The Yellow Wallpaper — Page 8

Vocabulary

အသက်မဲ့သော

a-thek-meh-dho — lifeless, without life or vitality

အရာ

a-ya — thing, object, or matter

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — one thing, a single item

တွင်

twìn — in, at, within a place or context

ဤမျှ

i-hma — this much, to this extent

လောက်

lout — enough, approximately, about that amount

အသွင်အပြင်

a-twhìn-a-pyìn — appearance, outward look or form

ထွက်ဟပ်မှု

thwet-hut-hmu — reflection, the act of reflecting light

ကို

ko — accusative particle marking direct object

ငါ

nga — I, informal first-person pronoun

ဘယ်တော့မှ

beh-daw-hma — never, not at any time

မတွေ့ဖူးဘူး

ma-twe-phu-bu — have never seen or encountered before

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — and then, after that, furthermore

သူတို့

thu-doh — they, third-person plural pronoun

မည်မျှ

myi-hma — how much, how many, to what extent

ရှိသည်

shi-dhi — there is, exists, to have

ငါတို့

nga-doh — we, informal first-person plural pronoun

အားလုံး

a-loun — all, everyone, everything entirely

သိကြ

thi-kja — know collectively, plural form of know

သည်

dhi — present tense verb marker, topic particle

ကလေး

ka-lé — child, young person, little one

ဘဝ

ba-wa — life, existence, one's living experience

က

ka — subject marker particle in a sentence

အိပ်မပျော်ဘဲ

ate-ma-pyaw-beh — without sleeping, unable to fall asleep

လဲလျောင်း

leh-lyoun — to lie down, recline on a surface

နေရင်း

nè-yìn — while staying, in the process of being

ကစားစရာ

ka-zá-za-ya — toy, plaything, something to play with

ဆိုင်

sain — shop, store, or establishment selling goods

တစ်ဆိုင်

tit-sain — one shop, a single store

အများစု

a-myá-zu — majority, most of something

တွေ့နိုင်

twe-naing — can find, able to encounter or discover

ထက်

thut — than, comparative particle for comparison

ပို

po — more, to a greater degree

မိုသော

mo-dho — dull, dim, gloomy in appearance

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw-shwin-hmu — happiness, joy, the state of being happy

နှင့်

hnin — and, with, together with another thing

ထိတ်လန့်မှု

thate-lan-hmu — fright, shock, startled feeling

ဗလာ

ba-la — blank, empty, void of content

နံရံ

nan-yan — wall, a vertical dividing or surrounding surface

များ

myá — plural marker, many, a lot of

ရိုးရှင်းသော

yo-shín-dho — simple, plain, uncomplicated in nature

ပရိဘောဂ

pa-ri-baw-ga — furniture, household furnishings and fittings

မှ

hma — from, since, ablative case particle

ရရှိ

ya-shi — to obtain, receive, or acquire something

လေ့ရှိ

leh-shi — tend to, habitually do, usually have

ခဲ့သည်

kheh-dhi — past tense marker, did, has done

၏

ei — possessive or genitive particle, of, belonging to

ကြီးမားသော

kjí-má-dho — large, great, significant in size or importance

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

houn-nwun — worn out, old and deteriorated in condition

သည့်

dhi — relative clause marker, that, which, who

စာရေး

sa-yé — writing desk, to write, writing activity

ဘီရို

bi-yo — bureau, writing desk with drawers

ကြီး

kjí — big, large, great in size

လုံးဝိုင်းသော

loun-wain-dho — round, circular in shape

လက်ကိုင်

let-kain — handle, handrail, something held by hand

ကြင်နာသော

kjin-na-dho — caring, affectionate, showing kindness and warmth

မျက်ခြည်ဖြတ်မှု

myet-chi-phyat-hmu — glance, a quick passing look

မှတ်မိ

hmat-mi — to remember, recall, recognize something

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myeh-tan — always, constantly, at all times

