The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Page 3

Vocabulary

မီးခိုးရောင်

mee khoe yaung — Gray color, like smoke

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma hkout pè — Is not; negation expressing contrast or correction

သူသည်

thu thì — He/she is; third-person subject marker

ရှည်လျားသော

shè lya thaw — Long, elongated in shape or length

ပိတောက်ဆံပင်နှင့်

pi dout hsăn pin hnin — With golden/blonde hair

သေးငယ်သော

thè ngè thaw — Small, tiny in size

မည်းမည်းသော

myè myè thaw — Dark, very dark in color

မျက်လုံးများ

myat lone mya — Eyes (plural)

ရှိသည့်

shì thì — Which has; that exists or possesses

အနက်ရောင်

a nat yaung — Black color

ခွေးကလေး

khwè ga lè — Small dog, puppy

တစ်ကောင်

tit kaung — One animal; classifier for animals

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit pyi — Being; having become, and then

ထို

htoe — That, those; demonstrative pronoun

မျက်လုံးများသည်

myat lone mya thì — The eyes (subject marker attached)

သူ၏

thu yay — His, her; possessive pronoun

ရယ်စရာ

yè za ya — Funny, amusing, worth laughing at

လေး

lè — Particle adding endearment or softness to description

နှာခေါင်း

hna khăung — Nose

နှစ်ဘက်တွင်

hnit bèt twìn — On both sides

ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ

pyaw shwin zwa — Happily, joyfully

တလက်လက်

ta lat lat — Sparkling, gleaming repeatedly

တောက်ပ

taut pa — Bright, shining, gleaming

နေလေသည်

nè lè thì — Is doing (ongoing action particle)

တစ်နေ့တာ

tit nè da — All day, throughout the day

လုံး

lóun — All, whole, entire

ကစား

ga zá — To play, engage in games

နေလေပြီး

nè lè pyi — Was doing and then; ongoing then sequential

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well

သူ

thu — He, she, they (third person pronoun)

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction or comitative marker

အတူ

a tu — Together, along with

ကစားကာ

ga zá ga — Playing and (then); sequential play action

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him, her; third-person object marker

အလွန်

a lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly

ချစ်ခဲ့သည်

chit khè thì — Loved, was fond of (past tense)

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However, but, nevertheless

ယနေ့တော့

ya nè daw — But today, as for today

သူတို့သည်

thu doe thì — They (subject); third-person plural subject

နေကြ

nè kja — Are (doing); plural ongoing action marker

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer; turns verb into noun concept

ဦးလေး

Ù lè — Uncle (respectful term for older male)

တံခါးဝ

dăn ga waw — Doorway, entrance of a door

လှေကားတွင်

hlè ká twìn — On the stairs, at the staircase

ထိုင်ကာ

hting ga — Sitting and (then); seated action

မိုးကောင်းကင်ကို

moe kaung kin go — The sky (object marker); looking at sky

စိုးရိမ်

soe yain — To worry, be anxious about

သောက

thaw ga — Sorrow, distress, worry

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of; instrumental marker

ငေးကြည့်

ngè kji — To stare, gaze at intently

နေသည်

nè thì — Is (doing); present continuous marker

ကောင်းကင်သည်

kaung kin thì — The sky (subject); sky is/does

ပုံမှန်

pone hmăn — Normal, usual, ordinary

ထက်

htat — Than, more than; comparative marker

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphasis particle

ပို၍

poe yway — More, even more, increasingly

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, to become, to happen

ရင်ခွင်

yin khwin — Chest, bosom; embrace area

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within; locative marker

ကိုင်

kine — To hold, carry, grasp

ထားကာ

hta ga — Holding and (then); maintaining action

ရပ်

yat — To stand, stop, halt

နေပြီး

nè pyi — Is doing and (then); sequential ongoing

ကောင်းကင်ကို

kaung kin go — The sky (object marker)

ကြည့်

kji — To look, watch, observe

အန်တီ

An Ti — Auntie; respectful term for older woman

ပန်းကန်

pan gan — Plate, dish for food

များကို

mya go — Plural object marker; the (things)

ဆေးကြော

hsè kjaw — To wash, clean by washing

မြောက်ဖက်

myaut phat — North, northern direction

ဝေးလံ

wè lan — Far away, distant, remote

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that

နေရာမှ

nè ya hmah — From a place, from the location

လေ၏

lè yay — Of the wind; possessive wind marker

နိမ့်ကျ

nain kja — Low, falling down, declining

ငိုညည်းသံကို

ngoe nyi than go — The sound of moaning/wailing (object)

သူတို့

thu doe — They, them; third-person plural

ကြားလိုက်ရ

kja lite ya — Heard, managed to hear

ပြီး

pyi — And then, after, finished

တို့သည်

doe thì — Plural subject marker; they/we are

ရောက်လာ

yaut la — To arrive, come to reach

တော့မည့်

daw myì — About to, going to (near future)

