Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 1

Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; used to connect nouns

တာဝန်

ta'wan — Responsibility; duty; obligation assigned to someone

အကြောင်း

a kjoun — About; reason; cause; topic of discussion

ရေးသားသည်

yay tha' the' — Writes; composes; authors a written work

မာတိကာ

ma ti ka — Table of contents; index listing chapters or sections

စီးပွားရေး

si bwa yay — Economy; business; economic activity and commerce

ကျွန်တော်

kjana daw — I; me; formal first-person pronoun used by males

နေထိုင်ခဲ့သောနေရာ

nay htain khe thaw nay ya — The place where one previously lived or resided

ဘာကြောင့်

bha kjoun — Why; for what reason; asking cause or motive

နေထိုင်ခဲ့သည်

nay htain khe the' — Lived; resided; stayed somewhere in the past

စာဖတ်ခြင်း

sa phat chin — Reading; the act of reading books or texts

အသံများ

a than mya — Sounds; noises; audio phenomena heard in environment

တစ်ကိုယ်တည်း

ti ko' tan — Alone; by oneself; in solitude without others

နေထိုင်ခြင်း

nay htain chin — Living; residing; the act of dwelling somewhere

လာရောက်

la yau' — To come; to visit; to arrive at a place

လည်ပတ်သူများ

le ba' thu mya — Visitors; tourists; people who come to visit

ရွာ

ywa — Village; small rural settlement; rural community

အိုင်များ

ain mya — Ponds; lakes; bodies of still water

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myin mya' thaw — Noble; lofty; morally elevated or dignified

ဥပဒေများ

u pa day mya — Laws; legal rules and regulations of society

ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သော

ye' se' kjan kjou' thaw — Cruel; brutal; harsh and mercilessly violent

အိမ်နီးချင်းများ

ain ni chin mya — Neighbors; people living nearby or adjacent

အိမ်သစ်ပွဲ

ain thi' bwe — Housewarming; celebration for moving into a new home

ယခင်

ya khin — Previous; former; earlier time or period

နေထိုင်သူများ

nay htain thu mya — Residents; inhabitants; people who live in a place

ဆောင်းရာသီ

saun ya thi — Winter season; the cold season of the year

တိရစ္ဆာန်များ

ti yi' san mya — Animals; creatures of the animal kingdom

၌

hnai' — In; at; locative particle indicating place or time

အိုင်

ain — Pond; lake; small body of still water

နွေဦးရာသီ

nway u ya thi — Spring season; the warm season following winter

နိဂုံးချုပ်

ni goun chout — Conclusion; summary; final part of a text

စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျမှု

sei' da' kja hmu — Depression; low morale; feeling of emotional dejection

ကဗျာ

ka bja — Poem; poetry; literary work written in verse

တစ်ပုဒ်

ti bou' — One piece; one item of writing or literary work

ရေးသား

yay tha — To write; to compose a text or literary piece

လိုသည်

lo the' — Need; want; require something for a purpose

မဟုတ်

ma hou' — Not; is not; negation of identity or fact

သို့သော်

tho thaw — However; but; nevertheless; conjunction showing contrast

မနက်ခင်း

ma ne' khin — Morning; the early part of the day

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle for place or time

ကြက်တူရွေး

kje' tu yway — Rooster; cockerel; male domestic chicken

သည်

the' — Is; am; are; present tense verb marker in Burmese

မိမိ

mi mi — One's own; oneself; reflexive pronoun in Burmese

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone or something

အိပ်ရာ

ai' ya — Bed; sleeping place; where one rests at night

ပေါ်မှ

pau' hma — From on top of; off of; away from a surface

ကြေးမော်

kje maw — Trumpet; brass instrument; bugle used to signal

သကဲ့သို့

tha ke tho — Like; as if; in the same manner as something

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; indicates direct object

နိုးနိုးကြားကြား

no no kja kja — Alertly; awakened and attentive; in a lively manner

ဖြစ်စေရန်

pfyi' se yan — In order to cause; so that something happens

သာ

tha — Only; merely; just; limiting or emphatic particle

ဝါကြွား

wa kjwa — To boast; to brag; to show off proudly

ချင်ပါသည်

chin ba the' — Want to; desire to do something; polite wish

အောက်ပါ

au' pa — Following; below; as stated below in text

စာမျက်နှာများ

sa mye' hna mya — Pages; the numbered sheets of a book or document

စဉ်

sin — During; while; throughout a period of time

မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်

mi mi ko' tain — Oneself; personally; by one's own hand or effort

တည်ဆောက်

ti saun — To build; to construct; to establish a structure

ခဲ့သော

khe thaw — Past tense modifier; that which was done previously

အိမ်

ain — House; home; dwelling place where one lives

ပြည်နယ်

pji ne — State; province; administrative region of a country

မြို့

mjo — Town; city; urban settlement or municipality

ကမ်းစပ်

kan za' — Shoreline; bank; edge of a body of water

မည်သည့်

ma nyi — Any; whichever; whatever; referring to an unspecified thing

အိမ်နီးချင်း

ain ni chin — Neighbor; person living nearby or in adjacence

မှ

hma — From; source marker particle indicating origin or starting point

တစ်မိုင်

ti main — One mile; a unit of distance measurement

ခန့်

khe — Approximately; about; roughly; estimating a quantity

ကွာဝေးသော

kwa way thaw — Distant; far away; separated by a long distance

သစ်တော

thi' taw — Forest; woodland; large area covered with trees

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; into; indicating interior location

