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English Vocabulary for Burmese Students

English Vocabulary for Burmese Students

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Set 1: Basic Everyday Words ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Hello A greeting မင်္ဂလာပါ Hello, how are you today?
Goodbye A farewell ဘိုင်ဘိုင်း Goodbye, see you tomorrow!
Thank you Expression of gratitude ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ် Thank you for your help.
Please Polite request ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ Please pass me the book.
Yes Affirmative response ဟုတ်ကဲ့ Yes, I understand.
No Negative response မဟုတ်ဘူး No, I don’t know.
Water Clear liquid ရေ I drink water every day.
Food Something to eat အစားအစာ My favorite food is rice.
House Place to live အိမ် My house is near the school.
School Place of learning ကျောင်း I go to school every morning.
Teacher Person who teaches ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ Our teacher is very kind.
Student Person who learns ကျောင်းသား၊ ကျောင်းသူ I am a good student.
Book Written work စာအုပ် I read a book every night.
Pen Writing instrument ဘောပင် Can I borrow your pen?
Friend Close companion သူငယ်ချင်း My friend helps me with homework.
Family Parents and relatives မိသားစု I love my family very much.
Time Measurement of duration အချိန် What time is it now?
Day 24-hour period နေ့ Today is a beautiful day.
Night Time of darkness ည I sleep at night.
Morning Early part of day မနက် I wake up early in the morning.
Afternoon Time after noon မွန်းလွဲ We have lunch in the afternoon.
Evening Late part of day ညနေ I study in the evening.
Today Present day ယနေ့ Today is Monday.
Tomorrow Day after today မနက်ဖြန် We have a test tomorrow.
Yesterday Day before today မနေ့က Yesterday was Sunday.
Now At the present time ယခု I am busy now.
Later At a time in the future နောက်မှ See you later!
Here In this place ဒီမှာ Come here, please.
There In that place ဟိုမှာ My bag is over there.
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Set 2: Common Verbs ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Go Move from one place to another သွား I go to school every day.
Come Move toward the speaker လာ Please come here.
Eat Consume food စား I eat rice for lunch.
Drink Consume liquid သောက် I drink tea in the morning.
Sleep Rest in a state of unconsciousness အိပ် I sleep at 10 pm.
Wake Stop sleeping နိုး I wake up at 6 am.
Read Look at and understand written words ဖတ် I read books every evening.
Write Mark letters or words ရေး Please write your name here.
Speak Say something ပြော I speak English and Burmese.
Listen Give attention to sound နား ထောင် Listen to the teacher carefully.
Learn Gain knowledge လေ့လာ I learn new words every day.
Teach Impart knowledge သင်ပေး My mother teaches me English.
Work Do a job အလုပ် လုပ် My father works in an office.
Play Engage in activity for enjoyment ကစား Children play in the park.
Run Move quickly on foot ပြေး I run every morning for exercise.
Walk Move at a regular pace on foot လမ်း လျှောက် We walk to school together.
Stand Be in an upright position ရပ် Please stand up when the teacher comes.
Sit Be in a resting position ထိုင် Sit down, please.
Give Transfer something to someone ပေး Please give me the book.
Take Lay hold of something ယူ Take your umbrella, it’s raining.
Buy Obtain in exchange for payment ဝယ် I buy books from the shop.
Sell Give in exchange for money ရောင်း My mother sells vegetables at the market.
Open Move to allow access ဖွင့် Open your book to page 10.
Close Move to block access ပိတ် Close the door, please.
Start Begin something စတင် We start class at 9 am.
Stop Come to an end ရပ် Stop talking, please.
Clean Make something free of dirt သန့်ရှင်း I clean my room every Sunday.
Wash Clean with water ဆေး Wash your hands before eating.
Cook Prepare food by heating ချက် My mother cooks delicious food.
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Set 3: Family Members ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Father Male parent ဖခင် My father is a teacher.
Mother Female parent မိခင် My mother cooks delicious food.
Parents Mother and father မိဘ My parents love me very much.
Son Male child သား They have one son and one daughter.
Daughter Female child သမီး Their daughter is very smart.
Brother Male sibling အစ်ကို၊ ညီ I have one younger brother.
Sister Female sibling အစ်မ၊ ညီမ My sister helps me with homework.
Grandfather Father of one’s parent အဖိုး My grandfather tells interesting stories.
