White nights, and other stories — Page 5

Vocabulary

ပင်

pyin — Indeed, even, emphasizing particle

ခေါ်လိုက်

khaw-laik — To call out to someone

ဖို့

hpoh — In order to, for the purpose of

စိတ်ကူး

seit-ku — To imagine, have an idea or fantasy

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her (third person feminine pronoun)

အား

a — Particle marking object or direction

ငင်ကြိုး

nyin-kyo — A rope used to pull or tether something

အိမ်

ain — House, home, dwelling place

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

ပတ်သက်

pat-thek — To be related or connected to something

၍

yway — Therefore, and so, connecting clause particle

၎င်း

da-jin — It, that, aforementioned thing or person

ယေဘုယျ

ye-boh-ya — General, in general, broadly speaking

အားဖြင့်

a-hpyin — In terms of, by means of, regarding

သပ်ရပ်မှု

thut-yut-hmu — Neatness, tidiness, orderliness

မဲ့

meh — Lacking, without, devoid of something

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix turning verb into noun

အဖ

a-hpa — Father, paternal figure

ဆန်

hsun — Rice (uncooked), to go against or oppose

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, which, that

ဆုံးမ

hsone-ma — To admonish, advise, counsel someone

စကား

za-ga — Word, speech, language, conversation

များ

mya — Plural marker, many, a lot of

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, tell something

နေ

ne — To live, stay, reside; continuous aspect marker

မိ

mi — To catch, succeed in doing, resultative particle

သည်

thi — Definite topic marker, present tense particle

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However, but, nevertheless

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

အံ့သြ

an-tho — To be amazed, surprised, astonished

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a manner of'

ငါ့

nga — My, mine (first person possessive, informal)

ကို

ko — Object marker, accusative case particle

စိုက်

sike — To plant, fix gaze, stare intently

ကြည့်

kji — To look, watch, observe something

ပြီး

pyi — After completing, already done, and then

တစ်ခွန်း

ta-khwan — One word, one phrase, a single remark

မျှ

hma — Only, just, as much as, equality particle

မပြော

ma-pyaw — To not speak, say nothing

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing, instead of doing something

ထွက်

htwet — To go out, exit, come out

သွား

thwa — To go, to have gone somewhere

လိုက်

laik — To follow, go along, directional verb particle

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, as a result

ယနေ့

ya-ne — Today, this present day

တိုင်

tine — Until, up to, as far as; to complain

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her (third person pronoun)

၏

ei — Possessive particle, of, belonging to

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place, location, spot, position

တွင်

twin — In, at, inside a place or time

သာယာ

tha-ya — Pleasant, enjoyable, peaceful, comfortable

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull, drag, attract something

လွဲ

lwe — To miss, be wrong, deviate from path

ဆဲ

hse — To curse, swear at, insult verbally

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen, occur

ဒီ

di — This, these (informal demonstrative pronoun)

နံနက်

nan-net — Morning, early part of the day

မှ

hma — From, since, only then (source marker)

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely, emphasis particle

မည်သည့်

ma-thit — Any, whichever, whatever it may be

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, affair

မှား

hma — To be wrong, mistaken, incorrect

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk-hsone — Last, final, ultimately, in the end

သဘောပေါက်

tha-baw-pauk — To understand, grasp the meaning of something

အိုး

o — Pot, jar; exclamation of surprise or realization

တကယ်တော့

ta-kye-daw — Actually, in reality, to tell the truth

သူတို့

thu-do — They, them (third person plural pronoun)

လှည့်စား

hle-za — To deceive, trick, cheat, mislead someone

နွေရာသီ

nwe-ya-thi — Summer season, hot season

အိမ်ခြံ

ain-jan — House and compound, residential property

သို့

thoh — To, toward, in the direction of

ထွက်ပြေး

htwet-pye — To run away, flee, escape quickly

ကြ

kja — Plural action marker, together, among group

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

စကားလုံး

za-ga-lone — Word, vocabulary item, linguistic unit

သိမ်ဖျင်း

thein-hpyin — To belittle, look down on, treat with contempt

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizing suffix, case, matter

ခွင့်လွှတ်

khwin-hlwut — To forgive, pardon, excuse someone's wrongdoing

ပါ

pa — Polite particle, also, too, please

ငါ

nga — I, me (first person informal pronoun)

