Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 7

Vocabulary

သင်တို့

thin-doh — You (plural), second person plural pronoun

အများစု

ah-mya-zu — The majority, most of something

သည်

thì — Is/are; topic marker particle in Burmese

မည်မျှ

myi-hmya — How much, how many, to what extent

နိမ့်ကျ

naing-kya — Low, inferior, degraded in status or level

ပြီး

pyee — After, finished, done, completed

လျှိုဝှက်

hsho-hwe — Secret, hidden, concealed from others

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, meaning 'which' or 'that'

ဘဝ

bawa — Life, existence, one's living condition

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, a lot of

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of, using (instrumental particle)

နေထိုင်

nay-htaing — To live, reside, dwell somewhere

နေ

nay — To stay, live, be situated; sun

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker for group actions

ကို

go — Object marker particle (accusative case marker)

အလွန်

ah-lwun — Very, extremely, excessively

ထင်ရှား

htin-sha — Famous, prominent, well-known, obvious

ပေ

pay — Emphatic sentence-final particle; foot (measurement)

အကြောင်း

ah-kyaung — About, concerning, reason, cause

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle

အတွေ့အကြုံ

ah-tway-ah-kyoun — Experience, personal encounter or encounter with events

က

ka — Subject marker particle (nominative case marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyun-naw — I, me (formal first person singular pronoun)

၏

ay — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

အမြင်

ah-myin — Opinion, view, perspective, point of view

ချွန်ထက်

chwin-htet — Sharp, keen, pointed, clever

စေ

say — Causative particle; let, make, cause to

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action

အမြဲတမ်း

ah-mye-tame — Always, forever, constantly, at all times

နယ်နိမိတ်

ne-nay-mit — Border, boundary, territorial limit

ဆီ

si — Oil; toward, in the direction of

တွင်

twing — In, at, within (locative particle)

ရပ်တည်

yat-tì — To stand firm, take a stance, be positioned

လျက်

lyet — While doing, in the act of (simultaneous action)

စီးပွားရေး

si-pwa-yay — Economy, business, economic affairs

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within, into (spatial particle)

သို့

thoe — To, toward, in the direction of

ဝင်ရောက်

win-yout — To enter, go into, penetrate a place

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of; enemy

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try, make effort, strive hard

ကြွေးမြီ

kway-mi — Debt, financial obligation owed to another

မှ

hma — From, since, out of (ablative particle)

လွတ်မြောက်

lwat-myout — To escape, be freed, gain liberation from something

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker (attributive form)

ရှေးကျ

shay-kya — Old-fashioned, archaic, outdated

နွံ

nun — Mud, swamp, quagmire, mire

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsaing-ya — Related to, concerning, pertaining to something

ဘာသာ

batha — Language, religion, faith

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'called'

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, name, summon, invite someone

တစ်ခြား

tit-kha — Other, another, different, separate

သူ

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

ကြေးဝါ

kyay-wa — Brass, bronze (copper-yellow alloy metal)

ဟူ

hu — Called, named (formal quotative/appositive marker)

၎င်းတို့

thingdoh — They, them (third person plural pronoun)

အကြွေစေ့

ah-kway-si — Coin, small metal currency piece

အချို့

ah-cho — Some, a few, certain ones

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-loat — To do, make, perform, carry out an action

ထား

hta — To place, keep, put; perfective aspect marker

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, owing to (causal particle)

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen, occur

ထို

htoe — That, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

ဆက်လက်

set-let — To continue, carry on, proceed further

အသက်ရှင်

ah-thet-shin — To be alive, survive, live on

ကာ

ka — While, as; protective particle or shield

သေဆုံး

thay-zone — To die, pass away, perish

မြုပ်နှံ

myout-hnun — To invest, sink money into something

ခြင်း

ching — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ခံ

khan — To receive, endure, bear, suffer something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; potential marker

သေး

thay — Still, yet; small (as an adjective)

ပေးဆပ်

pay-zat — To repay, pay back a debt or obligation

မည်

myi — Future tense marker, will, shall

ကတိပြု

ka-ti-pyu — To make a promise, give one's word

မနက်ဖြန်

ma-net-hpyan — Tomorrow, the next day

ယနေ့

ya-nay — Today, this present day

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed, exactly (emphatic particle)

မဆပ်

ma-zat — Not repaying, failing to pay back debt

နိုင်

naing — Can, able to, capable of doing something

ဘဲ

be — Without doing, not doing (negative manner particle)

နည်းလမ်း

ni-lan — Method, way, approach, technique

မဆို

ma-hsoe — Whatever, whichever, any at all

နိုင်ငံတော်

naing-ngan-daw — State, nation, country (formal/official term)

ထောင်ဒဏ်

htaung-dan — Prison sentence, imprisonment as punishment

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop; directional verb downward

မည့်

myi — Future attributive marker for relative clauses

ကျူးလွန်မှု

kyu-lwun-hmu — Offense, violation, crime committed

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely (restrictive particle)

မပြု

ma-pyu — Not to do, not perform an action

ဘောဂ

bawga — Wealth, prosperity, worldly possessions

သာဓု

tha-du — Bravo, well done, expression of approval (Pali)

