Ulysses — Page 8

Vocabulary

သင်

thin — You (second person pronoun, formal)

ငါ့ကို

nga hko — To me; me (object form with possessive)

ဘာကြောင့်

ba kyaung — Why; for what reason

ငါ့အပေါ်

nga a-paw — Towards me; regarding me

ကြောင့်လား?

kyaung la? — Is it because of; questioning a reason

သူ

thu — He; she; third person pronoun

ဒီမှာ

di hma — Here; at this place

ဆူဆူညံညံ

su-su nyam-nyam — Loudly and noisily; making a commotion

လုပ်မယ်ဆိုရင်

loke myeh so yin — If (someone) is going to do something

ငါ

nga — I; me (first person informal pronoun)

ကို

ko — To; object marker particle in Burmese

ခေါ်လာပြီး

khaw la pyi — Having called and brought someone here

သူတို့

thu-do — They; them (third person plural)

ဆိုးတဲ့

so deh — Bad; wicked; harmful (adjective modifier)

ဒုက္ခကို

doukka ko — Suffering; hardship; trouble (object form)

သူ့ကို

thu hko — To him/her; him or her (object form)

ပေးမယ်။

pay myeh — Will give; intending to give something

၏

e — Possessive particle; of (formal/literary)

အခန်းများတွင်

a-khan mya dwin — In the rooms; within multiple rooms

ငွေကြေးတတ်နိုင်သောသူများ

ngway-kye tat naing thaw thu mya — Those who are financially able; wealthy people

လူငယ်ဆန်သည့်

lu-ngeh san thi — Youthful; resembling or acting young

အော်သံများ

aw than mya — Shouts; loud exclamatory sounds, plural

ကြားရ

kya ya — To hear; to be heard

တစ်ယောက်နှင့်

tit yout hnin — With one person; together with someone

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; each other (one individual)

ဖက်ကိုင်ရင်း

phet kine yin — While embracing; holding each other closely

ရယ်မောကာ

yeh maw ka — While laughing; laughing and smiling together

နံရိုးများကို

nan-yo mya ko — Ribs; the rib bones (object form, plural)

ဆုပ်ကိုင်နေကြ

soke kine ne kya — Are gripping; holding tightly together

အိုး

o — Oh!; exclamation expressing surprise or realization

သေသွားတော့မည်

the thwa taw meh — Will die; is about to die soon

သူမကို

thu-ma ko — To her; her (object form, female)

သတင်းကို

tha-din ko — The news; information (object marker form)

နူးညံ့စွာ

nu-nyah zwa — Gently; softly; in a tender manner

ပြောပြပါ

pyaw pya ba — Please tell; please explain to someone

သေတော့မည်

the taw meh — About to die; will die imminently

သူ့ရှပ်အင်္ကျီ

thu shet in-ji — His shirt; his upper garment

ဖြတ်ထားသော

phyat hta thaw — Cut; having been cut (past participle modifier)

ကြိုးများ

kyo mya — Strings; ropes; cords (plural)

လေထဲတွင်

lay hteh dwin — In the air; within the air

ဝှေ့ယမ်းနေရင်း

hwe yam ne yin — While swaying; waving or fluttering in air

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung-bi — Trousers; pants; lower body garment

ကျနေသည်နှင့်

kya ne thi hnin — As (something) falls down; while falling

စားပွဲပတ်လည်

sa-bweh pat-leh — Around the table; circling the dining table

ခုန်ပျံ

khone pyan — To jump; to leap through the air

ခြေဆွဲ

cheh sweh — To drag feet; tripping or shuffling steps

သွားနေ

thwa ne — Going; in the process of going

မှ

hma — From; at; ablative or locative particle

က

ka — Subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

အချုပ်သူ

a-choke thu — Prisoner; a person under detention

လိုက်လံ

lite lan — To follow around; to accompany or pursue

မောင်းနှင်နေ

maung hnin ne — Driving; operating a vehicle in motion

ထိတ်လန့်နေသည့်

hteit lan ne thi — Being frightened; currently in a startled state

နွားသငယ်

nwa tha-ngeh — Young calf; a small baby cow

မျက်နှာ

myat-hna — Face; facial features of a person

ငါ့ဘောင်းဘီ

nga baung-bi — My trousers; my pants (possessive form)

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hote bu — Is not; it is not (negation)

