The Souls of Black Folk — Page 4

Vocabulary

သူတို့က

thu-toh-ka — They (subject marker); referring to a group

ပြောကြသည်၊

pyaw-kya-deh — They say; people speak or tell

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My; first-person possessive (male speaker)

မြို့မှာ

myoh-hma — In the town; located within a city

အရည်အချင်း

a-yeh-a-chin — Quality, ability, or qualification of a person

ကောင်းတဲ့

kaung-deh — Good; having positive qualities or attributes

အရောင်အသား

a-yaung-a-tha — Skin color; complexion or racial appearance

ရှိတဲ့

shí-deh — That exists; having or possessing something

လူ

lu — Person; human being or people

တစ်ယောက်ကို

tit-yout-go — To one person; object marker for individual

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; first-person pronoun used by male speaker

သိတယ်လို့၊

thi-deh-lo — That (someone) knows; quotative knowledge claim

ဒါမှမဟုတ်

da-hma-ma-hout — Or else; otherwise; introducing an alternative

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle indicating location

တိုက်ခဲ့တယ်လို့၊

tite-kheh-deh-lo — That (someone) struck or attacked; quotative past

ဒီ

di — This; demonstrative pronoun indicating nearness

တောင်ပိုင်း

taung-pine — Southern part; southern region or direction

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive or topic particle; belonging to something

ရက်စက်မှု

yet-set-hmu — Cruelty; brutal or savage treatment of others

တွေဟာ

tway-ha — These things; topic marker for plural nouns

သင့်

thin — Your; second-person possessive pronoun

သွေးကို

thway-go — Blood (object); referring to blood with object marker

ဆူပွက်

su-pwet — Boil; to seethe or bubble with anger

မေးကြသည်၊

may-kya-deh — They ask; people pose a question together

ထိုအခါ

tho-a-kha — At that time; then; at that moment

ပြုံးမိသည်၊

pyun-mi-deh — Smiled involuntarily; broke into an unintentional smile

သို့မဟုတ်

tho-ma-hout — Or; alternatively; introducing another option

စိတ်ဝင်စားဟန်

seit-win-sa-han — Showing interest; displaying an interested appearance

ပြသည်၊

pya-deh — Shows; displays or demonstrates something

အခြေအနေ

a-chay-a-nay — Situation; condition or state of affairs

လိုအပ်သလို

lo-ut-tha-lo — As needed; according to what is required

ဆူပွက်မှုကို

su-pwet-hmu-go — The agitation or boiling (object); intense emotion

တိုးညင်ညင်

toe-nyin-nyin — Gently; softly; in a calm quiet manner

ဖြစ်အောင်

phyit-aung — So that it becomes; in order to achieve

လျှော့ချသည်၊

hshaw-cheh-deh — Reduces; lessens or tones something down

အမှန်တကယ်

a-hman-ta-kyeh — Truly; really; in actual fact or reality

သော

thaw — That; relative clause particle modifying nouns

မေးခွန်း

may-khwan — Question; an inquiry or interrogative sentence

ဖြစ်သည့်

phyit-theh — That is; which is; relative clause marker

ပြဿနာ

pya-tha-na — Problem; issue or difficult situation to solve

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item or instance

ဖြစ်ရ

phyit-ya — To become; to happen or come to be

ခြင်းသည်

chin-deh — The act of; nominalizer for verbal action

မည်သို့

ma-tho — How; in what way or manner

ခံစားရ

khan-za-ya — To experience; to feel or undergo something

သနည်း

tha-neh — Question particle; how does it feel or seem

ဟူသော

hu-thaw — Called; known as; introducing a quoted term

မေးခွန်းကို

may-khwan-go — The question (object); referring to an inquiry

ရှားရှားပါးပါး

sha-sha-pa-pa — Rarely; seldom; not happening very often

သာ

tha — Only; merely; emphasis or restrictive particle

တုံ့ပြန်သည်။

tone-pyan-deh — Responds; reacts to something or someone

သို့သော်

tho-thaw — However; but; introducing a contrasting statement

ဖြစ်ခြင်းသည်

phyit-chin-deh — The fact of being; existence as a nominalized verb

ထူးဆန်းသော

htu-san-thaw — Strange; unusual or extraordinary in nature

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-tway-a-kyoun — Experience; personal encounter or lived knowledge