Grandmother Mother of one’s parent အဖွား My grandmother makes the best cookies.
Uncle Brother of one’s parent ဦးလေး၊ ဘကြီး My uncle lives in Yangon.
Aunt Sister of one’s parent ဒေါ်လေး၊ ဘဒေး My aunt gives me presents on my birthday.
Cousin Child of one’s uncle or aunt သမီးညီမ၊ သားညီ I play with my cousins on weekends.
Nephew Son of one’s sibling သားအစ်ကို၊ သားညီ My nephew is three years old.
Niece Daughter of one’s sibling သမီးအစ်မ၊ သမီးညီမ My niece started school this year.
Husband Married man ခင်ပွန်း Her husband works at a bank.
Wife Married woman ဇနီး My wife is a doctor.
Children Sons and daughters ကလေးများ They have two children.
Baby Very young child ကလေး The baby is sleeping.
Twin One of two children born at the same time အမွှာ My cousins are twins.
Relative Person connected by blood or marriage ဆွေမျိုး We visit relatives during holidays.
Family Group of related people မိသားစု My family is very important to me.
Grandson Son of one’s child မြေး (သား) My grandfather plays with his grandson.
Granddaughter Daughter of one’s child မြေး (သမီး) My grandmother teaches her granddaughter to cook.
Father-in-law Father of one’s spouse ယောက်ဖ My father-in-law is very kind.
Mother-in-law Mother of one’s spouse ယောက်မ My mother-in-law helps take care of our children.
Son-in-law Husband of one’s daughter သမက် Their son-in-law is a businessman.
Daughter-in-law Wife of one’s son ခယ်မ Our daughter-in-law is a teacher.
Stepfather Husband of one’s mother but not biological father မိထွေးဖ My stepfather is very supportive.
Stepmother Wife of one’s father but not biological mother ဖထွေးမ My stepmother helps me with my studies.
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Set 4: Food and Drinks ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Rice Staple food grain ထမင်း We eat rice with every meal.
Noodles Long thin strips of dough ခေါက်ဆွဲ I like eating noodles for breakfast.
Bread Baked food made of flour ပေါင်မုန့် I eat bread with jam in the morning.
Egg Oval reproductive body laid by birds ကြက်ဥ I eat two boiled eggs for breakfast.
Meat Animal flesh as food အသား My favorite meat is chicken.
Fish Aquatic animal used as food ငါး We eat fish every Friday.
Chicken Domestic fowl as food ကြက်သား Fried chicken is my favorite food.
Pork Meat from a pig ဝက်သား Some people don’t eat pork.
Beef Meat from a cow အမဲသား Beef is expensive in our country.
Vegetable Plant or part of plant used as food ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက် Eat more vegetables for good health.
Fruit Sweet product of a tree or plant သစ်သီး I eat fruit after meals.
Apple Round fruit with red or green skin ပန်းသီး An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Banana Long curved yellow fruit ငှက်ပျောသီး Bananas are rich in potassium.
Orange Round citrus fruit လိမ္မော်သီး Oranges are rich in vitamin C.
Mango Tropical stone fruit သရက်သီး Mango is my favorite fruit.
Watermelon Large juicy fruit with red flesh ဖရဲသီး We eat watermelon in summer.
Pineapple Tropical fruit with prickly skin နာနတ်သီး Pineapple juice is very refreshing.
Potato Starchy tuber vegetable အာလူး I like fried potatoes.
Tomato Red edible berry ခရမ်းချဉ်သီး Tomatoes are used in many dishes.
Onion Bulb vegetable with strong flavor ကြက်သွန်နီ Onions make me cry when I cut them.
Garlic Pungent bulb used in cooking ကြက်သွန်ဖြူ Garlic is good for health.
Chili Hot pepper ငရုတ်သီး Burmese food often uses chili.
Salt White crystalline substance used for seasoning ဆား Add a little salt to the soup.
Sugar Sweet crystalline substance သကြား I put one spoon of sugar in my tea.
Oil Fatty liquid used in cooking ဆီ We cook with vegetable oil.
Water Clear liquid essential for life ရေ Drink at least 8 glasses of water daily.
Tea Hot drink made from leaves လက်ဖက်ရည် We drink tea in the morning.
Coffee Hot drink made from beans ကော်ဖီ My father drinks coffee every morning.
Milk White liquid from mammals နို့ Children should drink milk for strong bones.
