Won from the Waves — Page 1

Vocabulary

အင်္ဂလန်မှ

in-ga-lan hma — From England; originating in England.

မှ

hma — From; indicating source or origin.

ထုတ်လုပ်သည်။

htoat-loat-thì — To produce or manufacture something.

လှိုင်းများမှ

hlain-myá hma — From the waves; from surging forces.

နိုင်ခဲ့သော၊

naing-khè-thò — Was able to; managed to succeed in something.

ရေးသည်။

yé-thì — To write; the act of writing something.

ဤ

i — This; a formal demonstrative pronoun.

စာအုပ်

sa-oat — A book; a bound written publication.

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present tense verb particle.

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; to a great degree.

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung-mwan — Good and excellent; of high quality.

သော

thò — Relative clause marker; that which is.

တစ်အုပ်

tit-oat — One book; a single volume or copy.

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — Being; having become; and so it is.

၏

è — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'.

အကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaung-zoun — The best; the finest among all options.

စာအုပ်များ

sa-oat-myá — Books; plural of book.

ထဲမှ

htè hma — From among; out of a group or collection.

ဖြစ်သည်၊

hpyit-thì — Is; to be; exists as something.

သူ၏

thu-è — His; belonging to him.

ဘဝ

ba-wa — Life; one's existence or lifetime.

အဆုံး

a-zoun — The end; the conclusion of something.

တွင်

twìn — In; at; within a place or time.

ရေးသား

yé-thá — To write; to compose a written work.

ထုတ်ဝေ

htoat-wè — To publish; to distribute a written work.

ခဲ့ပြီး

khè-pyi — Has already done; past completion marker.

ဖတ်ရှု

hpat-shu — To read; to peruse written material.

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing.

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; nice; positive in quality.

မည်

mì — Future tense particle; will; shall.

ဖြစ်သည်။

hpyit-thì — It is; to be; final statement of fact.

ဟုတ်

hoat — Yes; correct; that is right.

ပါ

pa — Polite particle added for politeness or emphasis.

တယ်၊

tè — Informal sentence-final particle; casual assertion.

ပုံမှန်

pon-hman — Regular; normal; usual routine or pattern.

ရေကူး

yè-ku — Swimming; the act of swimming in water.

လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း

lè-jin-khan — Exercise; physical training or practice routine.

များ

myá — Many; plural marker for nouns.

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is.

သော်လည်း၊

thò-lè — However; although; despite that fact.

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Additionally; furthermore; another one more.

ဖြစ်ပျက်

hpyit-pyat — To happen; to occur; events taking place.

နေသော

nè-thò — That is happening; currently ongoing action.

အရာများ

a-ya-myá — Things; matters; various objects or affairs.

များပြား

myá-pyá — Numerous; plentiful; many in great quantity.

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result.

နောက်

nout — Next; after; behind in sequence.

စာမျက်နှာ

sa-myat-hna — Page; a single page of a book.

ကို

ko — Object marker; towards; direct object particle.

အမြဲ

a-myè — Always; constantly; at all times.

လှန်ကာ

hlan-ga — Turning over; flipping pages repeatedly.

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking for identity.

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to happen.

ကြည့်

kyi — To look; to see; to observe something.

ချင်

jin — Want to; desire to do something.

နေ

nè — To stay; continuous aspect particle; living.