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Vocabulary

သူမနှင့်

thu-ma hnin — with her; conjunction linking her to something

လက်ထပ်ခွင့်ပြုမည်မဟုတ်မီ

let-htat khwin pyu myit ma hout mi — before permitting marriage; prior to granting consent

သင်သည်

thin thit — you are; subject marker referring to second person

နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော

hnin pat thut thaw — related to; concerning a particular subject or person

မေးခွန်းအားလုံးကို

mè-khun ā-loun go — all questions; referring to every question asked

ရှင်းလင်းရမည်

shyin-lin ya myit — must clarify; required to explain clearly

ခေါင်းလောင်းတီးသည်

khoun-laun tì thit — the bell rings; a bell is struck

သင်

thin — you; second person singular pronoun

ဘာကိုဆိုလိုသနည်း

ba go so lo tha nei — what do you mean; asking for clarification

ဆိုတာ

so ta — called; known as; that which is named

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; first person singular pronoun used by males

ဆိုသောနာမည်ဖြင့်

so thaw na-myi hpyin — by the name of; under that particular name

မည်သူမျှ

myi thu myha — nobody; not anyone at all

မသိပါ

ma thi ba — do not know; polite negation of knowledge

ဝင်လာသည်

win la thit — enters; comes inside a room or space

သည်

thit — topic or subject marker particle in Burmese

ယခင်တစ်ကြိမ်

ya-khin tit kheim — on a previous occasion; once before

ဤနေရာတွင်

i nè-ya twin — at this place; here in this location

ညစာစားသောအခါ

nya-za za thaw a-kha — when dining in the evening; at dinner time

ဆေးသောက်ခန်းထဲ

sè-thout khán htè — inside the smoking room; within that room

ချန်ထားခဲ့သော

chán hta khè thaw — left behind; forgotten or placed and not taken

ဆေးလိပ်သေတ္တာကို

sè-leit thet-ta go — the cigarette case; referring to that specific box

ယူခဲ့ပါ

yu khè ba — please take it; polite request to take something

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hout-kè — yes sir; polite affirmative response

ဆရာ

sa-ya — master or sir; respectful address to a superior

ထွက်သွားသည်

thwet thwa thit — exits; goes out and leaves the place

ဤအချိန်တစ်လျှောက်လုံး

i a-chein tit hlaut loun — all this time; throughout the entire duration

သင့်တွင်

thín twin — with you; in your possession or care

ကျွန်တော်၏

kya-naw ei — my; possessive form of first person male pronoun

ဆေးလိပ်သေတ္တာ

sè-leit thet-ta — cigarette case; a container for holding cigarettes

ရှိနေသည်ဟု

shi nè thit hú — that it exists or is present somewhere

ဆိုလိုသနည်း

so lo tha nei — what do you mean; asking for intended meaning

သင်က

thin ga — you; subject particle emphasizing the second person

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kya-naw go — me; object form of first person male pronoun

အသိပေးခဲ့ပါက

a-thi pè khè ba ga — if you had informed me; conditional past notification

ကောင်းမည်ကို

kaun myit go — that it would have been good or better

တောင်ဆုမွန်ပေးပါသည်

taun su mwan pè ba thit — earnestly wish or hope for something good

ယင်းနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍

yin hnin pat thut yway — regarding that matter; in connection with it

သို့

thó — to; directional particle indicating destination or recipient

စိတ်ကြပ်ရမ်းကားသော

seit kyet yam ga thaw — agitated and distressed; emotionally distressed letters written

စာများ

sa mya — letters; multiple written communications or documents

ရေးနေခဲ့သည်

yè nè khè thit — had been writing; was continuously writing something

ကြီးမားသောဆုငွေ

kyi-ma thaw su ngwè — a large reward or prize money offered

ကမ်းလှမ်းတော့မည်

kán hlán daw myit — will soon offer; about to present an offer

ဆဲဆဲ

zè-zè — just about to; on the very verge of

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

pyit khè thit — it happened; something occurred in the past

ကောင်းပြီ

kaun byi — very well; expression of acceptance or acknowledgment

ကမ်းလှမ်းပါလျှင်

kán hlán ba hlyin — if one offers; conditional clause about making offer

ကောင်းမည်ဟု

kaun myit hú — that it would be good; hopeful expression

ဆန္ဒပြုပါသည်

sán-da pyu ba thit — expresses a wish; formally desires or requests something

ပုံမှန်ထက်

poun-mhan htut — more than usual; exceeding the normal amount

ပို၍

po yway — more; additionally beyond a standard measure

ငွေကြပ်တည်းနေသည်မှာ

ngwè kyat tì nè thit hma — being in financial difficulty; experiencing tight money situation

