The Great Gatsby — Page 2

Vocabulary

ယုံကြည်မှု

youn kji hmu — Trust or belief in someone or something

များစွာ

mya zwa — A great many; very numerous

သည်

thì — Grammatical particle marking subject or verb

မတောင်းဆိုဘဲ

ma taung zo bè — Without asking or requesting anything

ရောက်လာသည်များ

yout la thì mya — Things or people that have arrived

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit thì — Is; exists; to be something

တစ်စုံ

tit soon — A pair or a set of something

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; someone

၏

ì — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

နှလုံးသား

hnaloun thá — Heart; the seat of emotions

ထဲမှ

htè hmá — From inside; out of something

ထုတ်ဖော်ချက်

htoat hpaw jèt — A revelation or disclosure of something

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item

အလျောင်

a lyaung — Freely; without constraint or restraint

တကာ

ta ga — All; every; throughout everything

ထွက်ပေါ်လာ

htwèt paw la — To emerge; come out into view

တော့မည်

taw mì — Will; future tense marker particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

သိသာ

thi tha — Obvious; noticeable; clearly apparent

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle modifying nouns

လက္ခဏာ

lèt hka na — Sign; symptom; characteristic feature

တစ်ရပ်

tit yat — One instance; a single occurrence

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using

ကျွန်တော်

kjwa daw — I; first-person pronoun used by males

သဘောပေါက်

tha baw pout — To understand; to grasp the meaning

မိသော

mi thaw — Caught; grasped; realized involuntarily

အခါ

a kha — Time; occasion; when something happens

မကြာခဏ

ma kja hka na — Often; frequently; on many occasions

အိပ်ချင်သော

eit jín thaw — Feeling sleepy; wanting to sleep

ယောင်

yaung — To pretend; feign; act as if

ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်

saung khè thì — Carried; brought; conveyed something along

အာရုံပျံ့

a youn pyán — Distracted; attention scattered or wandering

နေသော

nè thaw — Living; staying; being in a state

သို့မဟုတ်

thó ma hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

ရန်လို

yan lo — Hostile; aggressive; seeking conflict

ပေါ့ပေါ့

paw paw — Lightly; casually; without seriousness

တန်တန်

tan tan — Moderately; appropriately; in proportion

အမူအရာများ

a mu a ya mya — Behaviors; mannerisms; gestures exhibited

ပြ

pya — To show; display; demonstrate something

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — Past tense marker; did; has done

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a bè kyaung — Why; for what reason

ဆိုသော်

so thaw — Because; if one says; namely

လူငယ်

lu ngè — Young person; youth; young adult

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

ဆိုင်ရာ

saing ya — Related to; concerning; pertaining to

အနည်းဆုံး

a ní soon — At least; the minimum amount

၎င်းတို့

di goun do — They; those; them (third person plural)

ဖော်ထုတ်

hpaw htoat — To identify; extract; reveal something hidden

နည်းများ

ní mya — Methods; ways; techniques used

အားဖြင့်

á hpyin — By means of; through; via

ဆိုလျှင်

so hlyin — If; when; in the case that

များသော

mya thaw — Numerous; many; a large quantity

အခြားသူများ

a khja thu mya — Other people; others; different persons

ထံမှ

htán hmá — From; originating from a person

ကူးယူ

ku yu — To copy; borrow; take from another

ထားသည်များ

hta thì mya — Things that have been kept or placed

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit pyi — Having become; being the case; therefore

ထင်ရှား

htin shá — Prominent; clear; well-known; obvious

ဖုံးကွယ်မှု

hpoun kwè hmu — Concealment; hiding; covering something up

များကြောင့်

mya kyaung — Because of many; due to numerous things

ညံ့ဖျင်း

nyán hpyin — Poor quality; incompetent; inferior

လေ့

lè — Habitual tendency; to tend to do

ရှိသော

shí thaw — Having; existing; that which has

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; owing to

စီရင်ချက်

si yin jèt — Judgment; verdict; ruling or decision

များကို

mya go — Object marker for plural things or people

ဆိုင်းငံ့

saing ngán — To postpone; delay; put off action

ထားခြင်း

hta jin — The act of keeping or placing aside

အကန့်အသတ်

a kán a thàt — Limitation; restriction; boundary imposed

မရှိသော

ma shí thaw — Lacking; without; not having something

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myaw lin jèt — Hope; expectation; something anticipated

