The Yellow Wallpaper — Page 5

Vocabulary

ကျွန်မတို့

kyun ma to — We (inclusive, female speaker first person plural)

ဒီမှာ

di hma — Here, at this place

နှစ်ပတ်

hnit pat — Two weeks

နေပြီ

ne pyi — Already living or staying somewhere

ထို

hto — That, those (demonstrative pronoun)

ပထမဆုံး

pa hta ma hsone — First, foremost, very first

နေ့

ne — Day, daytime

က

ka — Subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

တည်းက

teare ka — Since, from (a point in time)

ယခင်က

ya khin ka — Previously, in the past, formerly

ရေးချင်စိတ်

yay chin seit — Desire or urge to write something

မဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါ

ma phyit khe ba — Did not happen, was not possible

ကျွန်မ

kyun ma — I, me (used by female speakers)

ယခု

ya khu — Now, at present, currently

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kyout met phway kaung thaw — Frightening, terrifying, causing great fear

ကလေး

ka lay — Child, baby, young person

အိပ်ခန်း

ate khan — Bedroom, sleeping room

ထဲတွင်

hte dwin — Inside, within a place or container

အပေါ်ဆုံး

a paw hsone — Topmost, highest level or floor

တွင်

dwin — In, at, within (location particle)

ဝင်းဒိုး

win doe — Window

ဘေးတွင်

bay dwin — Beside, next to, at the side of

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, to be seated

နေပြီး

ne pyi — Living, staying, and then (continuative)

အားနည်း

ah ni — Weak, feeble, lacking strength

နေမှု

ne hmu — State of living or residing somewhere

မှ

hma — From, since (source or origin particle)

တပါး

ta ba — Apart from, other than, besides

ကြိုက်သလောက်

kyite tha lauk — As much as one likes, to one's satisfaction

ရေးခြင်း

yay jing — The act of writing

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese grammar

တားဆီး

ta zi — To prevent, stop, obstruct someone

မည့်

myi — Future tense marker, will (particle)

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object

မရှိပါ

ma shi ba — There is not, does not exist

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present tense particle

တစ်နေ့

ta ne — One day, all day

လုံး

lone — Whole, entire, all (classifier)

ထွက်

htwet — To go out, exit, leave a place

သွားပြီး

thwa pyi — Went and (sequential action particle)

သူ၏

thu e — His, her, their (possessive pronoun)

လူနာ

lu na — Patient, sick person, ill individual

ကိစ္စများ

kait sa mya — Matters, affairs, issues (plural)

အလေးနက်

a lay net — Serious, grave, of great importance

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, that which (particle)

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when (temporal marker)

အချို့သော

a choe thaw — Some, certain, a few of

ညများ

nya mya — Nights (plural)

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed (emphatic particle)

ကျွန်မ၏

kyun ma e — My, mine (female speaker possessive)

ကိစ္စ

kait sa — Matter, affair, issue, concern

မ

ma — Negation prefix, not (negative marker)

လေးနက်

lay net — Serious, weighty, profound

ဝမ်းသာ

wun tha — Happy, glad, pleased, joyful

ပါသည်

ba thi — Polite affirmative sentence ending particle

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However, but, nevertheless

ကြောင်ကြောင်

kyaung kyaung — Dazed, confused, absent-minded state

ဖြစ်မှု

phyit hmu — Occurrence, happening, state of being

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsine ya — Related to, concerning, relevant to

ပြဿနာများ

pya tha na mya — Problems, issues, difficulties (plural)

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyout met phway — Frightening, dreadful, terrifying

ကောင်းအောင်

kaung aung — So as to be good, to improve

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit dat — Spirit, morale, mental disposition

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop, decrease in level

စေ

say — Causative particle, to cause or make

တကယ်တန်း

ta kyay tan — Truly, really, in actuality

မည်မျှ

myi hmya — How much, to what extent

ဒုက္ခ

doke kha — Suffering, hardship, distress, trouble

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive, reach, get to a place

နေသည်

ne thi — Is living, is staying (present continuous)

မသိပါ

ma thi ba — Do not know, unaware of something

ရောက်ရန်

yauk yan — In order to reach or arrive

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — Reason, cause, about, concerning

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist, there is none

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle, saying that, as

သူ

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

သိပြီး

thi pyi — Knowing and then, having understood

အချက်

a chet — Point, fact, key detail

သူ့ကို

thu ko — To him, to her (object pronoun)