ခိုင်မာသော

khain-ma-dho — sturdy, firm, strong and durable

မိတ်ဆွေ

mite-swé — friend, close companion, acquaintance

တစ်ယောက်

tit-yout — one person, a single individual

ကဲ့သို့

keh-dho — like, as if, similar to something

ထင်ရသော

htin-ya-dho — seemingly, appearing to be, seemingly like

ကုလားထိုင်

ka-lá-htain — chair, a seat with a back support

တစ်လုံး

tit-loun — one piece, one whole unit or item

လည်း

leh — also, too, as well, additionally

ရှိခဲ့

shi-kheh — was, existed, had been present before

အခြားသော

a-khá-dho — other, another, different from this one

ထဲ

theh — inside, within, into a space

တစ်ခုခု

tit-khu-khu — something, some unspecified thing

အလွန်

a-lwun — very, extremely, excessively so

ကြမ်းတမ်းစွာ

kjàn-tan-zwa — roughly, harshly, in a coarse manner

ကြည့်

kjì — to look, watch, observe something

နေ

nè — to stay, live, continuous action marker

ပါက

pa-ka — if, in the event that, conditional particle

ထို

hto — that, those, referring to something distant

သို့

thoh — to, toward, in the direction of

ခုန်ဝင်

khun-win — to jump into, leap inside something

ကာ

ka — while doing, gerundive continuative particle

ဘေးကင်း

beh-kin — safe, free from danger or harm

နိုင်မည်

naing-myi — will be able to, future possibility marker

ဟု

hu — quotation particle, saying that, as stated

ခံစား

khan-zá — to feel, experience, sense an emotion

သို့သော်လည်း

thoh-daw-leh — however, nevertheless, but still

ဤ

i — this, referring to something near or present

အခန်း

a-khàn — room, a partitioned space in a building

ရှိ

shi — to exist, be present, have

ကိုက်ညီမှု

kite-nyi-hmu — compatibility, matching, fitting together well

မရှိ

ma-shi — does not exist, there is none

ဆိုး

so — bad, wicked, negative in quality

မဟုတ်ပါ

ma-hote-pa — is not, polite negation particle

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kjoun-hma — the reason is, the matter is about

၎င်းတို့

di-doh — they, those, formal third-person plural pronoun

အောက်ထပ်

out-htat — lower floor, downstairs, ground level

ယူဆောင်

yu-soun — to bring, carry, take something along

လာ

la — to come, move toward the speaker

ရသော

ya-dho — which is obtained, that which can be gotten

ကြောင့်

kjoun — because of, due to, on account of

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — is, to be, to become something