ဖြစ်သည်၊

phyit-teh — Is; exists; it becomes or it is so

သူငယ်

thu-ngeh — Young person; childhood friend or young one

ဘဝနှင့်

ba-wa-hnin — With life; together with one's existence

တွင်

twin — In; within; locative particle for enclosed spaces

မှလွဲ၍

hma-lwe-yway — Except for; apart from; other than

အခြား

a-chha — Other; another; different from what was mentioned

ဘာမျှ

ba-mya — Nothing at all; not anything whatsoever

မဖြစ်ဖူး

ma-phyit-phu — Has never been; never happened or occurred before

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person singular pronoun

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person; a single individual (formal)

အတွက်ပင်

a-twet-pin — Even for; specifically for a particular person

ထူးခြား

htu-cha — Unique; remarkable or distinctly different from others

လှသည်။

hla-deh — Is beautiful; is lovely or aesthetically pleasing

ထို

tho — That; demonstrative adjective indicating distance

ထုတ်ဖော်ချက်သည်

htoat-phaw-chet-teh — The expression or revelation is; stated disclosure

ပျော်ရွှင်စရာ

pyaw-shwin-za-ya — Joyful; something that brings happiness or delight

ကောင်းသော

kaung-thaw — Good; that which is positive or beneficial

ကလေးဘဝ

ka-lay-ba-wa — Childhood; the period of being a child

၏

ei — Possessive particle; of; belonging to something

အစပိုင်း

a-si-pine — Early part; beginning stage of something

နေ့ရက်

nay-yet — Days; period of time; calendar days

များတွင်

mya-twin — Among many; within a plural set of things

တစ်နေ့

tit-nay — One day; on a particular or single day

တည်းနှင့်

teh-hnin — With; together with; at the same time

ပင်

pin — Even; also; emphasis particle intensifying a point

ရုတ်တရက်

yoat-ta-yet — Suddenly; abruptly; without warning or preparation

ပေါ်ပေါက်

paw-poat — Appear; emerge or come into existence suddenly

လာတတ်သည်။

la-tat-teh — Tends to come; habitually appears or arrives

အရိပ်သည်

a-yit-teh — The shadow is; referring to a shade or shadow

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kyun-daw-go — Me (object); first-person object pronoun male speaker

ဖုံးလွှမ်း

phon-hlwan — Covers; envelops or overwhelms completely

သွားသည့်

thwa-theh — That went; which moved away or departed

အချိန်ကို

a-chain-go — The time (object); referring to a moment or period

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung-zwa — Well; clearly; in a good or thorough manner

မှတ်မိ

hmat-mi — Remember; recall something from memory

သေးသည်။

thay-deh — Still; yet; particle indicating continuation or completeness

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyun-daw-deh — I am; first-person subject with topic marker male

