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Vocabulary

ထို့ကြောင့်ပင်

hto̤ kjàʊɴ piɴ — precisely because of that; for that very reason

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည်

tɕənoup tó θì — we (formal); referring to ourselves formally

တစ်ဦး

tɪʔ ú — one person; a single individual

နှင့်

n̥ɪɴ — and; with; together with

နှုတ်ဆက်တတ်ကြပြီး

n̥ouʔ sɛʔ taʔ tɕa̰ bjí — habitually greet one another; exchange greetings regularly

အထူးသဖြင့်

ʔătʰú θə bjɪɴ — especially; particularly; in particular

နှစ်ဦးစလုံး

n̥ɪʔ ú sə lóʊɴ — both people; both of them

စိတ်ကောင်း

seɪʔ káʊɴ — good mood; kind-hearted; good disposition

နေချိန်တွင်

nè tɕʰèɪɴ twɪɴ — during the daytime; in the sunny period

ပို၍ပင်

pó jwḭ piɴ — even more so; all the more

ထိုသို့

hto̤ θo̤ — in that way; thus; like that

ဖြစ်တတ်၏

pjɪʔ taʔ ɛ̀ — tends to happen; is apt to occur

တစ်နေ့က

tɪʔ nè ga̰ — one day; once upon a day (past reference)

နှစ်ရက်ကြာ

n̥ɪʔ jɛʔ tɕá — lasting two days; for two days

မတွေ့မိဘဲ

mə twḛ mḭ bɛ̀ — without having met; not having encountered each other

နေပြီးနောက်

nè bjí nàʊʔ — after being (away/apart); subsequently

သုံးရက်မြောက်

θóʊɴ jɛʔ mjàʊʔ — on the third day; reaching the third day

နေ့တွင်

nè twɪɴ — on that day; during that day

တွေ့မိကြ

twḛ mḭ tɕa̰ — happened to meet; encountered each other

သောအခါ

θɔ̀ ʔəkʰá — when; at the time that

သေးသော်လည်း

θé θɔ̀ lɛ́ — although small/still; nevertheless; even so

အချိန်မီ

ʔə tɕʰèɪɴ mì — in time; on time; before it's too late

သိမိ၍

θḭ mḭ jwḭ — having realized; upon becoming aware

လက်ကို

lɛʔ go — the hand; (object marker) one's hand

ချလိုက်ကာ

tɕʰa̰ laiʔ ká — having lowered/put down; dropping down swiftly

စိတ်ဝင်စားသော

seɪʔ wɪɴ sá θɔ̀ — interested; showing curiosity or interest

အကြည့်ဖြင့်

ʔə tɕʰɛ̀ pjɪɴ — with a gaze; using a particular look

တစ်ဦးကို

tɪʔ ú go — at/toward one person; (object) one individual

ဖြတ်သွားကြ

pjaʔ θwá tɕa̰ — passed by each other; went past

၏

ɛ̀ — grammatical particle indicating possession or assertion

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

tɕənoup θì — I (formal); formal first-person subject marker

အိမ်များကိုလည်း

ʔèɪɴ mjá go lɛ́ — also the houses; the homes as well

သိကျွမ်း

θḭ tɕwáɴ — to be acquainted with; to know well

ပေ၏

pè ɛ̀ — indeed; emphatic sentence-final particle

ကျွန်ုပ်

tɕənoup — I; me (formal, polite first-person pronoun)

လမ်းလျှောက်

láɴ lʃàʊʔ — to walk; to go on foot

သွားစဉ်

θwá sɪɴ — while going; in the course of traveling

ထိုအိမ်များသည်

hto̤ ʔèɪɴ mjá θì — those houses; referring to those buildings formally

လမ်းပေါ်သို့

láɴ pɔ̀ θo̤ — onto the street; toward the road

ထွက်လာ၍

tʰwɛʔ lá jwḭ — having come out; emerging and then

တိုင်းတိုင်း

tàɪɴ tàɪɴ — every single one; each and every

နိုင်နိုင်

nàɪɴ nàɪɴ — as much as possible; thoroughly; capably

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pjətɪɴ paʊʔ — window; an opening in a wall for light

တိုင်းမှ

tàɪɴ m̥a̰ — from every; from each one

ကျွန်ုပ်ကို

tɕənoup go — me (formal object); toward me formally

ကြည့်ရှုကာ

tɕʰɛ̀ ʃù ká — having watched; looking and observing

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ

məɡəlà nàɴnɛʔ kʰíɴ bá — Good morning (polite Burmese morning greeting)

နေကောင်းပါ

nè káʊɴ bá — Are you well? (polite health inquiry)

သလား

θə lá — question particle meaning 'is it so?'

