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Vocabulary

ကွာရှင်းပြတ်စဲရေး

kwa shin pyat se yay — The matter or process of getting a divorce

တရားရုံးကို

taya youn go — To the court (of law)

မှတ်ဉာဏ်

hmat nyan — Memory; ability to remember things

များ

mya — Many; plural marker or adjective meaning numerous

ထူးဆန်း

htu san — Strange, unusual, or extraordinary

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that, which, who

ပုံစံ

pone san — Form, shape, style, or pattern

ဖြင့်

hpyin — By means of; with; using (instrumental particle)

ဖွဲ့စည်း

hpwe si — To form, organize, or establish a group

ထား

hta — To place, keep, or put aside; resultative particle

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person (third person pronoun)

အတွက်

a twet — For the sake of; for; because of

အထူး

a htu — Especially; special; particularly

တီထွင်

ti htwing — To invent, create, or devise something new

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; turns verb into abstract noun

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, or happen

သည်

thi — Present tense marker; topic marker particle

အို

o — Oh! Exclamation of surprise or address

ထို

hto — That; those (demonstrative pronoun, formal)

အကြောင်းအရာ

a kyaung a ya — Subject matter, topic, or content

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/particle)

ပတ်သက်

pat thate — To be related to; to concern; to involve

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; connective particle (formal)

ကြံဆ

kyan hsa — To think up, scheme, or contemplate

နေ

nay — To live, stay, or remain; continuous aspect marker

ဖို့

hpo — In order to; for the purpose of (purposive particle)

အသုံး

a thone — Use, usage, or utility

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not (negative marker)

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, or there is/are

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also means 'also' or 'too'

ကွာရှင်းပြတ်စဲ

kwa shin pyat se — Divorce; separation of a married couple

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an act or case

နတ်ဘုံ

nat bome — Heaven, paradise, or realm of spirits

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative or source particle

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

hpyit paw — To arise, occur, or come into being

လာ

la — To come; directional particle indicating movement toward

ယူ

yu — To take, get, or receive something

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; also enemy

လက်

let — Hand; arm; also used in compound words

ဆန့်

hsan — To stretch out, extend, or reach forward

ချက်ချင်း

chet chin — Immediately, at once, right away

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter, come in, or intrude

တားဆီး

ta si — To prevent, stop, or block someone

သခွားမွေး

tha khwa mway — Cucumber (the vegetable)

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, toward (accusative)

ထိ

hti — Until, up to, as far as (extent particle)

ယင်း

yin — That; those; referring back to previously mentioned thing

တို့

to — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

အဒေါ်

a daw — Aunt; respectful address for older woman

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle; also 'to order'

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

ပြီး

pyi — After; already done; completion particle

စား

sa — To eat; consume food

ဟုတ်

hote — True, correct, yes; to be right

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion or finality sentence particle

သင်

thin — You (second person pronoun, formal or educational)

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

အချိန်

a chein — Time; moment; period

တစ်လျှောက်လုံး

tit hlout lone — Throughout; all along; the entire duration

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker; away from speaker directional

လော

law — Question particle expressing wonder or uncertainty

ကိစ္စ

kit sa — Matter, affair, issue, or concern

လုံးဝ

lone wa — Completely, entirely, absolutely

ကွဲပြား

kweh pya — To be different, distinct, or separate

အရာ

a ya — Thing, object, matter, or item

သူမ

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

ကျွန်တော်

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

၏

e — Genitive particle; possessive marker (formal/written)

အောက်

out — Below, under, beneath, or lower

ပန်းကန်

pan gan — Plate, dish used for serving food

ပေါင်မုန့်

paung mone — Bread (loaf or sliced bread)

ထောပတ်

hta pat — Butter (dairy spread)

