The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 7

Vocabulary

ကျေးဇူး

kyay-zu — Thank you; grace, favor, kindness

ပြုပြီး

pyu-pyi — Having done; after doing something

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My (possessive, formal male first person)

စီးကရက်

si-ka-yet — Cigarette

သေတ္တာကို

thay-ta-go — The box (object marker attached)

ပြန်

pyan — Return, go back, again

ပေးပါ

pay-ba — Please give (polite request)

နောက်က

nauk-ka — Behind, from the back of

နေ

nay — To live, stay, be; sun

အခန်း

a-khan — Room, chapter, compartment

ပတ်လည်

pat-leh — Around, surrounding, encircling

လိုက်

lite — To follow, go along with

သွားသည်

thwa-the — Went, to go (formal past)

ဟုတ်

hote — Yes, correct, that is right

ကဲ့

keh — Like, similar to, as (comparison)

ဒါပေမယ့်

da-pay-meh — But, however, nevertheless

သင့်

thin — Your (second person possessive)

အရီးက

a-yi-ga — From the aunt (subject marker)

သင့်ကို

thin-go — To you (second person object)

သူမ

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

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive particle; of, belonging to

ဦးလေး

u-lay — Uncle (father or mother's brother)

လို့

lo — Because, so, quotation particle

ဘာကြောင့်

ba-kyaung — Why, for what reason

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, summon, name someone

တာလဲ

ta-leh — Question particle seeking explanation or reason

ကလေးလေး

ka-lay-lay — Little child, small child (endearing)

ထံမှ

htan-hma — From (a person), originating from someone

ချစ်

chit — To love, to like, affection

မြတ်နိုး

myat-no — To adore, cherish, hold dear

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; who/which/that

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, towards

ချစ်ခင်

chit-kin — Affection, fondness, loving kindness

မေတ္တာ

may-ta — Loving-kindness, goodwill, benevolence

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

တကွ

ta-kwa — Together with, along with, including

အရီး

a-yi — Aunt (elder female relative)

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yauk — One person, a single individual

ဟာ

ha — Topic marker; thing, matter (informal)

ကိုယ်ရည်

ko-yi — Personal character, one's own qualities

ကိုယ်သွေး

ko-thway — One's own blood, flesh and blood

သေးငယ်

thay-ngeh — Small, tiny, little in size

ပါတယ်

ba-deh — Polite affirmative sentence-final particle

ဆိုတာ

so-ta — What is called; as for (topic)

ကျွန်တော်

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

ဝန်ခံ

wun-khan — To admit, confess, acknowledge

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, already done

ကန့်ကွက်

kan-kwet — To object, oppose, protest against

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer particle; act of doing

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is none

ပါဘူး

ba-bu — Polite negative sentence-final particle

ဘယ်

beh — Which, where, what (question word)

အရွယ်

a-yway — Age, size, stage of development

ပဲ

peh — Only, just, emphatic particle

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

တူ

tu — Nephew; to be similar, resemble

တူမ

tu-ma — Niece (female nephew equivalent)

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, can, able

သလဲ

tha-leh — Question particle seeking information or confirmation

တော်တော်

taw-daw — Quite, rather, considerably, fairly

နားမလည်

na-ma-leh — To not understand, be confused

နိုင်ဘူး

nine-bu — Cannot, unable to do something

ထပ်ဆောင်း

htat-saung — Additionally, furthermore, to add more

ပြောရ

pyaw-ya — Must speak, need to say something

ရင်

yin — If, when, conditional particle

နာမည်

na-meh — Name, title of a person

မဟုတ်

ma-hote — Is not, not correct, negation

ဘူး

bu — Negative past or emphatic marker

သင်

thin — You (second person pronoun)

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myeh-dan — Always, constantly, at all times

ပြော

pyaw — To say, speak, tell, talk

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker; did, have done

တယ်

deh — Informal affirmative sentence-final particle

လူတိုင်း

lu-dine — Everyone, every person, all people

အဖြစ်

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

မိတ်ဆက်

mate-set — To introduce, make an introduction

ပေး

pay — To give, provide, offer something

ဆိုတဲ့

so-deh — Called, which is said to be

တုံ့ပြန်

tone-pyan — To respond, react, reply to

လို

lo — Like, want, need, similar to

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life, existence, one's lifetime

မှာ

hma — At, in, locative particle; order

တွေ့

tweh — To meet, encounter, find someone

ဖူး

phu — Ever (experience marker), have done

သမျှ

tha-mya — All, every, whatever, as much as

အထဲ

a-hteh — Inside, within, in the interior

အဆိုးသား

a-so-tha — The worst, most terrible (superlative)

ဆုံး

zone — Most (superlative), end, finish, meet

အသွင်

a-thwin — Appearance, guise, form, character

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, there is

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her (third person)

တာ

ta — Nominalizer; the fact of doing

လုံးဝ

lone-wa — Completely, entirely, absolutely, totally

အရူးအမူး

a-yu-a-mu — Madly, wildly, in a crazy manner

ကတ်

kat — Card; past completive verb particle

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within (locative particle)

ရေး

yay — To write; concerning, about something

ထား

hta — To keep, place, put aside

ဒီမှာ

di-hma — Here, at this place

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing, a single item

သေတ္တာ

thay-ta — Box, chest, safe, container

ကနေ

ga-nay — From, starting from, since

ယူ

yu — To take, bring, carry away

သည်

the — Formal present tense sentence-final particle

မစ္စတာ

mis-ta — Mister, Mr. (title for men)

၄

le — The number four (4)

သဲ

theh — Sand; informal question particle

တခြား

ta-kya — Other, another, different, else

ယောက်

yauk — Person classifier (counting people)

ငြင်း

nyin — To deny, refuse, reject, decline

ဖို့

pho — In order to, for the purpose

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try, make effort, strive hard

အထောက်အထား

a-htauk-a-hta — Evidence, proof, documentation, support

အနေနဲ့

a-nay-neh — In the position of, as, regarding

ဒါကို

da-go — This (object marker); regarding this

သိမ်း

thein — To keep, store, put away safely

မယ်

meh — Future tense marker; will, going to

သူ့

thu — His, her (third person possessive)

အိတ်ကပ်

ate-kat — Pocket, small bag or pouch

ထည့်

htneh — To put in, insert, add to

ကောင်းပြီ

kaung-pyi — Good now, alright then, very well

မြို့

myo — Town, city, urban area

နယ်မြေ

neh-myay — Territory, region, area, district

ဆိုပြီး

so-pyi — Saying that, having said, so saying

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — After that, then, and then

ကိုလည်း

go-leh — Also to, even (object with also)

ရရှိ

ya-shi — To obtain, acquire, receive, gain