ငါ့နဲ့

nga neh — With me; together with me

မိုက်မဲသလို

mike meh tha lo — Like a fool; acting stupidly or foolishly

ပြုမူမနေနဲ့

pyu mu ma ne neh — Don't behave; stop acting in that way

ညနေခင်းကို

nya-ne-khin ko — The evening; late afternoon time (object form)

ထိတ်လန့်တုန်လှုပ်စေသည့်

hteit lan tone hloke se thi — Causing fright and trembling; terrifying someone

ဖွင့်ထားသောပြတင်းပေါက်မှ

hpwin hta thaw pya-tin pauk hma — From the open window; through an opened window

မျက်နှာဖုံးတပ်ကာ

myat-hna hpone tat ka — Wearing a mask; having put on a mask

မြက်ညှပ်စက်ကို

myet hnyet set ko — The lawn mower; grass-cutting machine (object form)

တွန်းလှည်းကာ

twon hleh ka — While pushing a cart; pushing along something

မြက်ညှင်းများ

myet hnyin mya — Grass clippings; cut pieces of grass

သေချာစွာ

the-cha zwa — Carefully; with certainty and attention

ကြည့်ရှုနေ

kyi shu ne — Is watching; observing attentively at something

ကိုယ့်အတွက်ကိုယ်

ko a-twet ko — For oneself; by and for one's own benefit

နေပါစေ

ne ba se — Let it be; may it remain as is

ပြောခဲ့သည်

pyaw khe thi — Said; spoke (past tense verb form)

ညဘက်မှတစ်ပါး

nya bet hma tit pa — Except at night; other than nighttime

သူ့မှာ

thu hma — He has; at his place (locative form)

ဘာမှ

ba hma — Nothing at all; anything (with negation)

မမှားမယွင်းဘူး

ma hma ma ywin bu — Makes no mistakes; is never wrong at all

ဒါဆိုရင်

da so yin — In that case; if that is so

ဘာလဲ

ba leh — What is it; what exactly (question form)

သည်

thi — Sentence-final particle; present tense marker

စိတ်မရှည်စွာ

seit ma-shi zwa — Impatiently; without patience or calmness

မေးလိုက်သည်

meh lite thi — Asked; posed a question (past tense)

တင်းတင်းထုတ်ပြောပါ

tin-tin thote pyaw ba — Speak firmly and directly; say it outright

သင့်နဲ့

thin neh — With you; together with you (formal)

ရိုးသားစွာ

yo-tha zwa — Honestly; sincerely; in a truthful manner

ပြောနေတယ်

pyaw ne deh — Am speaking; currently talking to someone

အခု

a-khu — Now; at this moment; currently

ဘာကန့်ကွက်ချက်

ba kan-kwet chet — What objection; what kind of complaint or protest

ရှိနေတာလဲ

shi ne ta leh — What is there; what exists (questioning presence)

ရပ်တန့်ကာ

yet tan ka — While stopping; having come to a halt

အိပ်ပျော်နေသော

ate pyaw ne thaw — Sleeping; being in a sleeping state

ဝေလငါးတစ်ကောင်

weh-la nga tit kaung — A whale; one large sea mammal

နှာသီးကဲ့သို့

hna-thi keh tho — Like a nose; resembling a protruding nose shape

ရေပေါ်တွင်

yeh paw dwin — On the water; floating on the surface

လဲလျောင်းနေသော

leh lyaung ne thaw — Lying down; reclining on a surface

ထိပ်ဖျားတုံးတုံး

hteit phya tone-tone — Blunt-tipped; flat or blunt at the top

မျှော်ကြည့်နေကြ

myaw kyi ne kya — Are gazing; looking into the distance together

လက်မောင်းကို

let-maung ko — The arm; forearm (object marker form)

တိတ်ဆိတ်စွာ

teit-seit zwa — Silently; quietly; in a calm silent manner

လွတ်မြောက်အောင်

lwat myauk aung — So as to escape; in order to be free

လုပ်သည်

loke thi — Does; performs an action (present tense)

မေးသည်

meh thi — Asks; poses a question (present tense)

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hote keh — Yes; polite affirmative response in Burmese

ဖြေသည်

phyeh thi — Answers; responds to a question

မမှတ်မိဘူး

ma hmat mi bu — Cannot remember; does not recall something