သပ်သပ်

thut-thut — Separately, distinctly, apart from others

ရပ်ရပ်

yut-yut — Neatly, tidily, in an orderly manner

ဘာသာစကား

ba-tha-za-ga — Language, tongue, spoken communication system

သုံးစွဲ

thone-zwe — To use, utilize, spend, employ something

ရန်

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

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, emotion, intention

မပါ

ma-pa — Not included, not present, without

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, be present, there is

သမျှ

tha-ma — All, every, whatever exists, the entirety

အားလုံး

a-lone — Everyone, everything, all, the whole

အားလပ်ရက်

a-lat-yet — Holiday, day off, vacation day

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, because of

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet-khwa — To depart, leave, set off from somewhere

ပြီ

pyi — Already, completion particle, done

သို့မဟုတ်

thoh-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

ကြည်ညို

kji-nyo — To be devout, reverent, have faith in

ဖွယ်

hpwe — Worthy of, likely to, deserving of

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, fine, nice, excellent

အသွင်အပြင်

a-thwin-a-pyin — Appearance, looks, outward form, demeanor

သည့်

thit — Relative clause marker, that, which (past)

လေးစား

le-za — To respect, esteem, honor someone deeply

မျိုးသား

myo-tha — Citizen, national, fellow countryman

တိုင်း

tine — Every, each, region, division, all of

တက္ကစီ

tak-ka-si — Taxi, hired car for transportation

ကား

ka — Car, vehicle, automobile

စီး

si — To ride, travel by vehicle or animal

ပါက

pa-ka — If, in the event that, conditional particle

မျက်လုံး

myet-lone — Eye, eyeball

ချက်ချင်း

chet-chin — Immediately, right away, at once

နေ့စဉ်

ne-zin — Daily, every day, day by day

တာဝန်ဝတ္တရား

ta-wan-wut-ta-ya — Duty, responsibility, obligation one must fulfill

ပြီးစီး

pyi-si — To be completed, finished, accomplished

နောက်

nauk — After, behind, next, later

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family, household members together

ရင်ခွင်

yin-khwin — Bosom, chest, embrace, warm protection

ခရီး

kha-yi — Journey, trip, travel, voyage

အိမ်ရှင်

ain-shin — Host, homeowner, landlord or landlady

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bring, perform, fulfill something

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person, a single individual

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As, in the role of, in the capacity of

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung-le — To change, transform, alter, shift

လေ

le — Sentence final particle expressing mild assertion

လမ်းသွား

lan-thwa — Passerby, traveler going along a road

လမ်းလာ

lan-la — Traveler coming along a road, passerby

ယခု

ya-khu — Now, at present, currently

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when, at the time of

ထူးဆန်း

htu-hsan — Strange, unusual, extraordinary, peculiar

ဟန်ပန်

han-pan — Manner, bearing, style, posture, demeanor

ကာ

ka — While doing, temporary action connector particle

တွေ့

twe — To meet, find, encounter, come across

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kjaw-naw-do — We, us (first person plural, formal male)

အခဏ္ဏ

a-khan-na — Chapter, episode, section of a text

ဒီမှာ

di-hma — Here, at this place, right here

မဟိုတ်

ma-hout — Is not, am not, are not (negation of 'be')

နောက်ထပ်

nauk-htat — Another, additional, furthermore, one more

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two (numeral); to like, enjoy

နာရီ

na-yi — Hour, clock, watch, timepiece

အတွင်း

a-twin — Inside, within, during a period of time

တော့

daw — Sentence particle marking new situation or contrast

မည်

ma — Will, future tense marker, shall

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle, says that, known as

သလို

tha-lo — As if, like, similar to, as though