War and Peace — Page 3

Vocabulary

ဒါနဲ့

da-neh — and this; conjunction linking this with something else

ရဲ့

yeh — possessive or topic marker particle in Burmese

ကြေညာချက်

kjeh-nya-chet — official announcement or declaration made publicly

နဲ့

neh — and; with; conjunction or comitative particle

ပတ်သက်

pat-thek — to be related or connected to something

ပြီး

pyi — finished; after completing; done with an action

ဘာ

ba — what; interrogative pronoun asking about things

ဆုံးဖြတ်

sone-pyat — to decide; to make a final determination

ခဲ့

kheh — past tense marker indicating completed action

သလဲ

tha-leh — question particle asking for confirmation or choice

သင်

thin — you; second person pronoun, formal register

တော့

taw — particle indicating contrast, topic shift, or then

အရာရာ

a-ya-ya — everything; all things without exception

ကို

ko — object marker particle indicating direct object

သိ

thi — to know; to be aware of something

တာ

ta — nominalizer or sentence-final particle for actions

ပဲ

peh — only; just; emphatic or restrictive particle

အဲဒါ

eh-da — that; that thing; demonstrative pronoun for something

ပြော

pyaw — to speak; to say; to tell someone something

လို့

lo — because; so that; complementizer or reason marker

ရ

ya — to get; to receive; can; able to do

မှာ

hma — at; in; locative particle or future marker

လဲ

leh — question particle; also; too; in addition

မင်းသား

min-tha — prince; male actor; royal son

က

ka — subject marker particle; from; agent marker

အေးစက်

eh-set — to feel a chilling coldness; eerie cold sensation

စိတ်

seit — mind; heart; feeling; emotion or intention

မဝင်စား

ma-win-za — not interested in; showing no interest at all

သည့်

theh — relative clause marker modifying a preceding noun

အသံ

a-thun — sound; voice; audio; noise made by something

ဖြင့်

hpyin — with; by means of; instrumental case marker

ပြန်ဆို

pyan-so — to translate; to retell or respond in reply

လိုက်

lite — to follow; directional complement indicating along or after

သည်

thi — present tense marker; formal sentence-final particle

သူ့

thu — his; possessive form of third person pronoun

လှေ

hleh — boat; small traditional watercraft

များ

mya — plural marker; many; more; lots of something

မီးရှို့

mi-sho — to set on fire; to burn something deliberately

ဟု

hu — quotative particle meaning said or thus stated

သူတို့

thu-do — they; them; third person plural pronoun

ကြ

kja — plural verb marker or together action particle

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjanu-do — we; us; first person plural formal pronoun

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-dine — oneself; personally; by one's own self

လည်း

leh — also; too; as well; additive particle

၏

eh — formal possessive marker; of; belonging to

ရန်

yan — in order to; for the purpose of doing

အသင့်

a-thín — ready; prepared; in readiness for something

ရှိ

shi — to exist; to have; to be present somewhere

ကျွန်တော်

kjana-daw — I; me; first person male formal pronoun

ယုံကြည်

yone-kji — to believe; to trust; to have faith in

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan-neh — exhausted; weary; drained of energy or strength

သော

thaw — relative clause marker; formal subordinating particle

စကားပုံ

za-ga-bone — proverb; idiom; common saying or expression

ဟောင်း

hawn — old; worn out; used; no longer new

ထပ်ခါ

htat-kha — repeatedly; again and again; over and over

တလဲလဲ

ta-leh-leh — repeatedly; over and over in a continuous manner

နေ

neh — to stay; to live; continuous aspect marker

သရုပ်ဆောင်

tha-yoke-hsawn — actor; performer; one who plays a role

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — one person; a single individual