ကျွန်တော်

tɕənɔ̀ — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun)

ကောင်းကောင်းမွန်မွန်

káʊɴ káʊɴ mùɴ mùɴ — very well; in excellent condition; perfectly fine

နေပါ၏

nè bá ɛ̀ — am living well; am doing fine (formal)

ဘုရားသခင်

pʰəjá θəkʰɪɴ — God; the Lord; God Almighty

ကျေးဇူးတော်

tɕéZú dɔ̀ — God's grace; divine blessing or favor

ကြီးပါ၏

tɕí bá ɛ̀ — is great; is immense (formal assertion)

ငါ့အိမ်ကို

ŋá ʔèɪɴ go — my house (informal); to my home

မေလမှာ

mè la̰ m̥a̰ — in May; during the month of May

ထပ်တိုး

tʰaʔ tó — to add on; extend or expand additionally

ဆောက်မည်

sàʊʔ mɪ̀ — will build; plans to construct

ဟုလည်းကောင်း

hù lɛ́ káʊɴ — as well as saying; also stating that

နေကောင်းပါသလား

nè káʊɴ bá θə lá — Are you doing well? (polite greeting inquiry)

မနက်ဖြန်

mənɛʔ pʰjàɴ — tomorrow; the next morning

ပြန်လည်

pjàɴ lɛ̀ — to return; to redo; once again

အလှဆင်မည်

ʔəlʰa̰ sʰɪɴ mɪ̀ — will decorate; plans to beautify or adorn

ငါ

ŋá — I; me (informal, casual first-person pronoun)

မီးမလောင်မီ

mí mə láʊɴ mì — before the fire burned; before catching fire

အဆုံးနှင့်

ʔəzóʊɴ n̥ɪɴ — along with the end; near the conclusion

လွတ်ခဲ့၍

lwʌʔ kʰɛ̀ jwḭ — having narrowly escaped; gotten away from danger

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

tɕàʊʔ mɛʔ pʰwɛ̀ káʊɴ θɔ̀ — terrifying; dreadful; causing fear and horror

အတွေ့အကြုံ

ʔə twḛ ʔə tɕòʊɴ — experience; personal encounter or life experience

ဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါ၏

pjɪʔ kʰɛ̀ bá ɛ̀ — it turned out to be; happened formally

ဆိုသည်ဟု

so̤ θì hù — saying that; as they say; reportedly

ခံစားရသကဲ့သို့

kʰàɴ sá já θə kɛ̀ θo̤ — as if feeling; just as one experiences

ရှိ၏

ʃḭ ɛ̀ — there is; exists (formal assertion particle)

ထိုအိမ်များ

hto̤ ʔèɪɴ mjá — those houses; those particular buildings

အနက်

ʔə nɛʔ — among; within; in the middle of

နှစ်သက်ရာများ

n̥ɪʔ θɛʔ já mjá — things one likes; beloved or favored things

တချို့မှာ

tə tɕʰo̤ m̥a̰ — some of them; a few among them

ချစ်ခင်ရသော

tɕʰɪʔ kʰɪɴ já θɔ̀ — lovable; dear; that can be affectionately regarded

မိတ်ဆွေများပင်

mèɪʔ swé mjá piɴ — even friends; actually one's own friends

ဖြစ်ကြ၏

pjɪʔ tɕa̰ ɛ̀ — they are; they have become (formal plural)

၎င်းတို့

ðìɴ dó — they; those; referring to aforementioned subjects

တစ်လုံးသည်

tɪʔ lóʊɴ θì — one (building/object); a single one of them

ဤနွေရာသီတွင်

ʔì nwè já θì twɪɴ — during this summer; in this summer season

ဗိသုကာ

bḭ θəká — architect; a professional building designer

ပညာရှင်၏

pəɲà ʃɪɴ ɛ̀ — of the expert; belonging to the specialist

ကုသမှုကို

koʊθa̰ m̥ù go — treatment; medical or restorative care (object)

ခံယူရန်

kʰàɴ jú jàɴ — in order to receive; to undergo treatment

စီစဉ်ထားသည်ဟု

sì zɪɴ tʰá θì hù — saying that it is planned; reportedly arranged

ဆို၏

so̤ ɛ̀ — says; it is said (formal assertion)

ထိုလုပ်ငန်းသည်

hto̤ louʔ ŋáɴ θì — that work/project; that particular undertaking formally

မအောင်မြင်

mə ʔàʊɴ mjɪɴ — not successful; failing to achieve success

မဖြစ်စေရန်

mə pjɪʔ sè jàɴ — in order not to let happen; to prevent

ကြည့်ရှုသော

tɕʰɛ̀ ʃù θɔ̀ — watching over; that which watches or oversees

အလို့ငှာ

ʔəlo̤ ŋʰá — for the purpose of; in order to; for the sake

နေ့တိုင်း

nè tàɪɴ — every day; daily; each and every day

သွားလည်မည်

θwá lɛ̀ mɪ̀ — will go visit; plans to go and see

မဖြစ်ပါ

mə pjɪʔ bá — it won't do; that cannot happen (polite)

