The Great Gatsby — Page 1

Vocabulary

ကြီးမြတ်သော

kyee myat thaw — Great, grand, or magnificent in quality

ရေးသားသူ

yay thaa thu — Author or writer of a text

အကြောင်းအရာ

a-kyaung a-ya — Subject matter or topic of something

စာရင်း

sa-yin — List, record, or inventory of items

အခန်း

a-khan — Chapter or room in a building

၁

tit — The numeral one (1)

၂

hnit — The numeral two (2)

၃

thone — The numeral three (3)

၄

lay — The numeral four (4)

၅

nga — The numeral five (5)

၆

chauk — The numeral six (6)

၇

khun-hnit — The numeral seven (7)

၈

shit — The numeral eight (8)

၉

ko — The numeral nine (9)

တစ်ဖန်

tit-hpan — Once again, another time

ထပ်မံ၍

htat-man-yway — Additionally, once more, furthermore

သို့

thoe — To, toward a direction or recipient

ထို့ကြောင့်

htoe-kyaung — Therefore, for that reason

ရွှေထုပ်ကို

shway-htoke-go — Golden hat (object marker attached)

ဆောင်းလော့

saung-law — Wear or put on (imperative form)

သူမ၏

thu-ma-yi — Her, belonging to her (possessive)

နှလုံးသားကို

hna-lone-tha-go — Heart (emotional sense, object marker)

ထိခိုက်နိုင်လျှင်

hti-kite-nine-shin — If able to touch or affect deeply

မြင့်မြင့်

myint-myint — High, lofty; used as intensifier

ခုန်တတ်လျှင်

khun-tat-shin — If able to jump or leap

သူမအတွက်လည်း

thu-ma-a-twet-leh — Also for her sake or benefit

ခုန်ပေးလော့

khun-pay-law — Jump for her (imperative command)

သူမ

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

အော်ဟစ်သည်တိုင်

aw-hit-thit-tine — Whenever she calls out or shouts

ချစ်သူ

chit-thu — Lover, beloved, or dear one

ကျွန်မ

chama — I, me (first person, female speaker)

သင့်ကို

thint-go — You (object form, direct address)

ရရှိရမည်

ya-shi-ya-myi — Must obtain, must have or acquire

ငယ်ရွယ်၍

ngay-yway-yway — Being young, in one's youth

အားနည်းချိန်ကာလများတွင်

ah-nee-chein-ka-la-mya-dwin — During times of weakness or vulnerability

ကျွန်တော်၏

kyawtaw-yi — My, belonging to me (male speaker)

ဖခင်သည်

hpa-khin-thit — Father (subject marker attached)

ကျွန်တော့်အား

kyawtaw-ah — To me, directed at me (male)

အကြံဉာဏ်

a-kyan-nyan — Advice, suggestion, or wise counsel

တချို့

ta-choe — Some, a few, certain ones

ပေးခဲ့ပြီး

pay-khay-pyi — Gave and then, having given

ထိုအချက်ကို

htoe-a-chet-go — That point or fact (object marker)

ကျွန်တော်

kyawtaw — I, me (first person, male speaker)

ယခုအချိန်ထိ

ya-khu-a-chein-hti — Until now, up to this moment

စိတ်ထဲတွင်

sate-htay-dwin — Within the mind or heart

ဆင်ခြင်နေဆဲ

sin-chin-nay-zay — Still reflecting or contemplating carefully

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit-thit — Is, am, are (to be verb)

မည်သူ့ကိုမဆို

myi-thu-go-ma-so — Whoever it may be, anyone

ဝေဖန်ချင်သည်ဟု

way-hpan-chin-thit-htu — Wanting to criticize or find fault

ခံစားရသည့်

khan-sa-ya-thit — That which is felt or experienced

အခါတိုင်း

a-kha-tine — Every time, whenever, on each occasion

ဟု

htu — Quotative particle meaning said or thought

သူသည်

thu-thit — He, him (subject marker attached)

ပြောခဲ့သည်

pyaw-khay-thit — Said, spoke (past tense)

ဤကမ္ဘာပေါ်ရှိ

i-kamba-paw-shi — Existing on this world or earth

လူတိုင်းသည်

lu-tine-thit — Every person, all people (subject)

သင်

thint — You (second person pronoun)

ရရှိခဲ့သော

ya-shi-khay-thaw — That which was received or obtained

အကျိုးကျေးဇူးများကို

a-kyo-kyay-zu-mya-go — Benefits and advantages (object marker)

မရရှိခဲ့ကြကြောင်း

ma-ya-shi-khay-kya-kyaung — Did not receive or obtain (reported)

