Ulysses — Page 6

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic/subject marker particle in Burmese grammar.

သူ၏

thu yì — His; possessive pronoun referring to a male.

လက်ဖြင့်

lɛʔ pyin — Using the hand; by means of the hand.

ထိုးနှက်လိုက်သည်။

htoe hnɛʔ laiʔ thì — Struck or poked suddenly with force.

ဒါဟာ

da ha — This is; demonstrative pronoun with emphasis.

ဟာသတစ်ခုပဲ

ha tha tit khu bɛ — It is just a joke; merely humorous.

သူသည်

thu thì — He (is); subject pronoun with topic marker.

နှစ်သက်တင်ပြေစွာ

hnit thɛʔ tin pyay swa — In a pleasant and agreeable manner.

ပြောလိုက်သည်။

pyaw laiʔ thì — Said; spoke; uttered something (completed action).

ဒုတိယဝတ်ကြောင်း

duti ya wuʔ kyaung — Second stanza or second verse of text.

ဖြစ်သင့်တယ်။

pyiʔ thiN dɛ — Should be; ought to be; appropriate.

မည်သည့်

mɛ thìʔ — Which; whichever; any (interrogative/relative adjective).

ညံ့ဖျင်းသောလူမိုက်က

nyaN pyiN thaw lu maiʔ ka — The foolish incompetent person who (subject).

ထားခဲ့သည်ကို

hta gɛ thì go — Left behind; placed and departed (object marker).

ဘုရားသာ

pha ya tha — Only God; God alone (emphatic reference).

သိတော်မူ၏။

thi daw mu i — Knows (honorific); only God knows this.

ကျွန်တော့်မှာ

kyun daw hma — I have; at my place (first person).

လှပတဲ့

hla pa dɛ — Beautiful; pretty; attractive in appearance.

မီးခိုးရောင်

mi kho yaung — Smoke-grey color; grey hue like smoke.

ဘောင်းဘီတစ်ထည်

baung bi tit htɛ — A pair of trousers; one trouser garment.

ရှိတယ်။

shi dɛ — There is/are; to exist; to have.

မင်း

min — You; informal second-person pronoun (familiar).

ဝတ်ရင်

wuʔ yin — If (you) wear; conditional wearing clause.

အရမ်း

a yan — Very; extremely; excessively (intensifier adverb).

လှမှာပဲ။

hla hma bɛ — Will certainly look beautiful; definitely attractive.

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; formal first-person male pronoun.

နောက်မနေဘူး

nauʔ ma nay bu — Won't delay; not joking; being serious now.

ဝတ်စားဆင်ယင်တဲ့အခါ

wuʔ sa sin yin dɛ a kha — When dressed up; at the time of dressing.

အလွန်

a lwun — Very; extremely; exceedingly (intensifier adverb).

ကောင်းမွန်စွာ

kaung mun swa — Well; excellently; in a good manner.

ထင်ရှားတယ်။

htin sha dɛ — Is prominent; stands out; appears clearly visible.

ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

kyay zu tin dɛ — Thank you; I am grateful; expressing thanks.

က

ka — Subject marker particle; agent marker in grammar.

ပြောသည်။

pyaw thì — Says; said; speaks (neutral speech verb).

ဆိုရင်

so yin — If; conditional particle meaning 'if that is so.'

မဝတ်နိုင်ဘူး။

ma wuʔ naiʔ bu — Cannot wear; unable to put on clothing.

သူ

thu — He/she; third-person singular pronoun.

မဝတ်နိုင်ဘူး

ma wuʔ naiʔ bu — Cannot wear; is unable to wear it.

မှန်ထဲက

hmɛN htɛ ka — From inside the mirror; out of the mirror.

မိမိမျက်နှာကို

mi mi mjɛʔ hna go — One's own face (object); self-reflection reference.

ဥပဓိရုပ်

u pa di youʔ — Physical form; bodily appearance; corporeal image.

ဆိုတာ

so ta — What is called; referred to as (nominalizer).

ဥပဓိရုပ်ပဲ။

u pa di youʔ bɛ — It is merely physical form; just bodily appearance.

မိမိမိခင်ကို

mi mi mi khin go — One's own mother (object); referring to own mother.

