The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Page 9

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless, contrasting previous statement

ထို

htoe — That; those; referring to something previously mentioned

အချက်

a-chek — Point; fact; key detail or piece of information

ကို

ko — Accusative marker; to; toward a person or object

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphasis particle in Burmese sentences

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun used in formal contexts

သိ

thi — To know; to be aware of something

သည့်

thit — Relative clause marker; that which; adjectival particle

အတိုင်း

a-tine — According to; as per; in accordance with something

အားလုံး

ah-lone — All; everyone; everything; the entirety of a group

ရှင်းပြ

shyin-pya — To explain; to clarify something to someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

အဝေး

a-way — Far away; distance; a remote or distant place

ကြီး

ji — Big; large; great; used to indicate large size

ဖြစ်

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

သေး

thay — Still; yet; small; particle indicating continuation or smallness

သည်

thì — Present tense marker; declarative sentence-final particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; as stated

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person singular pronoun

က

ka — Subject marker; nominative case particle in Burmese

ထပ်လောင်း

htat-laung — Additionally; furthermore; to add on top

ပြော

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

လိုက်

like — To follow; directional verb particle indicating motion along

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; already done; completion particle

စကား

za-ga — Word; speech; language; spoken conversation

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; connective particle

အတူ

a-tu — Together; alongside; in the company of someone

တွေးတော

tway-taw — To ponder; to reflect deeply on something

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; case; matter; affair

နက်နဲ

nek-ne — Deep; profound; complex in meaning or thought

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which; adjectival linker

နယ်

ne — Region; territory; district; area or zone

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; into a space or container

သို့

thoh — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

ရောက်

yout — To arrive; to reach a destination or place

သွား

thwa — To go; to travel away from current location

လေ

lay — Sentence-final particle expressing mild assertion or reminder

အတွေး

a-tway — Thought; idea; mental reflection or contemplation

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case particle indicating origin

သူ့

thuh — His; her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

အတော်

a-taw — Quite; fairly; rather; moderately to a good degree

လေး

lay — Four; also a softening particle expressing endearment

ရုတ်တရက်

yout-ta-yet — Suddenly; abruptly; all at once without warning

မေး

may — To ask; to question someone about something

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; reason or cause marker

ပြန်လည်

pyan-le — To return; to go back; reciprocal or repetitive action

ရောက်ရှိ

yout-shi — To have arrived; to be present at a place

လာ

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

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle indicating place or location

ချက်လက်မှတ်

chet-let-hmat — Ticket; pass; written authorization for entry or travel

ရေးသား

yay-tha — To write; to compose written text or document

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place; location; position; spot where something exists

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle for place or time

နေထိုင်

ne-htine — To live; to reside; to dwell in a place

လား

la — Question particle; turns statement into yes/no question

ဆို

so — To say; quotative verb; to be called or named

မသိ

ma-thi — Do not know; unaware; lacking knowledge of something

ဘူး

bu — Negative sentence-final particle; never; not ever done

ဖြစ်နိုင်ချေ

phyit-nite-che — Possibility; likelihood; chance that something may occur

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is; to be present

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not; not true; negation of identity or state

ပြန်

pyan — To return; again; back; repetitive directional particle

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle; of; belonging to

လိပ်စာ

leit-za — Address; mailing or residential address of a person

သတိထား

tha-ti-hta — To be careful; to pay attention; to take notice

မိ

mi — To catch; to accidentally do; completive verb particle

တစ်ခုခု

ta-khu-khu — Something; some thing; an unspecified object or matter

ရင်ပြင်

yin-pyin — Open ground; esplanade; flat open area or courtyard

တံခါး

tan-ga — Door; gate; entrance to a room or building

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; please; included in a set

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — About; reason; subject matter; cause of something

တစ်ခါ

ta-kha — Once; one time; on one occasion

မျှ

hmya — Only; just; as much as; equative particle

မေးမြန်း

may-myan — To inquire; to ask questions formally or carefully

ဖူး

phu — Ever; experiential particle; have done before

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix; the act of; gerund-forming particle

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist; there is no; to be absent

ဆရာ

sa-ya — Teacher; master; respectful title for skilled person

ကျွန်တော်

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

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as a limit

မခံ

ma-khan — Cannot bear; cannot endure; to not withstand something

ချင်

chin — To want; desire particle expressing wish to do

ခံစားချက်

khan-za-chet — Feeling; emotion; sensation experienced by a person

ဖြေကြား

phyay-kja — To answer; to respond to a question formally

မေးခွန်း

may-khwan — Question; inquiry; something asked to gain information

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; a lot of something

ထုတ်

htout — To take out; to produce; to extract or publish

ရာ

ya — Hundred; place; nominalizing suffix in various contexts

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; excessively beyond normal degree

ခိုင်မာ

kine-ma — Strong; firm; solid; sturdy and not easily broken

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix; -ly; in a manner of doing

