thick, theft| Consonants with an added ‘y’ sound. | |
| by | No English equivalent. The closest sound is the initial sound of the words beauty, bureau, Buchanan. The b and the y are pronounced as one sound. |
| gy | j sound as in jeans, jacket, jaw |
| ky | No English equivalent. The closest sound is the initial sound of the words tuition, cue, Kyoto. The k and the y are pronounced as one sound. |
| my | Like my in Myanmar. No English equivalent. The closest sound is the initial sound of the words muse, music, mule. The m and the y are pronounced as one sound. |
| ny | No English equivalent. The closest sound is the initial sound of the words ‘new, nuclear, nuisance’ in a British accent. The n and y are pronounced as one sound. |
| py | No English equivalent. The closest sound is the py sound in the words pew, computer, puberty. The p and the y are pronounced as one sound. |
| Vowel sounds | |
| a- | Like a as in ‘ago.’ (This sound is called schwa in phonetics.) |
| a | The shortened sound of art without the final consonant. |
| ar | Sounds like the interjection uh, when you are not sure what to say. |
| arr | Rhymes with car, bar, star. |
| eet | The same sound as ee in keep, feet, cheap |
| i | The same sound as y in city. |
| ee | The same sound as ee in see, bee, fee. |
| ook | The same sound as oo in food, shoot, loop. |
| u | The same sound as u in university or you? with a rising, surprised tone. |
| oo | The same sound as oo in zoo, do, fool |
| ayt | The same sound as a in maze, ace, base. |
| ay | Pronounced like the unstressed word say in Oh say can you see as in the American national anthem, or like may in May I? |
| ayy | Like the ay sound in way, stay, lay but with more stress. |
| aet | Like the a sound in apple, stopping the sound at the back of the throat. |
| ae | Like sal in salmon. |
| ell | The same sound as ell in sell, tell, bell. |
| awt | The same sound as o in hot, lot, got. |
| aw | The same sound as au in Australia. |
| aww | The same sound as aw in saw, mall, raw. |
| ant | The same sound as u in hunt, punch. |
| an | The same sound as un as in uncover, unfriend. |
| ann | Rhymes with run, bun, sun. |
| oht | The same sound as o in both, ghost, most. |
| o | Sounds like oh in the exclamation uh-oh! |
| ohh | The same sound as o in go, no, so, oh. |
| aint | The same sound as i in pint, ninth. |
| ai | Like the y sound in the unstressed word my in the phrase my car (where the stress is on car). |
| aii | The same as the i sound in eye, time, kind. |
| eaint | The same sound as ai in paint, saint. |
| eain | The same sound as ai or a in main, same, tame with rising intonation. |
| eainn | The same sound as a or ai in shame, lame, rain |
| aungt | The same sound as oun in mount, count. |
| aung | The same sound as ao in Mao Zedong. |
| aungg | Rhymes with cow, down, pound. |
| ownt | The same sound as on’t in won’t, don’t |
| own | The same sound as one in zone, pronounced with the rising tone. |
| ownn | The same sound as one in bone, phone, lone. |
| ont | The same sound as on in bronze. |
| on | Sounds like the English word on, said with a surprised tone. |
| onn | The same sound as oon in moon, soon, loom. |
| et | The same sound as et in bet, met, set. |
| at | Like the u sound in cup, mug, but. |
| ate | Like the vowel sound in the words bake, state, eight, stopping the final consonant sound at the back of the throat. |
| ite | Like the vowel sound in the words bite, kite, night, stopping the final consonant sound at the back of the throat. |
| ut | Like the vowel sound in the words put, good, bush, stopping the final consonant sound at the back of the throat. |
BURMESE–ENGLISH
A
a ADJ အ 1 permanently or temporarily unable to speak 2 stupid; dumb
a-ayy N အေအး 1 cold drink 2 coldness
aba N အဘ 1 old uncle 2 way of addressing someone with high position in the government or military 3 (slang) powerful person, usually who had close connection with the former military government
achaint N အခ်ိဳင့္ dent; dimple; hollow
achann N အျခမ္း side; half
acharr N အျခား other; another; something else
achat N အခ်ပ္ slice; sheet; layer
achaung ADV အေခ်ာင္ without exerting effort
achaungg N အေခ်ာင္း rod; stick; rod-like thing
achaung thamarr N အေခ်ာင္သမား shirker; opportunist
achaww N အေခ်ာ final draft
achaww that V အေခ်ာသပ္ 1 finalize 2 smooth; polish
achay anay N အေျခအေန situation; condition
achay gan ADJ အေျခခံ basic; primary
achay kya V အေျခက် be settled
achay site V အေျခစိုက္ base at a place
acheain N အခ်ိန္ time
acheain akhar N အခ်ိန္အခါ time; occasion
acheain baii N အခ်ိန္ပိုင္း part-time
acheain bo N အခ်ိန္ပို overtime
acheain byayt ADJ အခ်ိန္ျပည့္ full-time
acheain gite V အခ်ိန္ကိုက္ be right on time
acheain hman ADJ အခ်ိန္မွန္ punctual
acheain kown V အခ်ိန္ကုန္ waste time