နေရာ

nè-ya — place, location, spot, position

ကစားခန်း

ka-zá-khàn — playroom, a room designated for playing

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — as, in the role of, being

အသုံးပြု

a-thoun-pyu — to use, make use of, utilize

သော

dho — relative clause particle, that, which

အခါ

a-kha — when, at the time of, occasion

မူကြို

mu-kjo — kindergarten, preschool for young children

ပစ္စည်း

pyit-si — item, material, belongings, supplies

ထုတ်ယူ

thote-yu — to take out, extract, remove from inside

ရမည်

ya-myi — must get, will receive, future obligation

ထင်

htin — to think, suppose, seem, appear

အံ့သြစရာ

an-tho-za-ya — amazing, wonderful, worthy of astonishment

ဖျက်ဆီး

phyet-si — to destroy, ruin, demolish something

ထား

htá — to put, place, keep, leave behind

သကဲ့သို့သော

tha-keh-thoh-dho — as if, just like, resembling that manner

ဖျက်ဆီးမှု

phyet-si-hmu — destruction, the act of ruining something

မမြင်ဖူး

ma-myin-phu — have never seen, never witnessed before

ပါ

pa — polite sentence particle, also, please

ကပ်

kat — to stick, attach, be close against

စက္ကူ

set-ku — paper, sheet of writing or printing material

အရင်

a-yin — before, previously, earlier in time

ပြော

pyaw — to say, speak, tell, talk

ခဲ့သည့်

kheh-dhi — past relative clause marker, that was done

အတိုင်း

a-tain — according to, as, in the same way

အနှံ့

a-hnan — throughout, all over, spread everywhere

ဆုတ်ဖြုတ်

sote-phyote — to peel off, strip away, detach

ခြင်း

chin — nominalizer suffix, the act of doing

ခံရ

khan-ya — to receive, suffer, undergo something done to one

ပြီး

pyi — after, finished, completion particle

ညီအစ်ကို

nyi-a-ko — brother, male sibling

ထက်ပင်

thut-pin — even more than, surpassing by emphasis

မကွာဘဲ

ma-kwa-beh — without leaving, inseparably close by

နေသည်

nè-dhi — is staying, is in a continuous state

မုန်းတီးမှု

moun-ti-hmu — hatred, strong dislike, feeling of hate

အတူ

a-tu — together, alongside, in company with

စိတ်ဇွဲ

sate-zweh — determination, willpower, mental strength

မပျက်မှု

ma-pyet-hmu — persistence, not breaking down or failing

ထို့နောက်

hto-nout — after that, subsequently, then afterward

ကြမ်းပြင်

kjàn-pyin — floor, the flat surface of a room

ခြစ်ရာ

chit-ya — scratch mark, a scraping trace left behind

တူးဖောက်ရာ

tu-phout-ya — gouge mark, a dug or bored hole

ကွဲအက်ရာ

kweh-at-ya — crack, split mark on a surface

ဖြင့်

phyin — with, by means of, using, instrumental particle

ပြည့်နှက်

pyi-hnet — to be soaked, saturated, filled completely

သဲနုန်း

theh-noun — dust, fine particles of dirt or sand

နံရံလိပ်

nan-yan-lait — wallpaper, decorative paper covering walls

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tain — oneself, personally, by one's own self

တူးဖောက်

tu-phout — to dig, bore, tunnel through something

ကြီးမား

kjí-má — great, massive, very large in scale

လေးလံသော

leh-lan-dho — heavy, weighty, burdensome in weight

ကုတင်

ku-tin — bed, a piece of furniture for sleeping

တွေ့ရသည့်

twe-ya-dhi — that which is found, encountered, discovered

တစ်ခုတည်းသော

tit-khu-teh-dho — the only one, sole, singular item

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — having become, being, and therefore being so

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-pweh — war, battle, armed conflict

ဖြတ်ကျော်

phyat-kjaw — to pass through, overcome, cross over

ပုံ

poun — picture, image, shape, form

ပေါ်သည်

paw-dhi — appears, emerges, comes to surface

သို့သော်

thoh-daw — however, but, nevertheless in contrast

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi-ngeh — a little, a small amount, slightly

မျှပင်

hma-bin — even, just, only that much at all

ဂရု

ga-yu — care, attention, heed, mindfulness

မစိုက်ပါ

ma-sote-pa — do not care, pay no attention to

သာ

tha — only, just, merely, exclusive particle

ဂရုစိုက်

ga-yu-sote — to care for, pay attention to, mind

ညီမ

nyi-ma — younger sister, a female younger sibling

ရောက်လာ

yout-la — to arrive, come to a place, reach

ပြီ

pyi — already, completion marker, that is done

သူမ

thu-ma — she, her, third-person feminine pronoun

ချစ်စဖွယ်သော

chit-za-bweh-dho — lovable, adorable, endearing and sweet

မိန်းကလေး

mein-ka-lé — girl, young female child

ငါ့

nga — my, mine, possessive form of I

ဂရုတစိုက်

ga-yu-ta-sote — carefully, attentively, with great care

ကြည့်ရှု

kjì-shu — to observe, watch over, look after

ပြုစု

pyu-zu — to care for, nurture, look after someone