Regarding; in connection with or related to something

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative word asking about something

ထင်သလဲ?

htin tha le:? — What do you think?; asking for someone's opinion

ကျွန်တော့်ဆီသို့

kjana' hsi thoe. — Toward me; in my direction (male speaker)

ကျောမူ၍

kjaw mu. ywe — Turning one's back; facing away from someone

ထိုင်နေပြီး

htain ne pyi: — Sitting and; being seated while doing something else

မိမိ

mi mi — One's own; reflexive pronoun indicating oneself

လုပ်ဆောင်နေသည့်

lou' hsaung ne thi. — That is being done; currently engaged in an activity

အကြောင်းကို

a-kjung: go — The matter/reason (object); the subject or cause

လုံးဝ

loun: wa — Completely; totally, not at all (with negation)

မပြမိသေးပေ။

ma pya mi the: be. — Have not yet shown; failed to reveal so far

ကျွန်တော်

kjana' — I; first-person pronoun used by male speakers

လုပ်နေသည်ကို

lou' ne thi. go — What I am doing (object); the action being performed

မင်း

min: — You; second-person pronoun, informal or equal register

ဘယ်လို

be lo — How; in what way or manner

သိသလဲ?

thi tha le:? — How did you know?; questioning someone's knowledge

ခေါင်း

khaung: — Head; the uppermost part of the body

နောက်မှာ

nau' hma — At the back; behind something or someone

မျက်စိတွေ

mje' si dwe — Eyes; the organs of sight (plural/colloquial)

ရှိနေတယ်လို့

shi ne de lo. — Saying that there are; claiming eyes exist somewhere

ထင်တယ်။

htin de. — I think; expressing a personal opinion or belief

အနည်းဆုံးတော့

a-ni: hsoun: daw — At the very least; at a minimum however

ကျွန်တော့်

kjana'. — My; possessive form of first-person male pronoun

ရှေ့မှာ

she. hma — In front; positioned before or ahead of something

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung: kaung: — Well; properly, in a good or thorough manner

ပွတ်တိုက်ထားသော

pwa' tai' hta: thaw — That has been polished; rubbed to a shine

ကော်ဖီဖိုး

kaw-hpi hpo: — Coffee pot; a vessel used for brewing coffee

တစ်လုံး

ta' loun: — One (round object); classifier for pot-shaped items

ရှိနေတာပေါ့

shi ne da baw. — There it is, you see; something is obviously present

သူ

thu — He/she; third-person singular pronoun

ပြောသည်။

pyaw thi. — Said; spoke or uttered words

ဒါပေမယ့်

da be me. — But; however, introducing a contrasting statement

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kjana' to. — We; first-person plural inclusive (male speaker)

ဧည့်သည်ရဲ့

ei' thi. ye. — Our guest's; belonging to the visitor

တုတ်နဲ့

tou' ne — With the stick/cane; together with the walking cane

ထင်သလဲ?

htin tha le:? — What do you think?; asking for an opinion

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him/her (object); third-person singular object marker

လွဲချော်ခဲ့ပြီး

lwe chaw khe pyi: — Having missed; failed to meet someone who visited

သူ့

thu. — His/her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

လာရင်း

la yin: — The purpose of coming; reason for visiting

အကြောင်းကိုလည်း

a-kjung: go le: — Also the reason; the purpose as well

မသိတာ

ma thi da — Not knowing; the fact of being unaware

ကံမကောင်းသော်လည်း၊

kan ma kaung: thaw le: — Although unfortunate; even though it is bad luck

ဤ

i — This; formal/literary demonstrative pronoun for nearby item

မတော်တဆ

ma taw da' — Accidentally; by chance, not intentionally left behind

ကျန်ခဲ့သော

kjan khe thaw — That remained behind; left inadvertently by someone

အမှတ်တရသည်

a-hma' ta ya thi. — The memento/keepsake is; an object left as a reminder

အရေးပါ

a-ye: ba — Important; significant and of considerable consequence

လာတော့သည်။

la daw thi. — Has become; now comes to be significant

ထိုတုတ်ကို

hto tou' go — That stick (object marker); referring to that specific cane

စစ်ဆေး

si' hse: — Examine; to inspect or investigate carefully

ခြင်းဖြင့်

chin: hpyin — By means of; through the act of doing something

ဖော်ထုတ်

hpaw htou' — Reveal; to bring out or uncover hidden information

မလဲဆိုတာ

ma le: hso da — Whether we cannot; questioning the possibility of discovery

ကျွန်တော်

kjana' — I; first-person male pronoun (repeated for emphasis)

နားထောင်

na: htaung — Listen; to pay attention to what someone says

ချင်တယ်။

chin de. — Want to; expressing desire to do something