စေနှင့်

sè n̥ɪɴ — don't let; imperative particle to prevent action

သို့သော်

θo̤ θɔ̀ — however; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

သာယာ

θá já — pleasant; beautiful; agreeable; delightful

လှပသော

lʰa̰ pa̰ θɔ̀ — beautiful; pretty; that which is lovely

ပန်းရောင်

páɴ jàʊɴ — pink color; flower-like rosy color

ဖျော့ဖျော့လေး

pʰjɔ̀ pʰjɔ̀ lé — softly; gently; in a pale or soft manner

ဆိုးထားသော

só tʰá θɔ̀ — painted; that has been colored or dyed

အိမ်ငယ်လေး

ʔèɪɴ ŋɛ̀ lé — a small little house; a tiny cute home

တစ်လုံးနှင့်

tɪʔ lóʊɴ n̥ɪɴ — with one (house/object); along with a single one

ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သော

pjɪʔ pwá kʰɛ̀ θɔ̀ — that occurred; that took place in the past

အဖြစ်အပျက်

ʔə pjɪʔ ʔə pjɛʔ — incident; event; something that happened

တစ်ခုကို

tɪʔ kʰù go — one thing (object); a particular one

ဘယ်သောအခါမျှ

bɛ̀ θɔ̀ ʔəkʰá mjà — never; at no time whatsoever

မမေ့နိုင်ပေ

mə mḛ nàɪɴ pè — cannot forget; unable to forget at all

ထိုအိမ်သည်

hto̤ ʔèɪɴ θì — that house; referring to that particular home

မိုးကျောက်ဖြင့်

mó tɕàʊʔ pjɪɴ — with brick; built using bricks or masonry

ဆောက်လုပ်ထားသော

sàʊʔ louʔ tʰá θɔ̀ — built; constructed; that has been erected

ချစ်ဖွယ်ကောင်းလှသည့်

tɕʰɪʔ pʰwɛ̀ káʊɴ lʰa̰ θɪ̀ — very lovable; adorably charming and delightful

အိမ်ငယ်

ʔèɪɴ ŋɛ̀ — small house; little home; cottage

တစ်လုံး

tɪʔ lóʊɴ — one (classifier for buildings or round objects)

ဖြစ်ပြီး

pjɪʔ bjí — being; having become; and so it is

ဧည့်ဝတ်ပြုလို

ʔɛ̀ wʌʔ pjù lo̤ — wanting to show hospitality; wishing to entertain guests

ဆန္ဒပြည့်ဝသော

sàɴ da̰ pjɪ̀ wà θɔ̀ — full of desire; with wishes fulfilled; eager

စူးစမ်း

sú záɴ — to investigate; to inquire; to probe curiously

ကြည့်ရှုမှုဖြင့်

tɕʰɛ̀ ʃù m̥ù pjɪɴ — with a looking/watching manner; with observation

လည်းကောင်း

lɛ́ káʊɴ — also; as well; both… and

ရှိသည့်

ʃḭ θɪ̀ — that exists; which has; that is present

မိမိ၏

mḭ mḭ ɛ̀ — one's own; belonging to oneself

အိမ်နီးချင်းများကို

ʔèɪɴ ní tɕʰɪɴ mjá go — neighbors; the neighboring households (object)

မာနရှိရှိ

màna̰ ʃḭ ʃḭ — with pride; in a proud or haughty manner

သဏ္ဍာန်ဖြင့်

θàɴ d̪àɴ pjɪɴ — with an air/appearance of; in the manner of

ငေးကြည့်

ŋé tɕʰɛ̀ — to stare; to gaze fixedly at something

နေသောကြောင့်

nè θɔ̀ tɕàʊɴ — because of living/staying; due to that state

ထိုအိမ်ကို

hto̤ ʔèɪɴ go — that house (object); toward that home

ဖြတ်မိသည့်တိုင်း

pjaʔ mḭ θɪ̀ tàɪɴ — every time one passes by; whenever passing

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

tɕənoup ɛ̀ — my (formal); belonging to me (formal possessive)

နှလုံးသည်

n̥əlóʊɴ θì — the heart; one's inner heart or feelings

ပျော်ရွှင်မိ၏

pjɔ̀ ʃwɪɴ mḭ ɛ̀ — felt joy; became happy; experienced delight

ရုတ်တရက်

jouʔ tə jɛʔ — suddenly; all at once; abruptly

ပြီးခဲ့သော

bjí kʰɛ̀ θɔ̀ — past; that has already finished or ended