The Yellow Wallpaper — Page 1

Vocabulary

အဝါရောင်

a-wa-yaung — Yellow color

နံရံကပ်စာ

nan-yan-kap-sa — Poster or notice attached to a wall

ရေးသားသူ

yay-tha-thu — Author or writer of a text

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; used to connect words

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I or me, used by female speakers

ကဲ့သို့သော

keh-dho-dho — Such as; like; similar to something

သာမန်

tha-man — Ordinary; common; average; not special

လူများ

lu-mya — People; persons; a group of humans

သည်

dhi — Grammatical marker indicating subject or topic

နွေရာသီ

nway-ya-thi — Summer season; hot dry season

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

ဘိုးဘွား

boe-bwa — Ancestors; forefathers; grandparents

ပိုင်

pine — To own; to possess something

အဆောက်အဦ

a-hsout-a-u — Building; structure; architectural construction

ကြီး

ji — Big; large; great in size

များကို

mya-go — Plural object marker; to the many

ငှားရမ်း

hnga-yan — To rent or lease something

နိုင်ခြင်း

nine-chin — Ability; capability to do something

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly so

ရှားပါး

sha-pa — Rare; scarce; not commonly found

လှသည်။

hla-dhi — Is beautiful; is attractive in appearance

နယ်ချဲ့

neh-cheh — Colonial; relating to imperialism or expansion

ခေတ်က

khet-ka — From the era of; during the period

အိမ်ကြီး

ein-ji — Large house; mansion; big residence

တစ်လုံး

ta-lone — One whole unit; one building or house

မျိုးဆက်

myo-set — Generation; lineage; successive family generation

ဆင်းသက်

sin-thet — To descend from; to originate from ancestors

လာသော

la-dho — Coming; that which came or arrived

အိမ်ခြံမြေ

ein-chan-mye — Real estate; property including land and house

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One; a single item or thing

ဝိညာဉ်

win-yan — Spirit; ghost; soul of a person

ကိန်းသည့်

kain-dhi — Haunting; inhabiting as a spirit or ghost

အိမ်

ein — House; home; dwelling place

ဟုပင်

hhu-pin — Even saying; indeed called or described as

ဆိုချင်သည်

hso-chin-dhi — Wants to say; wishes to express something

ထိုသို့

hto-dho — In that way; like that; thus

ဆိုလျှင်

hso-hshin — If one says; if that is the case

ရောမန်တစ်

yaw-man-ti — Romantic; relating to romance or sentiment

ဆန်သော

hsan-dho — Having a characteristic of; tending toward

ကံကောင်းမှု

kan-kaung-hmu — Good luck; fortunate circumstance; good fortune

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle; belonging to

အထွတ်အထိပ်

a-hwut-a-htit — Peak; pinnacle; highest point or summit

သို့

dho — To; toward; directional particle

ရောက်ရှိ

yout-shi — To arrive at; to reach a destination

မည်

myi — Will; future tense auxiliary marker

သို့သော်

dho-dho — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

ထိုမျှ

hto-hma — That much; to that extent; so much

ကံကြမ္မာ

kan-kyam-ma — Fate; destiny; karma; one's lot in life

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; toward

တောင်းဆို

taung-hso — To demand; to request; to ask for

သို့သော်လည်း

dho-dho-leh — Nevertheless; even so; however; but still

ထိုနေရာ

hto-nay-ya — That place; that location; there

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a place or time

တစ်ခုခု

ta-khu-khu — Something; some thing or another

ထူးဆန်း

htu-hsan — Strange; unusual; peculiar; out of the ordinary

သည်ဟု

dhi-hhu — That it is; quoting that something is so

ဂုဏ်ယူ

gon-yu — To be proud; to take pride in

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ကြေငြာ

kye-nya — To announce; to declare; to proclaim publicly

ရဲသည်။

yeh-dhi — Is brave; is bold; dares to do

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Is not; negation of being or identity

ရင်

yin — If; when; conditional particle

ဘာကြောင့်

ba-kyaung — Why; for what reason; what cause

ဈေးနှုန်း

zay-hnone — Price; cost; rate of something

သက်သာ

thet-tha — Affordable; inexpensive; reasonable in price

ငှားရ

hnga-ya — To be able to rent; available for rent

တာလဲ

ta-leh — Colloquial question particle; why is it so

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — And then; after that; furthermore

ကြာကြာ

kya-kya — For a long time; prolonged duration

လူမနေ

lu-ma-nay — Uninhabited; no one living there

ဘဲ

beh — Without; not doing; negative adverbial particle

ဆိုင်းငံ့

hsite-ngan — To postpone; to delay; to put off

နေတာလဲ

nay-ta-leh — Why is it staying or remaining so

ဟားကနဲ

ha-ka-neh — Ha; sound of laughter; laughing out loud

ရယ်မော

yeh-maw — To laugh; to laugh and smile happily

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw-lin — To hope; to expect; to look forward to

ရသည်မှာ

ya-dhi-hma — What one gets; regarding receiving something

လက်ထပ်

let-htat — To marry; to wed; marriage ceremony

ထိမ်းမြားမှု

htain-mya-hmu — Marriage; matrimony; act of getting married

မထူးဆန်း

ma-htu-hsan — Not strange; not unusual; nothing peculiar

ပေ။

peh — Sentence-final particle expressing emphasis or certainty

လက်တွေ့ကျ

let-tway-kya — Practical; realistic; down to earth

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit-dhi — Is; it is; exists as something

ယုံကြည်ခြင်း

yone-kyi-chin — Belief; faith; trust in something

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thet-yway — Regarding; concerning; in relation to

