The King in Yellow — Page 5

Vocabulary

သူ၏

thu yi — His; possessive pronoun referring to a male

အမှား

a hmar — Mistake; error; something done incorrectly

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person pronoun

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

အဆင်

a hsin — Level; degree; compatibility; suitability

ညီ

nyi — Equal; matching; suitable; younger sibling

အောင်

aung — To succeed; to pass; so that it works

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loat — To do; to perform; to carry out an action

မည်

myi — Will; future tense marker in formal writing

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; me; first-person pronoun used by males

ပြုံး

pyoun — To smile; showing a gentle facial expression

ရင်း

yin — While doing; originating from; as a source

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell someone something

ကြား

kya — To hear; between; in the middle of

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker; did; went away previously

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; completion marker in sentences

သည်

thi — Present tense sentence-final particle; is

အပြည့်အဝ

a pyin a wa — Fully; completely; to the fullest extent

ရယ်

ye — To laugh; particle adding emphasis or softness

မော

maw — To be tired; exhausted from effort or activity

ကာ

ka — While; as; linking particle indicating simultaneous action

တစ်ခါ

tit kha — Once; one time; on one occasion

တစ်ရံ

tit yan — Sometimes; occasionally; at some times

လာ

la — To come; to arrive; directional verb toward speaker

ရောက်

yout — To arrive at; to reach a destination

ကြည့်ရှု

kji shu — To watch; to observe; to view carefully

ရန်

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

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun daw — My; possessive form of first-person male pronoun

အား

a — To; object marker; strength; energy; free time

တောင်းဆို

taung soe — To request; to demand; to ask for something

အကြွေး

a kjwe — Debt; money owed to another person

ချေ

che — To repay; to pay off a debt or obligation

အခွင့်အရေး

a khwin a ye — Right; opportunity; privilege; entitlement

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; able to do

လိမ့်

lain — Will probably; expectation marker; to roll

မျှော်လင့်

myaw lin — To hope; to expect; to look forward to

ထို

htoe — That; those; demonstrative pronoun for distant things

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

သော်လည်း

thaw le — However; although; but; nonetheless; concessive conjunction

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; agent marker

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no; female honorific

ပေး

pe — To give; to provide something to someone

ဘဲ

bhe — Without doing; instead of; rather than

စောင့်

saung — To wait; to guard; to watch over something

သူ့

thu — His; him; possessive/object form of he/she

မြင်း

myin — Horse; a large domesticated riding animal

ပေါ်မှ

paw hma — From on top of; off of a surface

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop; to descend downward

ဆင်း

hsin — To descend; to get down; to go down

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or matter

ကံ

kan — Luck; fate; fortune; karma

ကောင်း

kaun — Good; well; fine; positive quality

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner; -ly

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle; also

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which; who

ရလဒ်

ya lat — Result; outcome; consequence of an action

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; a lot of something

ကျန်

kyan — Remaining; left over; the rest of something

ရစ်

yit — To remain; to stay behind; to be left

မျှ

hmya — Only; just; merely; as much as; equal

မက

ma ka — Not only; besides; in addition to that

သေး

the — Yet; still; small; emphatic negation particle

၏

yi — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone

စရိုက်

sa yout — Character; nature; innate personality trait

လက္ခဏာ

let kha na — Sign; characteristic; feature; distinguishing mark

တစ်ရပ်

tit yat — One particular; a certain kind or type

လုံး

loun — Whole; entire; round; all of something

ကို

ko — Object marker; to; toward; direct object particle

ပို

poe — More; excessively; comparatively greater amount

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung le — To change; to transform; to become different

မြို့

myoe — Town; city; urban settlement or municipality

ပေါ်က

paw ka — From on top; on the surface of something

ပျင်းရိ

pyin yi — Lazy; idle; lacking motivation to work

လူငယ်

lu ngeh — Young person; youth; young adult individual

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; a single individual

မှ

hma — From; only; since; ablative case marker

တက်ကြွ

tat kjwa — Active; energetic; enthusiastic; lively and spirited

စွမ်းအင်

swan in — Energy; power; capability; driving force

ပြည့်ဝ

pyin wa — Full; complete; abundant; sufficient in supply

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htain thein — To maintain; to preserve; to keep under control