သတ်သော်လည်း

thaʔ thaw lɛ — Even though (one) killed; despite having killed.

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung bi — Trousers; pants; lower body garment worn daily.

မဝတ်နိုင်ပေ။

ma wuʔ naiʔ pɛ — Still cannot wear; utterly unable to wear.

ရိတ်ကိရိယာကို

yiʔ ka ri ya go — The shaving instrument/razor (object marker applied).

သေသေချာချာ

thay thay cha cha — Carefully; thoroughly; with great attention and care.

လက်ချောင်းများဖြင့်

lɛʔ chaung mya pyin — Using the fingers; by means of one's fingers.

သာယာသောအရေပြားကို

tha ya thaw a yay pya go — The pleasant smooth skin (as object reference).

နှိပ်နယ်ကာ

hnɛiʔ nɛ ka — Pressing and massaging; while rubbing gently.

ခံစားလိုက်သည်။

khaN sa laiʔ thì — Felt; experienced; perceived a sensation fully.

ပင်လယ်ထဲမှ

pin lɛ htɛ hma — From within the sea; away from the sea.

မျက်လုံးများကို

mjɛʔ lone mya go — The eyes (plural object); directing gaze away.

လွဲဖယ်ကာ

lwɛ phɛ ka — Turning away; averting; shifting aside while doing.

မီးခိုးပြာရောင်

mi kho pya yaung — Ash-grey color; pale bluish-grey smoky shade.

လှုပ်ရှားနေသော

hlauʔ sha nay thaw — Moving; stirring; actively in motion (modifier).

မျက်လုံးများပါသည့်

mjɛʔ lone mya pa thìʔ — Which has eyes; face that possesses eyes.

ဖောင်းပွသောမျက်နှာ

phaung pwa thaw mjɛʔ hna — A plump or fat rounded face (descriptor).

ဆီသို့

si tho — Toward; in the direction of; facing towards.

လှည့်ကြည့်လိုက်သည်။

hlɛʔ kji laiʔ thì — Turned and looked; glanced over toward someone.

မနေ့ညက

ma nay nya ga — Last night; the previous night (time expression).

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle indicating place/location.

ကျွန်တော်နဲ့အတူ

kyun daw nɛ a tu — Together with me; alongside me (accompaniment phrase).

ရှိခဲ့တဲ့

shi gɛ dɛ — Who was present; that existed/was there before.

ထိုလူက

hto lu ka — That person (subject); that particular individual mentioned.

မင်းမှာ

min hma — You have; at your place (possessive locative).

ရှိတယ်လို့

shi dɛ lo — Said that (there) is; reported to have/exist.

ပြောတယ်

pyaw dɛ — Says; told; speaks (informal present tense).

နှင့်အတူ

hnin a tu — Together with; along with (accompaniment conjunction).

ရှိနေသည်။

shi nay thì — Is present; currently exists; remains in place.

သောက်ဝင်မူးသွပ်ခြင်း၏

thauʔ win mu thwuʔ chín i — Of intoxication; pertaining to being drunk/inebriated.

အထွေထွေ

a thwɛ thwɛ — General; miscellaneous; various (adjective modifier).

ပင်လယ်ပေါ်တွင်

pin lɛ paw twin — On the sea; upon the ocean surface.

ယခု

ya khu — Now; at this moment; currently (time adverb).

တောက်ပနေသော

tauʔ pa nay thaw — Shining; gleaming; currently glittering (modifier phrase).

နေရောင်ခြည်ထဲ

nay yaung chì htɛ — Inside the sunlight; within the sun's rays.

သတင်းများကို

tha din mya go — The news; information items (plural object marker).

ဖြန့်ကြဲရန်

phyaN kyɛ yan — In order to spread; to scatter or disseminate.

မှန်ကို

hmɛN go — The mirror (object); referring to a looking glass.

လေထဲတွင်

lɛ htɛ twin — In the air; within the air (locative phrase).

တစ်ဝက်

tit wɛʔ — Halfway; half; partially (quantity/degree expression).

ပတ်လည်

paʔ lɛ — Around; in a circle; rotating all the way.

လှည့်ခါသည်။

hlɛʔ kha thì — Turned; rotated; swung around (completed action).