သည်းမခံ

dhin-ma-khan — Unable to bear; cannot tolerate; impatient

နိုင်ဘဲ

nine-beh — Without being able to; unable to do

ယုတ်မာ

yout-ma — Wicked; vile; evil; morally corrupt

သော

dho — Relative clause marker; that which; who

ယုံမှားမှု

yone-hma-hmu — Misbelief; misconception; mistaken trust

ပြင်းထန်

pyin-htan — Intense; severe; strong; powerful

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kyout-ywan — Fear; to be afraid; to be scared

ပြီး

pyi — After; having done; completion marker

ခံစားမှု

khan-sa-hmu — Feeling; emotion; sensory experience

မြင်မှု

myin-hmu — Perception; vision; way of seeing things

ဂဏန်း

ga-nan — Number; numeral; digit

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental marker

မှတ်တမ်း

hmut-tan — Record; documentation; written account

တင်၍

tin-yway — Having submitted or recorded; presenting

မရသော

ma-ya-dho — Unobtainable; cannot be gotten or received

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; affair

ထင်ရှား

htin-sha — Prominent; obvious; well-known; conspicuous

ပြောနေ

pyaw-nay — Is speaking; is talking; in the act of saying

သူများကို

thu-mya-go — To those people; to them; plural object

ကဲ့ရဲ့

keh-yeh — To criticize; to mock; to reproach

သည်။

dhi — Sentence-final declarative marker; it is so

ဆရာဝန်

hsaya-wun — Doctor; physician; medical professional

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-dhi — Is; becomes; exists as

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-kyaung — Therefore; for that reason; thus

တစ်ချက်

ta-chet — Once; one moment; a single instance

မည်သည့်

myi-dhi — Which; whatever; whichever one

သူ့အားမှ

thu-a-hma — From him or her; from that person

ထိုအကြောင်း

hto-a-kyaung — About that matter; regarding that topic

မပြောမိ

ma-pyaw-mi — Did not mention; failed to say; unsaid

ဤ

i — This; these; demonstrative pronoun near speaker

စာရွက်

sa-ywet — Paper; sheet of paper; document

မှာ

hma — At; on; in; locative or instructional particle

အသက်မဲ့

a-thet-meh — Lifeless; inanimate; without life

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; emotion; feelings

စေသည်

say-dhi — Causes; makes; compels to do something

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative adjective

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — Reason; cause; subject matter; about

ပိုမြန်မြန်

po-myan-myan — More quickly; faster; sooner than expected

မကျန်းမာ

ma-kyan-ma — Unhealthy; unwell; ill; sick

နိုင်ရခြင်း

nine-ya-chin — Being able to; managing to achieve something

တစ်ခုသော

ta-khu-dho — A certain; one particular; a specific one

အကြောင်းပြချက်

a-kyaung-pya-chet — Reason; justification; grounds for something

ဖြစ်နိုင်

phyit-nine — Possibly; may be; could be; possible

သင်

thin — You; second person singular pronoun

မြင်နိုင်

myin-nine — Can see; able to perceive or understand

အတိုင်း

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

နာမကျန်း

na-ma-kyan — Ill; sick; unwell; in poor health

ဖြစ်သည်ဟု

phyit-dhi-hhu — Saying that it is; asserting that something is

မယုံကြည်

ma-yone-kyi — Not believing; disbelieving; lack of faith

ပေ

peh — Sentence-final emphatic or assertive particle

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yout — One person; a single person

အနေဖြင့်

a-nay-phyin — As; in the capacity of; acting as

ဘာကို

ba-go — What; what object; asking about thing

တတ်နိုင်

tat-nine — Can; be capable of; afford to do

မည်နည်း

myi-neh — What will it be; interrogative ending

အကယ်၍

a-keh-yway — If; in case; supposing that something occurs

နာမည်ကြီး

na-myi-ji — Famous; well-known; celebrated; renowned

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; one's own; reflexive pronoun

ခင်ပွန်းသည်

khin-bun-dhi — Husband; one's male spouse

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tine — Oneself; personally; by oneself

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; by

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-hsway — Friend; close acquaintance; companion

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; multiple

ဆွေမျိုး

hsway-myo — Relatives; family members; kin

ယာယီ

ya-yi — Temporary; provisional; not permanent

အာရုံကြော

a-yone-kyaw — Nerve; nerve system; neurological

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsite-ya — Related to; concerning; pertaining to

စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျ

seit-dat-kya — Depressed; low-spirited; demoralized

မှုသာ

hmu-tha — Only the matter of; merely; just that

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Having become; being and then; since it is

အနည်းငယ်

a-ney-ngeh — A little; a small amount; slightly

ဟစ်စတေးရီး

hit-sa-tay-yi — Hysteria; extreme emotional or nervous excitement

သဘောကို

tha-baw-go — The meaning; the intent; the concept of

ပြဿနာမှ

pya-hta-na-hma — From the problem; away from trouble

မရှိဟု

ma-shi-hhu — Saying there is none; claiming nonexistence

အာမခံ

a-ma-khan — To guarantee; to assure; warranty

ပါက

pa-ka — If; provided that; conditional particle

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun for things

ပြုနိုင်

pyu-nine — Can do; able to perform or act

အစ်ကို

a-ko — Older brother; respectful term for senior male

သည်လည်း

dhi-leh — Also; as well; in addition to that

လည်း

leh — Also; too; as well; additive particle

ဖြစ်ကာ

phyit-ka — Being; having become; while being something

အတူတူပင်

a-tu-tu-pin — Exactly the same; just the same; identical

ပြောဆို

pyaw-hso — To speak; to say; to talk about something