နည်းနည်း

nyi nyi — A little, a small amount, slightly

အလွန်

a lwun — Very, extremely, excessively

ကြိုက်

kyite — To like, enjoy, or be fond of

နှစ်သက်

hnit thet — To be pleased with; to like or appreciate

စားပွဲ

sa bwe — Dining table; desk

ဆီ

si — Toward; in the direction of; also oil

သွား

thwa — To go; directional particle away from speaker

ကာ

ka — While doing; continuative or simultaneous action particle

မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်

mi mi ko tine — Oneself, by oneself, personally

တစ်ပါး

tit pa — Another person; other; one other

လည်း

le — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, well, fine, nice

ငါ့

nga — My; mine (first person informal possessive)

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu ngae chin — Friend, close companion

ရေ

yay — Water; also sentence-final intimate particle

ခင်ဗျား

kha bya — You (polite second person pronoun, male usage)

အားလုံး

a lone — All, everyone, everything, altogether

မည်

mi — Future tense marker (formal/written)

ဆို

so — To say; quotation marker; if (conditional)

သ

tha — Sentence particle indicating habitual action or fact

ကဲ့သို့

ke. tho — Like, similar to, as if

လို

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

အပ်

a — To entrust, hand over; also needle or sewing

ယခု

ya khu — Now, at present, currently

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, exactly (emphatic particle)

အိမ်ထောင်

ein daung — Marriage; household; married life

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop; to suit; directional particle downward

ပြုမူ

pyu mu — To behave, conduct oneself, act

သေး

thay — Still, yet; also small or tiny

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing; instead particle (negative gerund)

ထင်

hting — To think, believe, or suppose

ရင်

yin — If, when; conditional particle; also chest/breast

နောင်

naung — Future, later, afterward

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment; to weigh or measure

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (locative particle, formal)

နိုင်

nine — Can, be able to; to win or be capable

ဘာ

ba — What; what kind of (interrogative pronoun)

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, owing to

သို့

tho — To, toward (directional particle, formal)

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, or tell

နည်း

nyi — Method, way; few, little; also question particle

ပထမ

pa hta ma — First, primary, initial

ဦးဆုံး

u zone — First of all, foremost, at the very beginning

အချက်

a chet — Point, fact, item, or key detail

မိန်းကလေး

mein ga lay — Girl, young woman, female child

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun

နှပ်

hnate — To press down, suppress, or marinate

ကစား

ka sa — To play, to gamble, to engage in games

ယောက်ျား

yout kya — Man, male person, husband

လက်ထပ်

let htat — To marry, get married

လေ့

leh — Usually, habitually; to practice or train

ပြုလုပ်

pyu lote — To do, perform, or carry out an action

မှန်ကန်

hman kan — Correct, accurate, proper, right

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning 'saying that' (formal)

ကြ

kya — Plural or collective action particle for verbs

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a di pa yay — Meaning, definition, significance

မဲ့

meh — Without, lacking; future tense particle (informal)

စကား

za ga — Words, speech, language, conversation

ကြီးမား

kyi ma — Great, large, enormous, significant

အမှန်တရား

a hman ta ya — Truth, reality, the honest fact

နေရာ

nay ya — Place, location, spot, position

တကာ

ta ka — All, every, each one without exception

တွေ့မြင်

twe myint — To see, observe, or come across

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; can; resultative completion particle

အံ့ဩ

an o — To be amazed, surprised, astonished

ဖွယ်ရာ

hpweh ya — Worthy of; deserving; likely to cause a feeling

အရေအတွက်

a yay a twet — Number, quantity, count, amount

ရှင်းပြ

shin pya — To explain, clarify, or make clear

ဒုတိယ

du ti ya — Second, secondary (ordinal number)

သဘောတူညီချက်

tha baw tu nyi chet — Agreement, consensus, mutual understanding

ပေး

pay — To give, offer, or provide

ပထမဆင့်

pa hta ma hsing — First step, first stage, first level

မောင်နှမ

maung hna ma — Siblings; brother(s) and sister(s)