ကဲ့သို့

keh-dho — like; similar to; in the manner of

အမြဲတမ်း

a-mje-dan — always; constantly; at all times without exception

အင်မတန်

in-ma-tan — extremely; very much; exceedingly so

ပျင်းရိ

pyin-yi — lazy; bored; lacking motivation or energy

စွာ

zwa — adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ပြောဆို

pyaw-so — to speak; to converse; to say and tell

လေ့ရှိ

leh-shi — to tend to; to habitually do something regularly

မူကား

mu-ka — as for; regarding; contrastive topic marker particle

ထို

hto — that; those; demonstrative adjective for distant thing

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; formal conjunction or comitative particle

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်

san-kjin-bek — opposite; contrary; opposing side or direction

အနေဖြင့်

a-neh-hpyin — in the position of; as; in one's capacity

သူမ

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

အသက်

a-thet — age; life; years of life lived

လေးဆယ်

leh-zeh — forty; the number forty

ကျော်

kjaw — over; more than; exceeding a certain amount

ပင်

pin — even; indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ဆို

so — to say; quotative marker; if; called

သော်လည်း

thaw-leh — although; even though; despite; concessive conjunction

လန်းဆန်းမှု

lan-zan-hmu — freshness; vibrancy; liveliness; energetic quality

တက်ကြွမှု

tet-kjwa-hmu — enthusiasm; activeness; energetic involvement in something

လျှံပြည့်

hlyam-pyi — overflowing; brimming with; full to excess

လေသည်

leh-thi — habitual or evidential sentence-final particle combination

စိတ်အားထက်သန်

seit-a-htet-than — enthusiastic; passionate; zealous about something

သူ

thu — he; she; him; her; third person pronoun

ဖြစ်ခြင်း

hpyit-chin — the fact of being; occurrence; existence as noun

လူမှုရေး

lu-hmu-yeh — social; relating to society or social affairs

တာဝန်

ta-wan — responsibility; duty; obligation one must fulfill

ဖြစ်လာ

hpyit-la — to become; to come to be; to turn into

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

ta-kha-ta-yan — sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

မပါ

ma-pa — not included; without; absent from something

တိုင်အောင်

tine-awn — until; up to; to the extent of

သူများ

thu-mya — others; other people; third parties not present

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myo-lin-chet — hope; expectation; something looked forward to

မပျက်ကွက်

ma-pyet-kwet — without fail; never missing; always doing reliably

မှု

hmu — nominalizer suffix turning verb into abstract noun

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — to express; to show; to indicate or describe

မှိန်

hmein — dim; faded; lacking brightness or clarity

သွား

thwa — to go; directional complement indicating away

မျက်နှာပြင်

myet-hna-pyin — surface; face of something; outer appearance

မလိုက်ဖက်

ma-lite-hpet — not matching; not compatible; unsuitable together

နှုတ်ခမ်း

hnote-khan — lips; the lips of a person's mouth

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat-wan-kjin — surroundings; environment; area around something

၌

naik — formal locative particle meaning at or in

အမြဲ

a-mje — always; constantly; perpetually without stopping

ကစား

ka-za — to play; to engage in games or sport

နှိမ့်ချ

hnein-cha — to belittle; to demean; to look down on

အပြုံး

a-pyone — a smile; facial expression showing happiness

ညှိပေး

hnji-peh — to adjust; to mediate; to coordinate or tune

ချင်

chin — to want to; desire to do something

ဆန္ဒ

sanda — desire; wish; will; intention or aspiration

မရှိ

ma-shi — not existing; there is none; absent; lacking

နိုင်

nine — can; able to; capable of doing something

မလိုအပ်

ma-lo-at — not necessary; not needed; unnecessary in this situation

မယူဆ

ma-yu-sa — not to consider; not to assume or think so

ဆွဲဆောင်မှု

zweh-hsawn-hmu — attraction; appeal; power to draw interest

ချို့ယွင်းချက်

cho-ywín-chet — defect; flaw; shortcoming in character or quality

ပျက်စီး

pyet-si — to be ruined; to be damaged or destroyed

ကလေး

ka-leh — child; small child; young person

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yoke — one person; a single individual person