ကျေနပ်

kyay nat — Satisfied, content, pleased with something

ဟုတ်

hote — Yes, correct, that is right

၎င်း

tain gi — It, that (formal third person pronoun)

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely (limiting particle)

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thi — Is, exists, becomes (to be)

မည်သည့်

myi thi — Which, whatever, any (interrogative)

နည်း

ni — Method, way, how, technique

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunction)

မျှ

hmya — Only, as much as, equally (particle)

တာဝန်

ta wan — Responsibility, duty, obligation

ထမ်းဆောင်

htan hsaung — To carry out a duty, fulfill responsibility

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to, capable of doing

အလွန်

a lwan — Very, extremely, excessively

ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုး

wan htote wan poe — Burden, heavy load, encumbrance

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to happen

အတွက်

a twet — For, for the sake of, because of

အကူအညီ

a ku a nyi — Help, assistance, support from others

နားချိန်

na chain — Rest time, break time, time to relax

ကူညီမစ

ku nyi ma sa — To help and assist, give support

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix, act or state of

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One, one thing (general classifier)

ဖြစ်ရန်

phyit yan — In order to be or become something

ရည်ရွယ်

yi yway — To intend, aim, purpose, plan for

ခဲ့သည်

khe thi — Did (past tense marker)

ဤမှာ

i hma — Here, at this place (formal)

နှိုင်းယှဉ်

hnine shin — To compare, contrast with something else

ပြောရသော

pyaw ya thaw — That which must be said, speaking of

တတ်နိုင်

tat nine — To be capable of, able to manage

သမျှ

tha hmya — All, whatever, as much as possible

အနည်းငယ်

a nyi ngwe — A little, a small amount, slightly

အရာများ

a ya mya — Things, objects, matters (plural)

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loat — To do, make, perform, carry out

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

ဝတ်ဆင်

woot hsin — To wear, dress, put on clothing

ဧည့်ခံ

e khan — To host, welcome, entertain guests

အမှာပါး

a hma ba — Advice, instruction, recommendation given

ကြိုးစား

kyo za — To try, make effort, strive hard

အားထုတ်

ah htwet — To exert effort, put in energy

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; can (particle)

မည်သူ

myi thu — Who, whoever (interrogative pronoun)

ယုံကြည်

yone kyi — To believe, trust, have faith in

ကြပါ

kya ba — Imperative plural polite particle, please do

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mwan — Good, excellent, fine, well

ကံကောင်း

kan kaung — Lucky, fortunate, having good fortune

ချစ်စရာ

chit sa ya — Lovable, adorable, endearing, dear

ကောင်းသော

kaung thaw — Good, kind, virtuous (relative clause)

လေး

lay — Dear (endearment particle), four; a little

လည်း

le — Also, too, as well (additive particle)

အတူ

a tu — Together, jointly, in company with

နေနိုင်

ne nine — Able to live, manage to stay

ပါ

ba — Polite sentence-final particle

သူ့

thu — His, her (possessive short form)

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life, existence, way of living

တစ်ခါ

ta kha — Once, one time, at one point

ဖြစ်ဖူး

phyit phu — Have been, have experienced, ever been

ထင်

htin — To think, suppose, assume, believe

နံရံကပ်

nan yan kut — Wall-mounted, attached to the wall

စက္ကူ

set ku — Paper, sheet of paper

ရယ်မော

ye maw — To laugh, smile, be amused

အစ

a sa — Beginning, start, origin

အခန်း

a khan — Room, chapter, section

နံရံ

nan yan — Wall (of a room or building)

အသစ်

a thit — New, fresh, brand new

ကပ်ရန်

kut yan — To stick, paste, attach to surface

ခဲ့သော်

khe thaw — Even though it was, although (concessive)

နောက်ပိုင်း

nauk pine — Afterward, later, subsequently

ထက်

htet — Than, more than (comparative particle)

အောင်နိုင်

aung nine — To succeed, overcome, be victorious

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission, right, opportunity to do

ပေး

pay — To give, provide, offer something

ဖြစ်သော

phyit thaw — Which is, being, that which is

ထိုသို့သော

hto thoe thaw — Such, like that, of that kind

စိတ်ကူး

seit ku — Idea, imagination, thought, fancy

များ

mya — Plural marker, many, a lot

လိုက်လျော

lite lyaw — To adapt, comply, go along with

ပေးခြင်း

pay jing — The act of giving or providing

ပို

po — More, rather, even more so

ဆိုးသော

hsoe thaw — Bad, wicked, terrible (relative clause)

ပြော

pyaw — To say, speak, tell, talk