နေထိုင်

nay htain — To live; to reside; to dwell in a place

ကာ

ka — While; doing; gerundive connector linking two actions

လက်အလုပ်

le' a lou' — Manual labor; handwork; physical work done by hand

ဖြင့်

pfyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်း

a the' mway wan kjoun — Livelihood; means of earning a living; occupation

ခဲ့သည်

khe the' — Did; past tense marker indicating completed action

ထိုနေရာ

hto nay ya — That place; there; the location previously mentioned

နှစ်နှစ်

hnit hnit — Two years; a period of two years duration

နှစ်လ

hnit la — Two months; a period lasting two months

ယခုအခါ

ya khu a kha — Nowadays; currently; at the present time

ယဉ်ကျေးသော

yin kje thaw — Civilized; cultured; refined in manners or lifestyle

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life; existence; one's way of living

တဖန်

ta pfan — Again; once more; returning to a previous state

ခေတ္တ

khe' ta — Temporarily; briefly; for a short period of time

ခိုလှုံ

kho hlon — To take refuge; to shelter; seek temporary haven

နေသူ

nay thu — Person who lives; resident; one who dwells somewhere

တစ်ဦး

ti u — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyi' the' — Is; becomes; to be; present tense existential verb

မြို့သူမြို့သားများ

mjo thu mjo tha mya — Townspeople; city dwellers; urban residents collectively

နေထိုင်မှု

nay htain hmu — Way of living; residence; manner of dwelling

ပုံစံ

pon zan — Style; pattern; form; manner or mode of something

ပတ်သက်

pa' the' — Concerning; related to; having connection with something

၍

yway — Therefore; so; connective particle showing cause or continuation

အထူးသီးသန့်

a htu thi than — Especially exclusive; particularly private or personal

မေးမြန်းမှုများ

may mjan hmu mya — Questions; inquiries; acts of asking for information

မပြုလုပ်

ma pju lou' — Did not do; did not perform; negated action

ခဲ့ကြ

khe kja — Plural past marker; they did; all did previously

လျှင်

hljin — If; when; conditional particle introducing a condition

ကိစ္စရပ်များ

ki' sa ya' mya — Matters; affairs; issues or situations to be addressed

စာဖတ်သူများ

sa phat thu mya — Readers; people who read books or texts

အာရုံ

a yon — Attention; focus; sense perception or concentration

ဤမျှ

i mja — This much; to this extent; such a degree

ထင်ဟပ်

htin ha' — To reflect; to mirror; to be apparent or visible

မည်

ma nyi — Future marker; will; shall; indicating future tense

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma hou' pay — Not at all; certainly not; emphatic negation

အချို့

a chout — Some; a few; certain ones among a group

က

ka — Subject marker particle; indicates agent or topic

မသင့်လျော်

ma thin ljaw — Inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting for purpose

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; according to someone

ဆိုကောင်း

so kaun — May say; could argue; possibly one might state

ဆိုမည်

so ma nyi — Will say; shall say; future quotation marker

မူ

mu — As for; topic emphasis particle; however, on the other hand

လုံးဝ

lon wa — Completely; absolutely; entirely; not at all (with negation)

မထင်ရ

ma htin ya — Should not think; must not assume or presume

ဘဲ

be — Without; not doing; particle indicating absence of action

အခြေအနေများ

a che a nay mya — Situations; conditions; circumstances prevailing at a time

ထည့်သွင်း

hte thwin — To include; to insert; to put inside something

စဉ်းစား

sin sa — To consider; to think about; to contemplate carefully

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; excessively; to a great degree

သဘာဝကျ

tha ba wa kja — Natural; fitting naturally; in accordance with nature

ပြီး

pji — After; having done; completion marker or connector

သင့်လျော်

thin ljaw — Appropriate; suitable; proper and fitting for purpose

ယူဆသည်

yu sa the' — To think; to believe; to assume or consider something

ဘာ

bha — What; interrogative pronoun asking about identity or thing

စားသောက်

sa thau' — To eat and drink; to consume food and beverages

မေးသည်

may the' — Asks; questions; poses an inquiry to someone

ဆိတ်ညံမှု

sei' nyan hmu — Silence; quietness; the state of being very quiet

မခံစားရ

ma khan sa ya — Not experience; not feel; fail to perceive something

သလား

tha la — Question particle; do you; is it; yes-no question marker

မကြောက်

ma kjau' — Not afraid; not scared; without fear of something

ဘူးလား

bu la — Haven't you; negative experience question particle

ထိုသို့သော

hto tho thaw — Such as; like that; of that kind or manner

မေးခွန်းများ

may khwan mya — Questions; queries; things asked of another person

မေးကြ

may kja — They ask; people ask; plural subject asking questions