ရိတ်ထားသော

yiʔ hta thaw — That has been shaved; shaved (past modifier).

ရယ်မောသည်

yɛ maw thì — Laughs; smiles broadly; is laughing (present tense).

ဖြူဖွေးတောက်ပသောသွားများ၏

phyu phwɛ tauʔ pa thaw thwa mya i — Of the bright white gleaming teeth (possessive).

ရယ်မောသည်။

yɛ maw thì — Laughs; is laughing (sentence-final completed statement).

အရမ်းပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန်

a yan pyin pyin htaN htaN — Very intensely; extremely vigorously; with great force.

ခိုင်မာသန်မာသော

khaiN ma thaN ma thaw — Strong and sturdy; firm and robust in build.

ကိုယ်ထည်

ko htì — Body; physical frame; bodily constitution or build.

တစ်ခုလုံးကို

tit khu lone go — The entire whole; all of it (object marker).

လွှမ်းမိုးသွားသည်။

hlwaN moe thwa thì — Dominated; overwhelmed; took over completely (completed).

မင်းကိုယ်တိုင်

min ko taiN — You yourself; your very own self (emphatic).

ကြည့်ပါ

kji ba — Look; please look (imperative with polite particle).

သူက

thu ka — He (subject); third-person subject with marker particle.

ပြောသည်

pyaw thì — Says; said; speaks (neutral declarative speech verb).

မင်းဟာ

min ha — You are; you (emphatic topic marker construction).

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kyauʔ mɛʔ phwɛ kaung thaw — Dreadful; awe-inspiring; terrifyingly impressive (modifier).

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka bya sa ya — Poet; a person who writes poetry professionally.

တစ်ယောက်ပဲ

tit yauʔ bɛ — Just one person; only a single individual.

ရှေ့သို့

shɛ tho — Forward; toward the front; in front direction.

ကုပ်ညွတ်ကာ

kuʔ nyuʔ ka — Bending forward; stooping while doing something else.

သူ့ထံ

thu htan — Toward him; in his direction (dative particle).

ဆန့်ကမ်းထားသော

saN kaN hta thaw — Held out; extended forward; outstretched toward someone.

ကျစ်ကျစ်လစ်လစ်

kyiʔ kyiʔ liʔ liʔ — Closely and neatly; tightly and compactly arranged.

ကွဲနေသော

kwɛ nay thaw — That is cracked; split open; currently broken apart.

စူးစိုက်

su saiʔ — To gaze intently; to focus eyes sharply on.

ကြည့်ရှုလိုက်သည်။

kji shu laiʔ thì — Looked at; observed; viewed carefully (completed action).

ဆံပင်များ

saN bin mya — Hairs; strands of hair (plural noun reference).

ထောင်မတ်

htaung maʔ — Standing erect; bristling upright; stiff and straight.

နေသည်။

nay thì — Is; remains; continues to be (state verb).

သူနှင့်

thu hnin — With him; together with that person (conjunction).

အခြားသူများ

a kha thu mya — Other people; others; different individuals (plural noun).

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kyun daw go — Me (object); referring to oneself as recipient/object.

မြင်သကဲ့သို့ပင်။

myin tha gɛ tho pin — Just as they see; exactly as (they) perceive.

ဤမျက်နှာကို

i mjɛʔ hna go — This face (object); referring to this particular face.

ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်

kyun daw a twɛʔ — For me; on my behalf; for my sake.

မည်သူ

mɛ thu — Who; which person (interrogative pronoun subject).

ရွေးချယ်ခဲ့သနည်း

ywɛ chɛ gɛ tha nɛ — Who chose this? (interrogative past tense question).

ပိုးမွှားများကို

po mhwa mya go — The insects/parasites (plural object); bugs to remove.

ဖယ်ရှားရန်

phɛ sha yan — In order to remove; to get rid of something.

ဤကျွန်ခံ

i kyun khaN — This enslaved; this servile (adjective describing condition).

ကိုယ်ထည်။

ko htì — Body; physical form; the bodily self (noun).

ထိုမှန်ကလည်း

hto hmɛN ka lɛ — That mirror also; the looking glass too (conjunction).

မေးနေသည်။

mɛ nay thì — Is asking; continues to question; keeps inquiring.