တောင်ကုန်း

taung-gone — Hills; hilly terrain or rolling highland areas

များပေါ်တွင်

mya-paw-twin — On the many; upon multiple hills or places

ရှိနေသော

shi-nay-thaw — That is present; that exists or remains there

ကလေးငယ်

ka-lay-ngeh — Young child; a small or very young child

တစ်ယောက်

tit-yout — One person; a single individual person

ဖြစ်ပြီး၊

phyit-pi — Being; having become; after being or existing

မှောင်မိုက်သော

hmang-mite-thaw — Dark; gloomy; murky in appearance or atmosphere

မြစ်သည်

myit-teh — The river is; referring to a river as subject

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting nouns or phrases

အကြား

a-kya — Between; among; in the space separating two things

ပင်လယ်သို့

pin-leh-tho — Toward the sea; in the direction of the ocean

ကြောက်ကောက်

kyout-kout — Fearfully; timidly; in a frightened or nervous manner

စီးဆင်း

si-sin — Flows; streams or runs downward continuously

နေသည့်

nay-theh — That stays; which is continuously present or flowing

နေရာတွင်

nay-ya-twin — In the place; at a particular location or spot

နေထိုင်

nay-tine — Lives; resides or dwells in a place

ခဲ့သည်။

kheh-deh — Did; past tense marker indicating completed action

သစ်သား

thit-tha — Wood; timber material used in construction

ဆောက်သော

soat-thaw — Built; constructed; that was made or erected

သေးငယ်

thay-ngeh — Small; tiny; of little size or extent

သည့်

theh — Relative clause particle; that which; the one

စာသင်ကျောင်း

sa-thin-kyaung — School; an educational institution for learning

တစ်ခုတွင်၊

tit-khu-twin — In one; within a single place or thing

တစ်ထုပ်

tit-htoat — One pack; a single bundle or packet of items

လျှင်

hshin — Per; for every; conditional or ratio particle

ဆယ်စင့်

seh-sin — Ten cents; a small monetary denomination

ရှိသော

shi-thaw — That has; which possesses or contains something

လှပသော

hla-pa-thaw — Beautiful; pretty; that which is attractive or lovely

လက်ကား

let-ka — Cards; playing cards or small printed cards

များကို

mya-go — The many (object); plural object marker

ဝယ်ပြီး

weh-pi — Having bought; after purchasing something

လဲလှယ်

leh-hleh — Exchange; trade or swap one thing for another

ကြရန်

kya-yan — In order to; so as to do something together

ကောင်လေး

kaung-lay — Boy; a young male child or boy

များနှင့်

mya-hnin — With many; together with a group of people

မိန်းကလေး

main-ka-lay — Girl; a young female child or girl

များ

mya — Many; plural marker for nouns in Burmese

ဦးနှောက်

u-hnout — Brain; the mind or intellectual organ

ထဲသို့

hteh-tho — Into; going inside or toward the interior

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-soon-tit-ya — Something; some unspecified thing or matter

က

ka — Subject marker particle; indicates agent of action

အတွေး

a-tway — Thought; idea or mental reflection

တစ်ခုကို

tit-khu-go — One thing (object); a single item being acted upon

ပြောင်းမြောက်

pyaung-myout — Successfully transforms; shifts or converts skillfully

သွင်းခဲ့သည်။

thwin-kheh-deh — Inserted; put or introduced something into something

လဲလှယ်မှုသည်

leh-hleh-hmu-deh — The exchange is; the act of trading or swapping

ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ

pyaw-shwin-zwa — Joyfully; happily; in a cheerful or delightful manner

ဖြစ်ပျက်

phyit-pyet — Happens; occurs or takes place; to transpire

နေသည်၊

nay-deh — Is happening; continues to exist or occur

မြင့်မားသော

myint-ma-thaw — Tall; high; elevated in stature or position

အသစ်

a-thit — New; fresh; recently arrived or made

ရောက်လာသူ

yout-la-thu — New arrival; someone who has just arrived

တစ်ယောက်က

tit-yout-ka — One person (subject); a single individual acting

ကတ်ကို

kat-go — The card (object); referring to a card being acted upon

လျစ်လျူရှုသော

lyit-lyu-shu-thaw — Dismissive; ignoring or treating with contempt

အကြည့်

a-kyi — A glance; a look or visual attention

တစ်ချက်

tit-chet — Once; one time; a single instance or moment

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; instrumental particle

ချက်ချင်း

chet-chin — Immediately; at once; without any delay

ငြင်းပယ်

nyin-peh — Rejects; refuses or denies outright

သည့်တိုင်အောင်

theh-tine-aung — Even though; despite; although something is the case

ပင်၊

pin — Even; still; emphasis particle highlighting a contrast

သူများနှင့်

thu-mya-hnin — With others; together with other people

ကွဲပြားသည်

kweh-pya-deh — Is different; differs or is distinct from others

ဆိုသည့်

so-theh — That says; which is called or known as

အချက်သည်

a-chet-teh — The point is; the fact or key element

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; directional particle for people

ရောက်လာသည်၊

yout-la-deh — Arrives; comes to reach a place or person

ထိုးထွင်းသိမြင်

htoe-thwin-thi-myin — Perceives deeply; gains insight or understanding

လာသည်၊

la-deh — Comes; arrives; approaches toward the speaker

ရင်ထဲ

yin-hteh — Inside the chest; within the heart or feelings

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life; existence; one's personal life journey

တမ်းတမှု

tan-ta-hmu — Longing; nostalgia or yearning for something past

တူညီ

tu-nyi — Same; identical; equal or matching in nature

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; well; positive or favorable quality

နိုင်သော်လည်း

nine-thaw-leh — Although able; even though it can be so

ကျယ်ပြန့်သော

kyeh-pyan-thaw — Wide; broad; expansive in scope or extent

ကုလားကာ

ka-la-ga — Curtain; a hanging fabric used to cover or divide

တစ်ခုဖြင့်

tit-khu-hpyin — With one; by means of a single thing

သူတို့

thu-toh — They; third-person plural pronoun

ကမ္ဘာမှ

ka-ba-hma — From the world; away from the wider world

တားဆီး

ta-si — Prevents; blocks or bars from doing something

ပိတ်ပင်

pite-pin — Forbids; prohibits or shuts off access to something

ထားသကဲ့သို့

hta-tha-keh-tho — As if kept away; as though placed apart or separated

ဖြစ်သည်ဟု

phyit-teh-hu — That it is so; quotative particle after a statement

သဘောပေါက်

tha-baw-poat — Realizes; understands or grasps the meaning of something

လာသည်။

la-deh — Comes; arrives; final verb indicating arrival or occurrence