မကြာမီ

ma-kya mi — soon; in a short time from now

ဖြစ်တတ်သည်

pyit tat thit — tends to happen; usually occurs or is prone

ပစ္စည်းကို

pyit-si go — the item or object; referring to a thing

တွေ့ပြီးသောအခါ

twè byi thaw a-kha — once found; after discovering or encountering the item

ကမ်းလှမ်းရန်

kán hlán yan — to offer; purpose clause for making an offer

အကျိုးမရှိတော့ပေ

a-kyo ma shi daw bè — no longer useful; there is no benefit anymore

ဗန်းပြားပေါ်တွင်

bán-bya pau twin — on the tray; placed upon a flat serving tray

ဆေးလိပ်သေတ္တာနှင့်အတူ

sè-leit thet-ta hnin a-tu — together with the cigarette case; accompanied by it

ချက်ချင်းယူသည်

chet-chin yu thit — takes immediately; grabs something right away

ထိုသို့

tho thó — in that manner; like that; in such a way

ပြုမူခြင်းသည်

pyu mu chín thit — the act of behaving; conduct or behavior itself

သင်၏

thin ei — your; possessive form of second person pronoun

ကိစ္စကတော့

kéit-sa ga daw — as for your matter or affair; regarding your case

တော်တော်ကြေးမဲ့သည်ဟု

taw-taw kyè-mè thit hú — that it is quite shameless or brazen behavior

ပြောရမည်ဖြစ်သည်

pyaw ya myit pyit thit — must say; it is necessary to state this

သေတ္တာကို

thet-ta go — the box; object marker for a container or case

ဖွင့်၍

hpwin yway — having opened; after opening something up

စစ်ဆေးသည်

sit-sè thit — examines or inspects; checks something carefully

သို့သော်လည်း

thó thaw lè — however; nevertheless; conjunction showing contrast

ဤကိစ္စသည်

i kéit-sa thit — this matter; referring to the current issue

အရေးမကြီးပေ

a-yè ma-kyi bè — not very important; this matter does not matter much

အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်

a-bè-kyaun so thaw — because; the reason being; introducing an explanation

ယခု

ya-khu — now; at this present moment in time

အတွင်းရေးသားချက်ကို

a-twin yè-tha chet go — the inscription inside; written text within the item

ကြည့်လိုက်သောအခါ

kyi lait thaw a-kha — when looking at it; upon examining something closely

ထိုပစ္စည်းသည်

tho pyit-si thit — that item; referring to the previously mentioned object

နောက်ဆုံးတွင်

naut-zoun twin — in the end; finally; at the last moment

မဟုတ်ကြောင်း

ma-hout kyaun — that it is not; indicating negation of a fact

တွေ့ရသည်

twè ya thit — finds out; discovers or encounters something

ဟုတ်ကဲ့ပါ

hout-kè ba — yes indeed; polite and emphatic affirmative reply

၎င်းသည်

tit-kin thit — it is; referring to a previously mentioned subject

ဖြစ်သည်

pyit thit — is; to be; linking verb in Burmese

သူ့ထံ

thu htán — to him; toward that person's presence or location

ချဉ်းကပ်သည်

chin-kat thit — approaches; moves closer to someone or something

၎င်းနှင့်အတူ

tit-kin hnin a-tu — together with it; alongside that previously mentioned thing

တစ်ရာကြိမ်

tit-ya kheim — a hundred times; very many times repeatedly

မြင်ဖူးသည်

myin phu thit — has seen before; has experience of seeing it

ထို့ပြင်

tho byin — furthermore; in addition; beyond that point

အတွင်း၌

a-twin hna — inside; within a particular space or object

ရေးထားသည့်အရာကို

yè hta thít a-ya go — the thing that is written; written content inside

ဖတ်ရန်

phat yan — to read; purpose of reading something written

မည်သည့်အခွင့်အရေးမျှ

myi thit a-khwin a-yè myha — no right whatsoever; not any opportunity or entitlement

မရှိပေ

ma-shi bè — does not exist; there is none at all