War and Peace — Page 8

Vocabulary

သူတို့

thu-toh — They; third person plural pronoun

ပြောကြ

pyaw-kya — To speak or talk together (plural)

တယ်

teh — Colloquial sentence-final particle confirming statement

အိုမင်းသော

o-min-thaw — Old and aged; elderly in appearance

အပျိုကြီး

a-pyoh-ji — Spinster; older unmarried woman

များသည်

mya-thi — To be many; to be numerous

လူချင်း

lu-jin — Person to person; interpersonal connection

ချိတ်ဆက်

chait-saik — To connect; to link together

ပေးလို

pay-lo — To want to give; desire to provide

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which or that

စိတ်ဆန္ဒ

seit-sanda — Desire; wish; will; intention

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

တတ်ကြ

tat-kya — To be able to; habitually do (plural)

တယ်လို့

teh-loh — Quotative particle; saying that; reportedly

ငါ့ကိုယ်ငါ

nga-ko-nga — Myself; oneself (informal first person)

ထို

htoe — That; those; demonstrative pronoun

အားနည်းချက်

a-ni-chait — Weakness; shortcoming; flaw

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; toward; to

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no

ခံစားရ

khan-sa-ya — To feel; to experience an emotion

သေး

thay — Still; yet; additionally (sentence particle)

ပေမယ့်

pay-meh — But; however; although; nevertheless

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; self; reflexive pronoun

ဖခင်

pha-khin — Father; male parent

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

အတူ

a-tu — Together; along with; jointly

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — Happy; joyful; cheerful

နေသော

nay-thaw — Who is living; currently residing (relative)

လူငယ်

lu-ngeh — Young person; youth

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person; a single individual

ငါ

nga — I; me (informal first person pronoun)

သိ

thi — To know; to be aware of

သည်

thi — Present tense copula or topic marker particle

သူမ

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

သင့်

thinn — You; your (polite second person pronoun)

ဆွေမျိုး

swe-myoh — Relative; family relation; kin

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is; to be; to exist as

မင်းသမီး

min-thami — Princess; royal daughter

မင်းသား

min-tha — Prince; royal son; male royalty

ဖြေဆို

phyay-so — To answer; to respond to a question

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker; did; went (away)

သော်လည်း

thaw-leh — Even though; although; nevertheless

လောက

law-ka — World; society; the earthly realm

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

ကျွမ်းကျင်

kywan-jin — Skilled; expert; proficient; experienced

သောသူ

thaw-thu — The person who; one who does

ကိုက်ညီ

kait-nyi — To match; to fit; to be compatible

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker; that; which

မှတ်ဉာဏ်

hmut-nyan — Memory; recollection; ability to remember

သိမြင်မှု

thi-myin-hmu — Perception; cognitive understanding; awareness

၏

eh — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

လျင်မြန်

lyin-myan — Fast; quick; rapid; speedy

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; the act of doing

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; using (instrumental)

သတင်းအချက်အလက်

tha-din-a-chait-a-lait — Information; data; facts and details

သူ

thu — He; him; third person singular pronoun

စဉ်းစား

sin-sa — To think; to consider; to ponder

နေကြောင်း

nay-kjawng — That one is doing; reported action particle

ခေါင်း

khawng — Head; top part of the body

လှုပ်ရှား

hlut-sha — To move; to be active; to stir

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To express; to indicate; to show

သင်

thinn — You (polite); second person singular pronoun

သလား

tha-la — Question particle; is it so? do you?

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-zone — Last; final; ultimately; at the end

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell

လိုက်

lait — To follow; directional verb particle

ဝမ်းနည်းသော

wun-ni-thaw — Sad; sorrowful; feeling grief

တွေးတော

tway-taw — To reflect; to contemplate; to meditate

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizing suffix; act or matter

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more

စီးဆင်းမှု

si-zin-hmu — Flow; circulation; the act of flowing

တားဆီး

ta-zi — To obstruct; to prevent; to block

၍

yway — Therefore; so; because (connective particle)

မရ

ma-ya — Cannot; unable to; not possible

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying; called

ထင်ရ

htin-ya — To seem; to appear; to think apparently

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My (formal male possessive first person)

တစ်နှစ်

tit-hnit — One year; a single year

လျှင်

lyin — If; when; conditional particle

ကုန်ကျ

koun-kya — To cost; to spend; to expend money

စေ

say — Causative particle; to cause; to make

နေသည်

nay-thi — Is living; is residing; ongoing action

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — And then; after that; furthermore