ကြိုးပမ်း

kyo-pan — To strive, endeavor, make earnest effort

ဖောက်သည်

hpout-thì — Customer, client, buyer of goods

မုသာ

mu-tha — Lie, falsehood, untruth (often from Pali)

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, talk, tell

ချီးမွမ်း

chi-mwun — To praise, compliment, speak highly of

မဲပေး

me-pay — To vote, cast a ballot in an election

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin-kyay-hmu — Culture, civilization, cultural practices

အခွံမာ

ah-khun-ma — Hard shell; crustacean or hard-shelled creature

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, upon, surface; to appear

မိမိတို့

mi-mi-doh — We ourselves, our own group (reflexive plural)

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self, oneself (reflexive pronoun)

ကျုံ့ချုံ့

kyoun-choun — Crouching, hunched, shrunken posture

ကျင်း

kyin — Pit, hole, trough; to hold an event

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

ပျော့ပျောင်း

pyaw-pyaung — Soft, flexible, gentle, pliable

ဂရုဏာ

ga-yu-na — Compassion, mercy, sympathy for suffering beings

ပါးလွှာ

pa-hla — Thin, slim, having little thickness

လေထု

lay-htu — Atmosphere, air, the surrounding air mass

ချဲ့

che — To expand, enlarge, extend, stretch out

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, self (reflexive pronoun, singular)

နေဘက်ချင်း

nay-bet-chin — Neighbor, person living nearby

သင်

thin — You (singular); to study, learn

ဖိနပ်

hpi-nat — Shoe, footwear worn on the feet

ထုပ်

htoat — Package, parcel, bundle, wrapped item

အကျည်း

ah-kyi — Ugly, hideous, unpleasant in appearance

ယာဉ်

yin — Vehicle, conveyance, means of transport

၎င်း

thinge — It, that (formal third person pronoun)

ကုန်စည်

koun-zi — Goods, commodities, merchandise

တင်သွင်း

tin-thwing — To import, bring in from another country

ခွင့်ပြု

To permit, allow, give approval for something

ရေး

yay — To write; suffix indicating matters or affairs

ဆွဲဆောင်

hswè-hsaung — To attract, lure, draw in, entice

နာမကျန်းမ

na-ma-kyan-ma — Sick, ill, in poor health

ဖြစ်မီ

hpyit-mi — Before something happens, prior to occurrence

ကာကွယ်

ka-kwe — To protect, defend, guard against harm

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing, a single item or unit

ခု

khu — Now, at present; counter for objects

ဘေး

bay — Side, flank; danger, hazard, peril

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment; to aim, weigh, measure

နာ

na — To hurt, feel pain, be ill

ရှေးဟောင်း

shay-haung — Ancient, antique, old and historical

သေတ္တာ

thay-ta — Box, chest, trunk for storing items

ကြီး

ji — Big, large, great, important

နံရံချပ်

nan-yan-chat — Wall panel, plaque, flat wall piece

နောက်

nout — After, behind, next, later

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, there is or are

ခြေအိတ်

chay-eit — Sock, stocking worn on the foot

ပိုမို

po-mo — More, increasingly, to a greater degree

စိတ်ချ

seit-cha — To feel confident, assured, at ease

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a … manner'

အုတ်

out — Brick, used for building construction

ဘဏ်

bun — Bank, financial institution for money

သိမ်းဆည်း

thein-zi — To seize, confiscate, collect and store

မည်သည့်

myi-thì — Whichever, whatever, any (interrogative relative)

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot, position

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit-say — Whether, regardless, causing to become

များများ

mya-mya — A lot, many, in large quantities

နည်းနည်း

ni-ni — A little, a bit, a small amount

အရေး

ah-yay — Importance, matter, concern, affair

မကြီး

ma-ji — Not big, small, not important

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit-kha-tit-yan — Sometimes, occasionally, from time to time

အံ့သြ

an-thaw — To be amazed, surprised, astonished

မိ

mi — To catch, seize; mother (informal)

မည်သို့

myi-thoe — How, in what way, by what means

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, as much as (equalizer particle)

ပေါ့ဆ

paw-za — Careless, negligent, irresponsible

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also, to be included

သ

tha — Suffix indicating continuous or habitual action

နည်း

ni — Way, method; few, little (adjective)

ဆို

hsoe — To say, mean, called; quotative verb

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kyan-tan — Rough, harsh, brutal, violent in manner

သော်လည်း

thaw-le — However, but, although, even so

တစ်ဖက်သတ်

tit-hpet-thet — One-sided, unilateral, biased

ပြည်ပ

pyi-pa — Foreign, overseas, outside the country

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pon-than-dan — Shape, form, appearance, figure

ချုပ်နှောင်

chout-hnaung — To bind, restrain, shackle, tie up

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; action, matter, case

အာရုံ

ah-yone — Sense, attention, focus, perception

မြောက်ဘက်

myout-bet — North, northern direction

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunctive particle)

တောင်ဘက်

taung-bet — South, southern direction

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit-hpet — Both sides, two sides, bilateral

လုံး

lone — Whole, entire, round; counter for round objects

နက်နဲ

net-ne — Deep, profound, complex, intricate

သခင်

tha-khing — Master, lord, owner (also used for teachers)

များပြား

mya-pya — Numerous, abundant, plentiful in quantity

မသိ

ma-thi — Not knowing, unaware, ignorant of something