White nights, and other stories — Page 9

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; used to introduce a contrasting statement

ထို

hto — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant

အခိုက်အတန့်

a khite a tan — A brief moment; a short period of time

သည်

thi — Is/are; present tense grammatical marker in Burmese

ကုန်လွန်

kone lwan — To pass; to elapse, as time goes by

သွားပြီး

thwa: pyi: — Having gone; past action of going somewhere

နောက်

nauk — After; next; behind in time or space

တစ်နေ့

ta ne — One day; someday; refers to a single day

တွင်

twin — In; at; locative particle indicating location or time

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun, formal register

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting nouns or clauses

တူသော

tu thaw — Similar; resembling; being alike or the same

ကြည့်ကြည့်

kji kji — To look and look; to stare or gaze repeatedly

နေသော

ne thaw — That is staying; ongoing action relative clause marker

စိတ်နှစ်ဝမ်းကွဲ

seit hna wun kwe — Heartbroken; feeling deep emotional pain and sorrow

ဖြင့်

hpyin — By; with; instrumental particle indicating means or manner

ပြည့်နေသော

pyi ne thaw — Full of; filled with something continuously

မျက်နှာချက်

myat hna jet — Facial expression; the look on someone's face

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative particle indicating direct object

ဖြူဖျော့

hpyu hpyaw — Pale; light-colored; faint in complexion

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that/which modifying a noun

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — Face; the front part of a person's head

နူးညံ့

nu nyan — Gentle; soft; tender in manner or touch

ပြီး

pyi: — After completing; done; sequential action connector

တုန်လှုပ်

tone hlut — To tremble; to shake with emotion or fear

တတ်သော

tat thaw — Tends to; capable of; habitual action marker

လှုပ်ရှားမှု

hlut sha hmu — Movement; activity; the act of moving around

များ

mya: — Many; plural marker; indicates multiple nouns

နောင်တ

naung ta — Regret; remorse; feeling sorry for past actions

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; indicates belonging or relation

လက္ခဏာ

lat kha na — Sign; symptom; characteristic feature of something

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ပျံ့ပျောက်

pyan pyauk — To vanish; to drift away and disappear completely

သွားသော

thwa: thaw — That has gone; relative clause for completed departure

အာရုံဖြန်ဖြေမှု

a yone hpyan hpye hmu — Distraction; diversion of attention from something

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; regarding a purpose

ကြီးမားသော

kji: ma: thaw — Huge; great; enormous in size or degree

ဝေဒနာ

we da na — Pain; suffering; intense physical or emotional anguish

အရိပ်

a yit — Shadow; shade; a dark silhouette cast by something

တွေ့ကောင်း

twe kaung — Likely to meet; might encounter someone or something

တွေ့မည်

twe myi — Will meet; will encounter in the future

တစ်ချက်မျှသော

ta jet hmya thaw — Merely a moment; just a brief single instant

လှပမှု

hla ba hmu — Beauty; the quality of being attractive or lovely

မြန်မြန်ဆန်ဆန်

myan myan san san — Quickly; rapidly; in a fast manner

ပျောက်ကွယ်

pyauk kwe — To disappear; to vanish from sight completely

ထပ်မံ

htat man — Again; once more; additionally repeating an action

မပြန်

ma pyan — Not return; will not come back again

တော့မည်

taw myi — Will (do); future tense marker with emphasis

၎င်း

de ga: / di nga: — It; that thing; formal pronoun referring to previously mentioned

သင့်

thin — Your; second-person possessive; belonging to you

အပေါ်

a pau — On top of; above; regarding or concerning something

သစ္စာဖောက်

thit sa hpauk — To betray; to be disloyal or unfaithful

ဖော်မျှသော

hpaw hmya thaw — Shared with; companionable; done together with others

အချည်းနှီး

a chun: hni: — In vain; pointless; without result or purpose

နည်း

nyi: — Method; way; manner of doing something

တောက်ပြောင်ဝင်းလက်

tauk pyaung win let — Gleaming; sparkling brilliantly; shining with bright light

ကြောင်း

kyaung: — That; because; sentence-final particle linking clauses

ဝမ်းနည်း

wun nyi: — Sad; sorrowful; feeling unhappy or grief-stricken

သူမ

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

ချစ်ရန်

chit yan — To love; for the purpose of loving someone

အချိန်

a chein — Time; a specific period or moment in time

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist; there is not; absence of something