ခေတ္တ

khayit — Temporarily; briefly; for a short time

ရပ်

yat — To stop; to halt; to stand still

ပြီးနောက်

pyi-nout — After; afterwards; following completion

ဆက်လက်

saik-lait — To continue; to proceed; to carry on

ဒီလို

di-lo — Like this; in this way; thus

ဆက်

saik — To continue; to follow; to connect

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb away from speaker

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall

ဆိုလျှင်

so-lyin — If one says; if that is the case

ငါးနှစ်

nga-hnit — Five years; a period of five years

အတွင်း

a-twin — Within; inside; during a period

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to happen

နည်း

ni — Method; way; how (interrogative)

မကြာမီ

ma-kya-mi — Soon; before long; in the near future

ထပ်

htat — Again; additionally; once more

ဖြည့်

phyi — To fill; to supplement; to complete

ဒါပဲ

da-beh — That's all; just that; nothing more

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kyun-daw-toh — We; us (formal male first person plural)

သည်းခံ

thi-khan — To endure; to be patient; to tolerate

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; able to

မည့်

myi — Future relative clause marker; will be

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; affair

သင်၏

thinn-eh — Your; belonging to you (polite form)

ချမ်းသာ

chun-tha — Wealthy; prosperous; comfortable; well-off

ပြီး

pyi — Already done; completion particle; and then

ဝေးကွာ

way-kwa — Far away; distant; remote

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; ongoing action particle

နယ်ပယ်

neh-peh — Field; domain; area; territory

နေထိုင်

nay-htine — To reside; to live in a place

ဘုရင်

pha-yin — King; monarch; ruler

မင်းမြတ်

min-myat — Majesty; noble ruler; royal personage

လက်ထက်

lait-htat — Reign; era; period of rule

တပ်မတော်

tat-ma-daw — Armed forces; military; national army

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative case marker

အနားယူ

a-na-yu — To rest; to take a break

အမည်ပေး

a-myi-pay — To name; to give a name to

ခံရ

khan-ya — To receive; to undergo; to suffer

ကျော်ကြား

kyaw-kya — Famous; renowned; well-known

ဉာဏ်

nyan — Intelligence; wisdom; intellect

ကောင်း

kawng — Good; excellent; well; fine

ထူးဆန်း

htu-zan — Strange; unusual; remarkable; peculiar

ငြီးငွေ့

nyi-ngway — Bored; weary; tired of something

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phway-kawng — Worthy of; deserving; fitting to do

ဆင်းရဲ

sin-yeh — Poor; impoverished; in hardship

မိန်းကလေး

mein-ga-lay — Girl; young female child

ပေ

pay — Sentence final emphasis particle; indeed

ညီအစ်ကို

nyi-a-ko — Brother; male sibling relationship

ရှိသည်

shi-thi — There is; exists; has (present tense)

သူ့ကို

thu-ko — Him; to him; object form of he

ထင်

htin — To think; to believe; to suppose

မကြာ

ma-kya — Not long; soon; in a short time

သေးမီက

thay-mi-ga — Before long ago; not long before; recently

မေးနင်

may-nin — To ask; to question (informal form)

လက်ထပ်

lait-htat — To marry; to wed; to get married

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Having become; being; since it is

ဒီ

di — This; these; proximal demonstrative

ညနေ

nya-nay — Evening; late afternoon

ဤနေရာ

i-nay-ya — This place; here; this location

သို့

thoh — To; toward; in the direction of

ရောက်ရှိ

yout-shi — To arrive; to reach; to be present

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

နားထောင်

na-htawng — To listen; to pay attention by hearing

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; please; also

ချစ်သော

chit-thaw — Beloved; dear; loving (relative clause)

အနက်တင်

a-nait-tin — To interpret; to define meaning; to explain

ရုတ်တရက်

yout-ta-yait — Suddenly; abruptly; all at once

လက်

lait — Hand; arm; also used in compounds

ဆုပ်ကိုင်

souk-kine — To grip; to grasp; to hold tightly

ကာ

ka — While doing; continuous action connector

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-sone-tit-ya — Something; anything; some matter

အကြောင်း

a-kjawng — Reason; cause; about; concerning

ကြောင့်

kjawng — Because of; due to; for the reason

အောက်

out — Below; under; beneath; lower

ဆွဲချ

sweh-cha — To pull down; to drag downward