အဆက်မပြတ်

a-zet-ma-pyat — continuously; without interruption; nonstop

သတိပြုမိ

tha-ti-pyu-mi — to notice; to become aware of something

ဖော်ညွှန်း

hpaw-hnwan — to describe; to refer to; to indicate something

နိုင်ငံရေး

nine-ngan-yeh — politics; political affairs or matters

ကိစ္စ

keissa — matter; issue; affair; case to be dealt with

စကားဝိုင်း

za-ga-wine — conversation circle; group discussion or gathering

အလယ်

a-leh — middle; center; in the midst of something

တွင်

twin — in; at; within; locative particle

ရုတ်တရက်

yote-ta-yet — suddenly; all at once; abruptly without warning

အို

o — oh; exclamation of surprise or address

အကြောင်း

a-kjawn — reason; cause; about; regarding a topic

ကျွန်မ

kjana-ma — I; me; first person female formal pronoun

မပြော

ma-pyaw — not to speak; not to say; without saying

ပါ

pa — polite particle; please; also; included with

သာမာန်

tha-man — ordinary; common; normal; not special

အားဖြင့်

a-hpyin — in terms of; by means of; regarding something

နား

na — ear; to listen; to stop; near or beside

မလည်

ma-leh — not understanding; not comprehending something said

ပေမယ့်

peh-meh — but; however; although; concessive conjunction

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-pweh — war; battle; military conflict or campaign

ဘယ်တော့

beh-taw — when; at what time; interrogative time expression

မှ

hma — from; only; emphatic or ablative particle

မပြု

ma-pyu — not to do; not to perform an action

ဖူး

hpu — ever; experiential particle indicating past experience

မှန်

hmán — correct; true; right; accurate statement

ယခု

ya-khu — now; at present; currently happening

သစ္စာဖောက်

thissa-hpoke — traitor; one who betrays trust or loyalty

ရုရှား

yu-sha — Russia; the country Russia

တစ်နိုင်ငံ

ta-nine-ngan — one country; a single nation

တည်း

teh — only; alone; restrictive emphatic particle

သာ

tha — only; just; sole; restrictive particle

ဥရောပ

u-yaw-pa — Europe; the continent of Europe

ကယ်တင်

keh-tin — to save; to rescue; to deliver from danger

မည်

myi — future tense marker; will; shall; formal particle

ကရုဏာကြီး

ka-yu-na-kji — very compassionate; merciful; having great kindness

ဘုရင်

pha-yin — king; monarch; ruler of a kingdom

မြင့်မြတ်

myin-myat — noble; exalted; great; of high dignity or status

သိရှိ

thi-shi — to know; to be informed about something

သစ္စာရှိ

thissa-shi — loyal; faithful; devoted; trustworthy and true

ထမ်းဆောင်

htan-hsawn — to carry out; to perform a duty or task

ဖြစ်

hpyit — to be; to happen; to become; to occur

အရာ

a-ya — thing; matter; object; item or subject

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — one thing; a single item or object

ကောင်းမွန်

kawn-mwan — good; excellent; of fine quality or character

အံ့ဖွယ်ကောင်း

an-hpweh-kawn — wonderful; amazing; worthy of admiration or wonder

မြေပြင်

mjeh-pyin — ground; land surface; terrain; floor level

ပေါ်

paw — on; above; surface marker; to appear or emerge

အမြင့်ဆုံး

a-myin-zone — highest; topmost; supreme level or degree

အခန်းကဏ္ဍ

a-khan-kanda — role; section; part played in something

ဆောင်ရွက်

to carry out; to conduct; to perform a task

အလွန်

a-lwan — very; extremely; excessively; beyond normal degree

တရား

ta-ya — law; justice; righteousness; doctrine or teaching

ကြောင့်

kjawn — because of; due to; owing to a cause

ဘုရားသခင်

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

စွန့်ပစ်

swan-pyit — to abandon; to give up; to cast aside

မဟုတ်

ma-hoke — not; is not; negation of being or identity

ပေ

peh — sentence-final particle adding mild assertion or obviousness