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Set 5: Clothing ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Shirt Garment for upper body အင်္ကျီ I wear a white shirt to school.
T-shirt Short-sleeved casual top တီရှပ် I wear a T-shirt at home.
Pants Garment for lower body ဘောင်းဘီ My school pants are green.
Jeans Casual trousers made of denim ဂျင်း I wear jeans on weekends.
Dress One-piece garment for women အကျီး My sister wears a dress to parties.
Skirt Garment hanging from waist စကတ် Girls wear skirts to school.
Jacket Outer garment for upper body ဂျာကင် I wear a jacket in cold weather.
Coat Outer garment with sleeves ကုတ် My winter coat is very warm.
Sweater Knitted garment for warmth ဆွယ်တာ I wear a sweater in December.
Shoes Footwear covering the foot ဖိနပ် I polish my shoes every morning.
Socks Garment for feet ခြေအိတ် I wear white socks to school.
Hat Head covering ဦးထုပ် Wear a hat to protect from the sun.
Cap Soft flat hat with peak ဦးထုပ် (ဘေ့စ်ဘောဦးထုပ်) My brother wears a baseball cap.
Scarf Length of fabric worn around neck လည်စီး My mother wears a silk scarf.
Gloves Covering for hands လက်အိတ် I wear gloves when it’s very cold.
Belt Strip of leather worn around waist ခါးပတ် My father wears a leather belt.
Tie Strip of fabric worn around neck လည်ဆွဲ My teacher wears a tie to school.
Uniform Standardized outfit ယူနီဖောင်း Students must wear school uniform.
Pajamas Sleeping clothes ညဝတ် I change into pajamas before bed.
Raincoat Waterproof coat မိုးကာ I wear a raincoat in the rainy season.
Sandals Open footwear သဲဖိနပ် I wear sandals at home.
Boots Footwear covering ankle ဘွတ်ဖိနပ် I wear boots when it rains.
Shorts Short trousers ဘောင်းဘီတို I wear shorts when playing sports.
Underwear Clothing worn under other clothes အတွင်းခံ Change your underwear every day.
Blouse Women’s upper garment အကျီး My mother wears a blouse to work.
Suit Set of matching jacket and trousers စုံတွဲ My father wears a suit to the office.
Handkerchief Small cloth for personal use လက်ကိုင်ပုဝါ Always carry a clean handkerchief.
Watch Timepiece worn on wrist နာရီ My watch helps me be on time.
Glasses Spectacles for eyes မျက်မှန် I wear glasses to read books.
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Set 6: Colors ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Red Color of blood နီ The stop sign is red.
Blue Color of the sky ပြာ My favorite shirt is blue.
Green Color of grass အစိမ်း Leaves are green in spring.
Yellow Color of the sun အဝါ Bananas are yellow when ripe.
Black Darkest color အနက် I have black hair.
White Color of milk အဖြူ We wear white shirts to school.
Orange Color between red and yellow လိမ္မော် Oranges are orange in color.
Purple Color between red and blue ခရမ်း Eggplants are purple.
Pink Pale red color ပန်း My sister likes pink dresses.
Brown Color of earth အညို Chocolate is brown.
Gray Color between black and white မီးခိုး Elephants are gray.
Gold Yellowish metallic color ရွှေ The medal was gold.
Silver Grayish metallic color ငွေ My watch has a silver band.
Light Pale shade of a color ဖျော့ She wore a light blue dress.
Dark Deep shade of a color ရင့် He prefers dark green.
Bright Strong and vivid color တောက်ပ The flowers were bright yellow.
Colorful Having many colors ရောင်စုံ The rainbow is colorful.
Transparent Allowing light to pass through ဖောက်ထွင်း Glass is transparent.
Opaque Not transparent မဖောက်ထွင်း The wall is opaque.
Shiny Reflecting light တောက်ပ The new car was very shiny.
Dull Not bright or shiny မှိန် The old paint looks dull.
Rainbow Multicolored arc in sky သက်တံ We saw a rainbow after the rain.
Color Property possessed by an object အရောင် What color is your bag?
Shade Degree of darkness of a color အရောင် I like this shade of blue.
Tone Quality of a color အရောင် The room was painted in warm tones.
Pale Light in color ဖျော့ Her face turned pale.
Vivid Very bright color တောက်ပ The painting had vivid colors.
Neon Very bright fluorescent color နီယွန် The sign was neon pink.