သတိရပါ

thati-ya-ba — Remember, bear in mind (polite)

ထို့ထက်

htoe-htat — More than that, beyond that

မပြောတော့ချေ

ma-pyaw-taw-chay — Will say no more, stop speaking

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However, but, nevertheless

ကျွန်တော်တို့သည်

kyawtaw-doe-thit — We (male speaker inclusive, subject)

ဆိတ်ငြိမ်သောနည်းဖြင့်

set-nyein-thaw-nee-pfyin — In a quiet or silent manner

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myay-dan — Always, constantly, at all times

ထူးခြားစွာ

htu-cha-zwa — Remarkably, unusually, in a distinctive way

ဆက်သွယ်

set-thway — Connect, communicate, or get in touch

ပြောဆိုနေကြပြီး

pyaw-so-nay-kya-pyi — Are speaking and communicating together

ထိုထက်

htoe-htat — More than that, exceeding that amount

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many, a great deal, much

ပိုမို

po-mo — More, even more, to a greater degree

ဆိုလိုသည်ဟု

so-lo-thit-htu — Meaning to say, implying (quotative)

နားလည်ခဲ့သည်

na-leh-khay-thit — Understood, comprehended (past tense)

ထိုကြောင့်

htoe-kyaung — Therefore, because of that reason

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kyawtaw-thit — I (male speaker, subject marker)

စီရင်ချက်များ

si-yin-chet-mya — Judgments, verdicts, or decisions made

အားလုံးကို

ah-lone-go — All, everything (object marker attached)

ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားလေ့

sine-ngan-hta-lay — Tend to suspend or postpone habitually

ရှိပြီး

shi-pyi — There is, exists, having done already

ထိုအကျင့်သည်

htoe-a-kyin-thit — That habit or practice (subject marker)

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်

sate-win-sa-pfway — Interesting, worthy of curiosity

ကောင်းသော

kaung-thaw — Good, fine, positive in quality

သဘောသဘာဝ

tha-baw-tha-ba-wa — Nature, character, or temperament of someone

များစွာကို

mya-zwa-go — Many things or much (object marker)

ဖွင့်ပေးခဲ့သော်လည်း

pfwin-pay-khay-thaw-leh — Although it opened up or revealed

အတွေ့အကြုံရှိသော

a-tway-a-kyun-shi-thaw — Experienced, having life experience

ငြီးငွေ့ဖွယ်

nyee-ngway-pfway — Boring, tedious, worth being bored by

လူများ၏

lu-mya-yi — Of people, belonging to many people

သားကောင်လည်း

tha-kaung-leh — Also a victim or prey

ဖြစ်စေခဲ့သည်

pfyit-say-khay-thit — Caused to become, made something happen

ပုံမှန်မဟုတ်သော

pone-hman-ma-hote-thaw — Abnormal, unusual, not ordinary

စိတ်သည်

sate-thit — The mind or heart (subject marker)

ဤဂုဏ်အင်္ဂါရပ်ကို

i-gun-inga-yat-go — This quality or characteristic (object marker)

ပုံမှန်

pone-hman — Normal, ordinary, regular, standard

လူတစ်ဦးတွင်

lu-tit-u-dwin — In or within one person

ပေါ်ပေါက်လာသည့်

paw-pauk-la-thit — That which appears or emerges in someone

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, or when something occurs

လျင်မြန်စွာ

lyin-myan-zwa — Quickly, swiftly, with speed

သိရှိ၍

thi-shi-yway — Knowing and then, having recognized

ကပ်ပါလာ

kat-pa-la — Come along attached, tag along closely

တတ်သည်

tat-thit — Tend to, be able to, habitually do

ကောလိပ်တွင်

kaw-lit-dwin — At or in college

ရိုင်းပျ၍

rine-pya-yway — Being rude or uncivilized and then

မသိသော

ma-thi-thaw — Not knowing, unknown, ignorant of

လျှို့ဝှက်သော

shote-hwaet-thaw — Secret, hidden, mysterious in nature

ဝေဒနာများကို

way-da-na-mya-go — Pains, sufferings, or sorrows (object)

သိထားသောကြောင့်

thi-hta-thaw-kyaung — Because of knowing or being aware

နိုင်ငံရေးသမားဟု

nine-ngan-yay-tha-ma-htu — As a politician (quotative marker)

မတရား

ma-ta-ya — Unjust, unfair, wrongful, illegal

စွပ်စွဲခြင်း

swut-sweh-chin — Accusation, false allegation or charge

ခံခဲ့ရသည်

khan-khay-ya-thit — Endured, suffered, received (past tense)