ခဲ့သော

khe thaw — That happened; past tense relative clause marker

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; causal particle showing reason

သို့သော်လည်း

thoe thaw le — Nevertheless; even so; stronger contrast than however

ကျွန်တော်

kjwa taw — I; me; first-person masculine pronoun, formal

ည

nya — Night; the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise

နေ့

ne — Day; daytime; a unit of time lasting 24 hours

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle for comparison

ပို

po — More; excessively; comparative degree intensifier

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; fine; excellent in quality or character

သေးသည်

the thi — Still; yet; indicates continuing state or smallness

ဖြစ်ပျက်

hpyit pyat — To happen; to occur; an event taking place

ခဲ့သည်

khe thi — Did; happened; past tense sentence-final marker

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or object marker particle

ဤသို့

i thoe — Like this; in this way; thus referring to current

တည်း

ti: — Only; alone; limiting particle emphasizing singularity

မြို့

myo — City; town; an urban settlement or municipality

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; intensifier for adjectives or adverbs

နောက်ကျ

nauk kja — Late; delayed; arriving after the expected time

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle indicating origin or source

ပြန်လာ

pyan la — To come back; to return to a previous place

ခဲ့ပြီး

khe pyi: — Having done; after completing a past action

တည်းခိုရာ

ti: kho ya — Place of lodging; accommodation; somewhere to stay

သွားနေ

thwa: ne — Going; in the process of going somewhere now

စဉ်

sin — While; during; a period of time or sequence

နာရီ

na yi — Hour; clock; a unit of time measuring sixty minutes

ဆယ်ချက်

hse jet — Ten o'clock; the tenth strike of a clock

တီးနေ

ti: ne — Striking; chiming; a clock or bell ringing continuously

ပြီ

pyi — Already; done; completion particle at sentence end

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit thi — Is; it is; copula indicating identity or existence

လမ်း

lan: — Road; street; path for traveling or walking

တူးမြောင်း

tu myaung: — Canal; ditch; an artificial water channel

ကမ်းနား

kan na: — Riverside; bank; the edge beside water

တစ်လျှောက်

ta hljauk — Along; throughout; the whole length of something

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit pyi: — Having become; after being; sequential copula connector

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people in general

တစ်ယောက်

ta yaut — One person; a single individual human being

မျှ

hmya — Only; just; as much as; limiting particle

တွေ့ရသည်

twe ya thi — To find; to come across; to encounter something

မဟုတ်

ma hote — Is not; negation of identity or existence

ပေ

pe — Sentence-final particle indicating mild assertion or evidence

ဝေးလံ

we lan — Remote; far away; distant from the current location

နေရာ

ne ya — Place; location; a specific spot or area

နေထိုင်

ne htaing — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere habitually

မှန်

hman — Correct; true; right; expressing truth or accuracy

ပေသည်

pe thi — It seems; it appears; evidential or assertive particle

သီချင်းဆို

thi chin: hso — To sing a song; to perform vocal music

ရင်း

yin: — While doing; by means of; simultaneous action particle

လမ်းလျှောက်

lan: hljauk — To walk; to stroll along a path or road

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a bhe kyaung — Why; for what reason; asking the cause of something

ဆိုသော်

hso thaw — If one says; speaking of; introducing explanation or reason

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw shwin — Happy; joyful; feeling pleasure and delight

သောအခါ

thaw a kha — When; at the time that; temporal clause connector

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring back to the subject

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw shwin hmu — Happiness; joy; the state of feeling pleased