Pastel Soft and light color ပါစတယ် She likes pastel colors.
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Set 7: Numbers ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
One The number 1 တစ် I have one brother.
Two The number 2 နှစ် There are two apples on the table.
Three The number 3 သုံး My family has three members.
Four The number 4 လေး A car has four wheels.
Five The number 5 ငါး I have five fingers on each hand.
Six The number 6 ခြောက် There are six eggs in the basket.
Seven The number 7 ခုနှစ် There are seven days in a week.
Eight The number 8 ရှစ် An octopus has eight legs.
Nine The number 9 ကိုး My cat had nine kittens.
Ten The number 10 တစ်ဆယ် I can count to ten in English.
Eleven The number 11 တစ်ဆယ့်တစ် There are eleven players in a football team.
Twelve The number 12 တစ်ဆယ့်နှစ် A clock has twelve numbers.
Thirteen The number 13 တစ်ဆယ့်သုံး Friday the thirteenth is considered unlucky.
Fourteen The number 14 တစ်ဆယ့်လေး Valentine’s Day is February fourteenth.
Fifteen The number 15 တစ်ဆယ့်ငါး I will be fifteen years old next month.
Sixteen The number 16 တစ်ဆယ့်ခြောက် In some countries, you can drive at sixteen.
Seventeen The number 17 တစ်ဆယ့်ခုနှစ် My brother is seventeen years old.
Eighteen The number 18 တစ်ဆယ့်ရှစ် You become an adult at eighteen.
Nineteen The number 19 တစ်ဆယ့်ကိုး My sister is nineteen years old.
Twenty The number 20 နှစ်ဆယ် There are twenty students in our class.
Thirty The number 30 သုံးဆယ် There are thirty days in April.
Forty The number 40 လေးဆယ် The temperature was forty degrees.
Fifty The number 50 ငါးဆယ် My grandmother is fifty years old.
Sixty The number 60 ခြောက်ဆယ် There are sixty seconds in a minute.
Seventy The number 70 ခုနှစ်ဆယ် My grandfather is seventy years old.
Eighty The number 80 ရှစ်ဆယ် The old man was over eighty.
Ninety The number 90 ကိုးဆယ် My great-grandmother lived to ninety.
Hundred The number 100 တစ်ရာ There are one hundred cents in a dollar.
Thousand The number 1,000 တစ်ထောင် The book has over a thousand pages.
Million The number 1,000,000 တစ်သန်း Yangon has over five million people.
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Set 8: Days and Months ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Monday First day of the week တနင်္လာ We have English class on Monday.
Tuesday Second day of the week အင်္ဂါ The market is closed on Tuesday.
Wednesday Third day of the week ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး We have a test every Wednesday.
Thursday Fourth day of the week ကြာသပတေး I visit my grandparents on Thursday.
Friday Fifth day of the week သောကြာ Friday is my favorite day.
Saturday Sixth day of the week စနေ We don’t have school on Saturday.
Sunday Seventh day of the week တနင်္ဂနွေ We go to church on Sunday.
Week Seven-day period တစ်ပတ် There are seven days in a week.
Weekday Day from Monday to Friday အလုပ်ရက်များ I work on weekdays.
Weekend Saturday and Sunday အားလပ်ရက် I relax on the weekend.
Today Present day ယနေ့ Today is my birthday.
Tomorrow Day after today မနက်ဖြန် We have a test tomorrow.
Yesterday Day before today မနေ့က Yesterday was a holiday.
Day 24-hour period နေ့ There are 24 hours in a day.
Night Time of darkness ည I sleep at night.
Morning Early part of the day မနက် I wake up early in the morning.
Afternoon Time after noon မွန်းလွဲ We have lunch in the afternoon.
Evening Late part of the day ညနေ I study in the evening.
January First month of the year ဇန်နဝါရီ New Year’s Day is January first.
February Second month of the year ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ February has 28 or 29 days.
March Third month of the year မတ် School starts in March.
April Fourth month of the year ဧပြီ Thingyan festival is in April.
May Fifth month of the year မေ May is a hot month in Myanmar.
June Sixth month of the year ဇွန် The rainy season starts in June.
July Seventh month of the year ဇူလိုင် July is the middle of the year.
August Eighth month of the year ဩဂုတ် School reopens in August.
September Ninth month of the year စက်တင်ဘာ September has thirty days.
October Tenth month of the year အောက်တိုဘာ October is a cool month.