တတ်

tat — To be able to; to know how to do

အရှိ

a shi — Reality; what truly exists; the truth

ဆုံး

hsoun — End; most; superlative marker; to be lost

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; instructional marker

အော်

aw — To shout; to yell; to cry out loudly

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; object; something in general

အားလုံး

a loun — Everyone; everything; all; the whole group

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

အထက်

a htet — Above; upper; superior; higher in position

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; restrictive emphasis particle

တက်လို

tat lo — Wanting to advance; desire to improve or rise

တက်ကြူ

tat kyu — To study diligently; to attend school eagerly

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to happen; to occur

ဒုက္ခ

doat kha — Suffering; hardship; difficulty; pain or misery

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or object

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is/are

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; self; reflexive pronoun for any person

အေးချမ်း

e chan — Peaceful; calm; cool and tranquil; serene

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tain — Oneself; personally; by oneself; own self

ဆက်လက်

hset let — To continue; to proceed; to keep on doing

နေ

ne — To live; to stay; to be; continuous marker

နာမှ

na hma — Only when it hurts; only upon suffering

ပြန်

pyan — To return; again; back; reverse direction

လန်း

lan — Fresh; refreshed; vibrant; to feel revived

သည့်

thi — Relative clause particle; which is; that is

ကာလ

ka la — Period; era; time span; duration of time

အတွင်း

a twin — Inside; within; during a period of time

ပထမ

pa hta ma — First; the earliest in order or sequence

အကြိမ်

a kjein — Time; occasion; instance; number of occurrences

ဝယ်ယူ

weh yu — To buy; to purchase; to acquire by payment

ဖတ်ရှု

phat shu — To read; to study written material carefully

သရုပ်ဆောင်

tha yout hsaung — Actor; to act; to perform a role

ပြီးဆုံး

pyi hsoun — To finish; to complete; to come to an end

နောက်

nout — After; behind; next; following in sequence

ရပ်

yat — To stop; to halt; to stand still

တန့်

tan — To stop; to pause; to be halted

သင့်

thin — Should; ought to; you; appropriate; suitable

တော်

taw — Skilled; suitable; royal honorific; to be fit

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; feeling; intention; mental state

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; into; locative particle

ဝင်

win — To enter; to go inside; to join

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Because; that; nominalizing clause-linking particle

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi — To remember; to recall; to recollect something

ထ

hta — To get up; to rise; to stand up

လိုက်

lout — To follow; to go along; directional verb particle

စာအုပ်

sa oat — Book; a bound written or printed publication

မီးဖို

mi hpo — Fireplace; stove; cooking fire area

ပစ်

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

ချ

kha — To place down; to put down; to lower

အုပ်

oat — To cover; to govern; a flock or group

သံ

than — Sound; voice; iron; metal; tone of voice

ကန့်လန့်

kan lan — Crosswise; diagonally; transversely placed or positioned

ဆန်ခါ

hsan kha — Sieve; to sift; to filter out particles

တပ်

tat — To attach; to install; military unit or camp

ထား

hta — To place; to put; to keep; to leave

မီးခုံကြာ

mi khon kja — Candelabra; tall candle holder or chandelier

ထိ

hti — Until; up to; as far as; to touch

မိ

mi — To catch; to get; reflexive verbal complement

မီးရောင်

mi yaung — Firelight; the light produced by a flame

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative case marker

မီးစာ

mi za — Fuel; material used to feed a fire

ခုံ

khoun — Chair; stool; seat; a piece of furniture

ပေါ်

paw — On; above; on top of a surface

ဖွင့်

phwin — To open; to turn on; to unfold something

လျက်

lyet — While; in the state of; literary continuous marker