ခံစား

khan-za — To feel; to experience an emotion or sensation

၎င်း

dain-ji — He/she/it; formal third-person pronoun in written Burmese

တရားစီရင်

ta-ya-si-yin — To judge; to adjudicate; to render a legal verdict

ရက်

yet — Day; date; a specific calendar day

နေ့

nay — Day; daytime; used for days of the week or dates

ပုံစံ

pone-zan — Form; shape; style; pattern or manner of something

ဆင်တူ

zin-tu — Similar; resembling; alike in appearance or character

လှ

hla — Beautiful; pretty; attractive in appearance

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item or object

စတင်

za-tin — To start; to begin; to commence an action

ကျောက်

kyout — Stone; rock; gem; hard mineral material

တစ်လုံး

ta-lone — One piece; one unit of a round or whole object

လှိမ့်ချ

hlain-hja — To roll down; to push and tumble downward

တူ

tu — Same; alike; resembling; to be similar to something

တောင်ကုန်း

taung-gone — Hill; hillock; a small elevated landform

ထိပ်

hteit — Top; peak; summit; the highest point of something

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit-seit — Quiet; silent; peaceful; free from noise or disturbance

ထိုင်

htine — To sit; to sit down; to be seated

နေ

nay — To stay; to live; to be; continuous aspect particle

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; additive particle in Burmese

လှိမ့်

hlain — To roll; to rotate along a surface

လျက်

lyet — While; simultaneous action particle; -ing connective

အခြား

a-hja — Other; another; different; a separate item or person

ဆွဲ

zwe — To pull; to drag; to attract toward oneself

ခေါ်

khaw — To call; to name; to summon someone

မကြာမီ

ma-kja-mi — Soon; before long; in the near future

တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး

ta-zone-ta-u — Someone; a certain person; an unspecified individual

ဖျော်ဖြေ

pyaw-pyay — To entertain; to amuse; to provide entertainment

ဖွယ်

phwe — Worthy of; likely to; deserving of a certain feeling

အသက်

a-thet — Age; life; breath; one's years of living

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-zone — Last; final; ultimately; at the very end

အနေဖြင့်

a-nay-phyin — As; in the capacity of; in the position of

တွေး

tway — To think; to contemplate; to reflect on something

မည့်

myi — Future relative clause marker; that will; about to

နောက်ဖေး

nout-phay — Back; rear; the area behind a building or person

ဥယျာဉ်

u-yin — Garden; park; an outdoor area with plants

ဦး

u — Head; top; honorific prefix for respected persons

ချိုး

cho — To break; to fracture; to snap something apart

ခံ

khan — To endure; to receive; to bear or withstand something

ရ

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

တော့

taw — Now; then; sentence particle marking contrast or transition

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family; household; group of related family members

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; self; reflexive pronoun referring to the subject

တို့

toh — Plural marker; we; they; group particle for pronouns

နာမည်

na-myi — Name; title; what someone or something is called

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung-le — To change; to transform; to alter or shift form

လိမ့်မည်

lain-myi — Will; shall; future probability particle combination

စည်းမျဉ်း

zi-myin — Rule; regulation; guideline; established principle

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the role of; in the form or state of

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; to put and leave in position

ထူးဆန်း

htu-zan — Strange; unusual; extraordinary; surprisingly different

လမ်းကြောင်း

lan-kyaung — Path; route; course; direction of travel or action

နည်း

ni — Method; way; how; technique for doing something

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung-mwan — Good; excellent; virtuous; of high quality or character

ရှေ့နေ

shay-nay — Lawyer; attorney; legal representative in court

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tine — Oneself; personally; by one's own effort or presence

လေ့လာ

lay-la — To study; to learn; to investigate or research

ဆက်လက်

set-let — To continue; to proceed; to carry on doing something

ပြောဆို

pyaw-so — To speak; to say; to converse or communicate verbally

အိမ်

ain — House; home; dwelling place of a person or family

ခဲယဉ်း

khe-yin — Difficult; hard; not easy to do or understand

ပုံ

pone — Picture; image; shape; appearance or illustration

တစ်ပေါက်

ta-pout — Once; one hole; one opening; one brief moment

ဝင်

win — To enter; to go inside; to come into a place

ထွက်

htwet — To exit; to go out; to leave a place

မည်သူ

myi-thu — Who; whoever; which person in a question

ကြာမြင့်

kja-myin — Long time; duration; to take a long period

ဆဲ

ze — Still; continuing; ongoing action at present moment

တစ်ကြိမ်

ta-kyein — Once; one time; a single occasion or instance

ကြိမ်

kyein — Time; occasion; counter for number of times done

အတွင်း

a-twin — Within; inside; during a period or space

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat-lan — Story; plot; narrative of a film, book, or tale

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To participate; to be included; to take part in

မင်းသား

min-tha — Actor; male lead; prince or male protagonist

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; limiting or emphatic particle