မျှဝေ

hmya we — To share; to divide and give to others equally

မည့်

myi — Future relative clause marker; that will happen

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu ngei chin: — Friend; close companion; a person known well

လည်း

le — Also; too; as well; additive particle in sentences

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit hswe — Friend; acquaintance; a person one is friendly with

မရှိသော

ma shi thaw — Without; lacking; that does not have or exist

သူ

thu — He; she; they; third-person pronoun general use

တိုင်း

taing — Every; all; each time; distributive particle

ကဲ့သို့

ke thoe — Like; as; in the same manner as something

အမြဲတမ်း

a hmye dan: — Always; forever; constantly without exception or end

တီးတိုး

ti: to: — Softly; quietly; in a low murmuring or gentle manner

နေတတ်သော

ne tat thaw — Tends to stay; habitually remains in a state

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw lin — To hope; to expect; to anticipate something desired

မထားသော

ma hta: thaw — Not kept; not held; without placing or maintaining

စွန့်စားမှု

hsone sa: hmu — Risk; adventure; the act of taking a chance

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item or occurrence

ရုတ်တရက်

yote ta yet — Suddenly; all at once; unexpectedly without warning

ကျွန်တော့်

kjwa taw — My; mine; first-person masculine possessive pronoun

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; directional particle for individuals

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk shi — To arrive; to reach; to be present at a place

လာသည်

la thi — Comes; arrived; verb of coming toward the speaker

လက်ရန်းတံ

let yan tan — Handrail; railing; a bar held for support or balance

မှီကာ

hmi ka — Leaning against; resting upon for support

တံ

tan — Rail; rod; a long bar or pole structure

တံတောင်ဆုပ်

tan taung hsote — Elbow; the joint in the middle of the arm

အမှီပြု

a hmi pyu — To rely on; to lean upon; to depend on something

သည့်

thi — Relative clause particle; that/which links to noun

အမျိုးသမီး

a myo tha mi: — Woman; female; an adult female person

တစ်ဦး

ta u: — One person; a single individual, formal counting word

ရပ်နေ

yat ne — Standing; remaining stationary; stopped and staying still

တူးဟပ်

tu hat — Reflected; mirrored; showing a reflection in water

ရေ

ye — Water; the clear liquid essential for life

အာရုံစူးစိုက်

a yone su soit — To focus; to concentrate attention on something intently

စွာ

hswa — With; in a manner; adverbial particle modifying verbs

ကြည့်နေ

kji ne — Looking; gazing; in the act of watching continuously

ဟန်

han — Appearance; manner; pose or demeanor of a person

ရှိသည်

shi thi — There is; exists; indicates presence or existence

လှပသော

hla ba thaw — Beautiful; pretty; attractive in appearance or quality

အဝါရောင်

a wa yaung — Yellow color; the bright warm color of gold

ဦးထုပ်

u htoat — Hat; cap; a head covering worn for fashion

သပ်ရပ်သော

thet yat thaw — Neat; tidy; well-groomed and smartly presented

အနက်ရောင်

a net yaung — Black color; the darkest color absorbing all light

ကြီးခြုံ

kji: chone — Large coat; overcoat; a big covering garment worn outside

သေးသေး

the: the: — Small; tiny; diminutive in size or degree

လေး

le: — Four; also a diminutive particle for endearment

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut hsin — To wear; to put on clothing or accessories

ထားသည်

hta: thi — Has placed; keeps; resultant state of putting something

မိန်းကလေး

mein ka le: — Girl; young female; a female child or young woman

အမည်းရောင်

a myi: yaung — Black color; dark-colored; referring to dark hue

ဆံပင်ရှင်

hsan bin shin — One with hair; referring to a person's hair owner

ဖြစ်မည်

hpyit myi — Will be; shall become; future tense copula

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; introduces reported speech

သေချာ

the cha — Certain; sure; definitely confirmed without doubt

တွေးမိ

twe mi — To realize; to think of; to suddenly think something