မုန်တိုင်းကို

mone tine go — The storm (object marker)

ရင်ဆိုင်ကာ

yin hsine ga — Facing, confronting and (then)

မြက်ပင်

myat pin — Grass, blades of grass

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, several

လှိုင်းလုံး

hline lone — Waves (as in rippling or rolling waves)

ကဲ့သို့

kè thoe — Like, as if, similar to

ညွှတ်ကျ

hnwut kja — To bend down, droop, tilt over

နေသည်ကို

nè thì go — The state of being (object nominalized)

မြင်နိုင်

myin nine — Can see, able to see

ကြသည်

kja thì — Plural action marker; they do/are

တောင်ဖက်

taung phat — South, southern direction

မှ

hmah — From, since; source or origin marker

လေထု

lè htoo — Atmosphere, air mass

ထဲတွင်

htè twìn — Inside, within (locative)

ထက်မြက်

htat myat — Sharp, keen, piercing (of sound or wind)

လေသံ

lè than — Sound of the wind

တစ်သံ

tit than — A sound, one sound

ဆင်းလာ

hsin la — To come down, descend toward

ဘက်သို့

bèt thoe — Toward, in the direction of

မျက်လုံး

myat lone — Eye

လှည့်

hlè — To turn, rotate, face toward

ပြီးသော

pyi thaw — After finishing; completed action relative clause

အခါ

a kha — When, at the time of

ဘက်မှ

bèt hmah — From the direction of, from that side

လှိုင်း

hline — Wave, surge (water or grass)

ညွတ်ညိမ်း

hnwut nime — Swaying, bending rhythmically

မြင်လိုက်

myin lite — Caught sight of, suddenly saw

ကြရသည်

kja ya thì — They experienced/had to (plural experiential)

ရုတ်တရက်

yout ta yat — Suddenly, all at once, abruptly

ထကြွ

hta kjwa — To rise up suddenly, leap up

လိုက်သည်

lite thì — Did (completive/following action particle)

ဆိုင်ကလုန်း

hsine ga lone — Cyclone, tropical storm

မုန်တိုင်း

mone tine — Storm, tempest, violent weather

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

နေပြီ

nè pyi — Is already happening now

ဟု

hù — Quotation marker; said that, saying

ဇနီးကို

za ni go — Wife (object marker)

အော်ခေါ်

aw khaw — To call out loudly, shout to someone

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first person pronoun)

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta yet hsan — Animal, creature, beast

တွေကို

twè go — Plural object marker; the (things/animals)

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb away from speaker

ကြည့်ရှု

kji shu — To look after, watch over, observe

ဦးမယ်

ù mè — Will do first; expressing intention

ထို့နောက်

htoe naut — After that, afterwards, then

နွားများ

nwa mya — Cows, cattle (plural)

မြင်းများ

myin mya — Horses (plural)

ထားသော

hta thaw — Which was kept/placed; stored relative clause

အုတ်ဆောင်

out hsaung — Brick enclosure, walled compound

ဆီသို့

hsì thoe — Toward, in the direction of

ပြေး

pyè — To run, flee quickly

သွားလေသည်

thwa lè thì — Went away (narrative past marker)

လုပ်

lout — To do, make, perform

နေသော

nè thaw — Which is doing; ongoing relative clause

အလုပ်ကို

a lout go — The work/task (object marker)

ချ

cha — To put down, set down, lower

တံခါး

dăn ga — Door, gate

လေသည်

lè thì — Narrative past/evidential sentence marker

တစ်ချက်

tit chat — Once, one time, one moment

တည်း

tì — Only, just, solely; restrictive particle

နီးကပ်စွာ

ni khat zwa — Closely, in close proximity

ကပ်ရောက်

kat yaut — To arrive close, approach near

လာသော

la thaw — Which came; approaching relative clause

အန္တရာယ်ကို

an da yay go — The danger, threat (object marker)

သူမ

thu ma — She, her (feminine third person)

သိရှိ

thi shi — To know, be aware of, realize

လိုက်ရသည်

lite ya thì — Came to know; experienced realization

မြန်မြန်

myăn myăn — Quickly, fast, hurriedly

သူမသည်

thu ma thì — She (subject marker); feminine subject

အော်ဟစ်

aw hit — To shout, scream, yell loudly

မြေအောက်ခန်း

myè aut kăn — Basement, underground room

ဆီ

hsì — Toward, in the direction of (colloquial)

၏

yay — Possessive marker; 's, of

ခုန်ဆင်းကာ

khoun hsin ga — Jumping down and (then)

အောက်

aut — Under, below, beneath

ဝှက်

hwat — To hide, conceal oneself

နေ

nè — To stay, live; ongoing action particle

လိုက်ပြီး

lite pyi — Did and then; completive sequential action

မိန်းကလေးသည်

main ga lè thì — The girl (subject marker)

ယူရန်

yu yan — In order to take, to fetch

စတင်

sa tin — To start, begin, commence