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Vocabulary

ကဲ

kɛ — Interjection expressing emphasis or urging action

မင်းသား

min-tha — Prince; male member of royal family

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; alongside

တို့သည်

toh-thì — They; plural subject marker particle

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at this present moment

မိသားစု

mi-tha-su — Family; group of related people

၏

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

ပိုင်နက်

pain-net — Territory; domain; area of possession

များသာ

mya-tha — Only; merely; just that alone

ဖြစ်နေ

hpyit-nay — Is happening; currently occurring or existing

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion or finality particle

ပေါ့

paw — Isn't it; softening or casual sentence particle

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; in contrast

သင့်ကို

thin-go — To you; directed at the listener

သတိပေး

thadi-pay — To warn; alert someone about danger

လိုသည်မှာ

lo-thì-hma — What is needed; the requirement is

ဤသည်

i-thì — This; referring to something nearby or mentioned

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-bwɛ — War; armed conflict between opposing sides

ဟု

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

သင်

thin — You; second person singular pronoun

ငါ့အား

nga-a — To me; directed toward the speaker

မပြော

ma-pyaw — Do not say; refrain from telling

မည်ဆိုလျှင်

myi-so-hlyin — If; conditional particle for future situations

ထို

htoh — That; referring to something previously mentioned

ဘုရားသခင်

pha-ya-tha-khin — God; supreme divine being

ရန်သူ

yan-thu — Enemy; hostile person or opposing force

ကျူးလွန်

kyuu-lwan — To commit; perpetrate a wrongful act

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

ရှက်ဖွယ်ရာ

shɛt-bwɛ-ya — Shameful; causing embarrassment or disgrace

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ရာ

kyout-met-bwɛ-ya — Terrible; frightening; inspiring dread or horror

အမှု

a-hmuu — Deed; act; case or matter of concern

များကို

mya-go — Plural object marker for multiple things

ဆက်လက်

set-let — Continue; proceed further without stopping

ကာကွယ်

ka-kwɛ — To defend; protect from harm or attack

ဦးမည်

u-myi — Will; future intention marker particle

ဆိုလျှင်

so-hlyin — If; conditional conjunction meaning 'in that case'

ထိုသူသည်

htoh-thu-thì — That person; referring to a specific individual

တကယ်ပင်

ta-kɛ-bin — Truly; really; genuinely indeed

ငါ

nga — I; first person singular informal pronoun

ယုံကြည်

youn-kyi — To believe; trust; have faith in

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; subject marker in sentences

ငါ့

nga — My; possessive form of first person informal

ဆက်ဆံရေး

set-san-yay — Relationship; connection between people or groups

ရှိတော့မည်

shì-taw-myi — Will no longer exist; about to cease

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not; negation; is not correct

သင်သည်

thin-thì — You are; subject marker with second person

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-swɛ — Friend; companion; close acquaintance

မဟုတ်တော့

ma-hout-taw — No longer; not anymore; ceased to be

သင်ကိုယ်တိုင်

thin-ko-tain — You yourself; personally; the person themselves

ခေါ်သကဲ့သို့

khaw-tha-kɛ-thoh — As called; just as one names something

သစ္စာရှိသော

thit-sa-shì-thaw — Loyal; faithful; true to commitments

ကျွန်

kyun — Slave; servant; one who serves another

လည်း

lɛ — Also; too; additionally; as well

မည်သို့

myi-thoh — How; in what manner or way

နေသနည်း

nay-tha-nɛ — How are you doing; how is one?

ထိတ်လန့်

hteit-lan — To be startled; frightened suddenly with shock

စေမိသည်

say-mi-thì — Caused to; made someone do something inadvertently

မြင်ရ

myin-ya — To see; to be able to observe

ထိုင်

htain — To sit; to be seated in place

ပြီး

pyi — After; having completed; then next

သတင်း

tha-din — News; information; report about events

အားလုံး

a-loun — Everyone; all; everything without exception

ငါ့ကို

nga-go — To me; object form of first person informal

ပြောပြ

pyaw-pya — Tell; explain; narrate to someone

ပါ

pa — Polite particle added to soften requests

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used after numbers for calendar years

ဇူလိုင်လ

Zu-lain-la — July; seventh month of the Gregorian calendar

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a location or time

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — Having occurred; after becoming or happening

ပြောသူ

pyaw-thu — Speaker; one who speaks or tells

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or object marker particle

နာမည်ကျော်

na-myi-jaw — Famous; well-known; renowned person or thing

ရှေးရာ

shɛ-ya — Hostess; one who hosts social gatherings

သူမသည်

thu-ma-thì — She; female subject marker in a sentence

အင်ပါယာ

in-pa-ya — Empire; large territory ruled by emperor

မိဖုရား

mi-pha-ya — Empress; queen; noble royal female

မိဖုရားတော်ဝန်

mi-pha-ya-taw-wun — Lady-in-waiting; noblewoman attending an empress

နှစ်သက်ရာ

hnit-thet-ya — Favorite; most preferred; cherished above others

ကျွန်မတော်

kyun-ma-taw — Servant; female attendant serving royalty

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-thì — Is; exists; to be something