November Eleventh month of the year နိုဝင်ဘာ November has thirty days.
December Twelfth month of the year ဒီဇင်ဘာ Christmas is in December.
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Set 9: Body Parts ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Head Upper part of the body ခေါင်း I have a headache.
Hair Threadlike strands on head ဆံပင်း My hair is black.
Face Front part of head မျက်နှာ Wash your face every morning.
Eye Organ of sight မျက်လုံး I have two eyes.
Ear Organ of hearing နား I clean my ears carefully.
Nose Organ of smell နှာခေါင်း My nose is running.
Mouth Opening for eating and speaking ပါး Open your mouth and say “ah”.
Tooth Hard structure in mouth သွား Brush your teeth twice a day.
Lip Fleshy part around mouth နှုတ်ခမ်း My lips are dry.
Tongue Muscular organ in mouth လျှာ The tongue helps us taste food.
Neck Part connecting head to body လည်ပင်း My neck hurts from looking down.
Shoulder Joint connecting arm to body ပခုံး He carried the bag on his shoulder.
Arm Upper limb လက် I broke my arm last year.
Elbow Joint in middle of arm တံတောင် I hit my elbow on the table.
Hand End part of arm လက် Wash your hands before eating.
Finger Digits on hand လက်ချောင်း I have five fingers on each hand.
Chest Front part of body between neck and abdomen ရင် I have pain in my chest.
Back Rear surface of body နောက် My back hurts from sitting too long.
Stomach Organ for digesting food ဗိုက် My stomach is full.
Leg Lower limb ခြေ I walk to school on my legs.
Knee Joint in middle of leg ဒူး I fell and hurt my knee.
Foot End part of leg ခြေထောက် My feet hurt from walking.
Toe Digits on foot ခြေချောင်း I have five toes on each foot.
Skin Outer covering of body အရေပြား My skin is sensitive to sunlight.
Blood Red liquid in body သွေး The cut made blood come out.
Bone Hard part inside body အရိုး Calcium makes bones strong.
Heart Organ that pumps blood နှလုံး My heart beats fast when I run.
Lung Organ for breathing အဆုတ် Smoking damages your lungs.
Brain Organ of thought ဦးနှောက် The brain controls the body.
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Set 10: Weather ▶
Word English Meaning Burmese Meaning Example Sentence
Weather State of atmosphere ရာသီဥတု The weather is nice today.
Sun Star that gives light and heat နေ The sun rises in the east.
Rain Water falling from clouds မိုး It rains a lot in the rainy season.
Cloud Visible mass of water vapor မိုးတိမ် There are many clouds in the sky.
Wind Moving air လေ The wind is strong today.
Storm Violent weather disturbance မုန်တိုင်း The storm damaged many houses.
Thunder Sound from lightning မိုးကြိုး The thunder was very loud.
Lightning Electric flash in sky လျှပ်စီး Lightning flashed across the sky.
Snow Frozen rain ဆီးနှင်း It doesn’t snow in Myanmar.
Ice Frozen water ရေခဲ I put ice in my drink.
Hot High temperature ပူ April is the hottest month.
Cold Low temperature အေး December is cold in Myanmar.
Warm Moderately hot နွေး The tea is warm, not hot.
Cool Moderately cold အေး The evening is cool after rain.
Dry Without moisture ခြောက် The air is dry in winter.
Wet Covered with liquid စို My clothes got wet in the rain.
Humid Containing moisture စို The air is humid in the rainy season.
Temperature Degree of heat or cold အပူချိန် The temperature is 30°C today.
Season Division of the year ရာသီ Myanmar has three seasons.
Summer Hottest season နွေရာသီ Summer is from March to May.
Rainy season Wet season မိုးရာသီ The rainy season starts in June.
Winter Coldest season ဆောင်းရာသီ Winter is from November to February.
Flood Overflow of water ရေကြီး The flood damaged many crops.
Drought Long period without rain မိုးခေါင် The drought made farming difficult.
Forecast Prediction of weather ခန့်မှန်း The weather forecast says it will rain.
Umbrella Device for rain protection ထီး Take an umbrella, it might rain.
Raincoat Waterproof coat မိုးကာ I wear a raincoat in heavy rain.
Fog Thick cloud near ground မြူ The fog made driving dangerous.
Breeze Gentle wind လေညင်း The breeze feels nice on a hot day.
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