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for nearby things

စကားများ

za-ga-mya — Words; speech; multiple spoken expressions

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using an instrument

ကို

go — Object marker particle; toward; at someone

ကြိုဆို

kyo-so — To welcome; greet warmly upon arrival

ခဲ့ပြီး

khɛ-pyi — Had done; past tense completion marker

သူသည်

thu-thì — He; male subject marker in a sentence

မြင့်မားသော

myin-ma-thaw — High; elevated in rank or status

ရာထူး

ya-htuu — Position; rank; official title or status

အရေးပါမှု

a-yay-pa-hmuu — Importance; significance; being of great value

ရှိသော

shì-thaw — Having; possessing; that which exists

သူ

thu — He; she; third person pronoun

ဖြစ်ကာ

hpyit-ka — Being; having become; as a result

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her; female third person pronoun

ဧည့်ခံပွဲ

ei-khan-bwɛ — Party; reception; social gathering for guests

သို့

thoh — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zoun — First; the earliest in order or time

ရောက်ရှိ

yout-shì — To arrive; reach a destination or place

ရက်

yet — Day; a single calendar day

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngɛ — A little; a few; small amount

မှ

hmaa — From; since; ablative source marker particle

စတင်ကာ

za-tin-ka — Starting; beginning from a certain point

ချောင်းဆိုး

chaun-so — Cough; to cough repeatedly from illness

နေသည်

nay-thì — Is staying; is currently doing something

ပြောသည့်

pyaw-thì — That is said; spoken by someone

အတိုင်း

a-tain — According to; just as; in the same way

ရောဂါ

yaw-ga — Disease; illness; medical condition affecting health

ခံစားနေ

khan-za-nay — To be experiencing; feeling a condition currently

ရသည်

ya-thì — Receives; gets; obtains something successfully

ဂရစ်ပ်

ga-yit — Grippe; influenza; contagious respiratory illness

ဆိုသည်မှာ

so-thì-hma — Meaning is; what is called; refers to

ထိုစဉ်က

htoh-zin-ga — At that time; back then; during that period

အထက်တန်းလွှာ

a-htet-tan-hlwa — Upper class; aristocracy; elite social stratum

အသုံးပြုသော

a-thoun-pyu-thaw — Used; utilized; something being applied regularly

စကားလုံးသစ်

za-ga-loun-thit — New word; recently coined term or expression

တစ်လုံး

ta-loun — One word; a single unit of vocabulary

ထိုနေ့

htoh-nay — That day; on that particular day

နံနက်

nan-net — Morning; the early part of the day

နီရဲသော

ni-yɛ-thaw — Red; bright crimson in color

ဝတ်စုံ

wut-soun — Outfit; complete set of clothing worn

ဝတ်

wut — To wear; to dress in clothing

ခြေသည်တော်

chay-thì-taw — Lady-in-waiting; noble female court attendant

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual

ပေးပို့သော

pay-poh-thaw — Sent; delivered; dispatched to a recipient

ဖိတ်ကြားစာ

pheit-kya-za — Invitation letter; written request to attend

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; multiple instances

ချွင်းချက်

chwin-chet — Exception; exclusion from a general rule

မရှိ

ma-shì — Without; does not exist; absent

ပြင်သစ်

pyin-thit — French; relating to France or its language

ဘာသာ

ba-tha — Language; religion; particular tongue spoken

ရေးသား

yay-tha — To write; compose written content formally

ထားပြီး

hta-pyi — Having placed; already done beforehand

အောက်ပါ

out-pa — Following; below; as listed underneath

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — To describe; indicate; show in text

ထားသည်

hta-thì — Has placed; kept in position or state

သင့်

thin — Your; possessive form of second person

ပို

poh — More; comparative degree of an adjective

ကောင်းသော

kaun-thaw — Good; favorable; of high quality

အလုပ်

a-lout — Work; job; task to be done

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

ta-soun-ta-ya — Something; anything; some matter or thing

ပါက

pa-ga — If; conditional particle for hypothetical situations

ကောင်စီလော်

kaun-si-law — Councillor; a member of an advisory council

သို့မဟုတ်

thoh-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively speaking

နာမကျန်းသူ

na-ma-kyan-thu — Sick person; one who is unwell

ညနေ

nya-nay — Evening; afternoon; time before nightfall

တစ်ည

ta-nya — One night; a single evening

ဖြုန်းတီး

hpyoun-ti — To waste; squander time or resources foolishly

ရသည်မှာ

ya-thì-hma — The fact of getting; what is obtained

သိပ်

thit — Very; excessively; intensifying adverb

မကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

ma-kyout-met-bwɛ — Not terrible; not frightening; harmless

ဖြစ်ပါက

hpyit-pa-ga — If it is; in the event that

ဒီညနေ

di-nya-nay — This evening; tonight's evening hours

နာရီ

na-yi — Hour; o'clock; unit of time