ကိစ္စရပ်

kit sa yat — Matter; affair; issue to deal with

ဖခင်

hpa khin — Father; male parent

က

ga — Subject marker particle in a sentence

မာနကြီးစွာ

ma na kji zwa — Arrogantly; with great pride or haughtiness

အကြံပြု

a kján pyu — To suggest; advise; recommend something

ခဲ့သည့်

khè thì — Past tense attributive; which did occur

အတိုင်း

a tine — According to; as; in accordance with

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well; additionally

ထပ်ဆင့်

htat sin — Repeatedly; layer upon layer; again

ပြောနေ

pyaw nè — Continuously speaking; talking on

သည်မှာ

thì hmá — The thing is; as for; regarding

အခြေခံ

a khyè khán — Foundation; basis; fundamental element

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mwan — Good; virtuous; excellent in quality

ငြိမ်သက်မှု

nyein thèt hmu — Peace; calmness; tranquility of mind

အာရုံ

a youn — Attention; sense; focus; perception

ခံနိုင်

khán naing — Able to endure; can tolerate or withstand

စွမ်း

zwán — Ability; capacity; power to do

မွေးကတည်းက

mwè ga dì ga — Since birth; from the time of birth

မညီမျှ

ma nyi myá — Unequal; unfair; not evenly distributed

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial particle indicating manner or degree

ခွဲဝေ

khwè wè — To divide; distribute; share among others

ပေးထားသည်

pè hta thì — Has given; has provided; distributed already

ဆိုသော

so thaw — Called; so-called; referred to as

အချက်

a jèt — Point; fact; key element or detail

ကို

go — Object marker particle in a sentence

မေ့သွားပါက

mè thwá ba ga — If one forgets; should one forget

လွတ်သွားမည်

lwàt thwá mì — Will miss out; will be lost forever

ယခုတိုင်

ya khu taing — Until now; still; up to this moment

အနည်းငယ်

a ní ngè — A little; a small amount; few

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kyout ywan — To fear; be frightened; feel afraid

နေဆဲ

nè zè — Still ongoing; continuing to be; yet

ထိုသို့

hto thó — In that way; thus; like that

ပြတ်သားသော

pyat tha thaw — Clear; decisive; definite; unambiguous

သည်းခံမှု

thìn khán hmu — Patience; tolerance; endurance of difficulty

ကြွားဝါ

kjwá wa — To boast; brag; show off arrogantly

ပြီးနောက်

pyi nout — After; following; subsequent to something

ထို

hto — That; those; referring to something mentioned

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a place or time

ကန့်သတ်ချက်

kán tháht jèt — Restriction; limitation; imposed constraint

ရှိကြောင်း

shí kyaung — That there is; indicating existence of something

ဝန်ခံ

wun khán — To admit; confess; acknowledge the truth

လိုက်ရ

lait ya — Must follow; obliged to comply with

အပြုအမူ

a pyu a mu — Behavior; conduct; manner of acting

မာကျောသော

ma kyaw thaw — Hard; tough; rigid; unyielding in nature

ကျောက်ဆောင်

kyout saung — Rock; boulder; large stone formation

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon; on a surface

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit sè — Whether; regardless; causing to become

စိုစွတ်သော

so zwàt thaw — Wet; moist; damp to the touch

ဝဟာမြေ

wa ha myè — Open land; vast empty ground or terrain

အခြေတည်

a khyè tì — To be grounded; based; established firmly

နိုင်သည်

naing thì — Can; is able to; capable of doing

သို့သော်

thó thaw — However; but; nevertheless; on the contrary

တစ်ချို့သော

tit jó thaw — Some; certain; a few particular ones

အဆင့်

a sin — Level; stage; rank; degree of something

ကျော်လွန်

kyaw lwun — To exceed; surpass; go beyond a limit

မည်သည့်

mì thì — Whatever; whichever; any kind of thing

နေရာ

nè ya — Place; location; spot; position

ဂရု

ga yu — Care; attention; mindfulness; heedfulness

မစိုက်

ma soit — Not paying attention; not caring about

ယမန်နှစ်

ya man hnit — Last year; the previous year

ဆောင်းဦး

saung ú — Early autumn; beginning of cool season

ရာသီ

ya thì — Season; period of the year

အရှေ့ဘက်

a shè bet — Eastern direction; the east side

မှ

hmá — From; since; out of a place

ပြန်လာသော

pyan la thaw — Returning; coming back from somewhere

ကမ္ဘာကြီး

kàm ba kji — The world; the great Earth; globe

စစ်ဝတ်စုံ

sit wàt soon — Military uniform; army dress outfit

ဝတ်ဆင်ကာ

wàt sin ga — Wearing; dressed in; adorned with clothing

တစ်ဖက်

tit bèt — One side; one direction; the other side

တစ်လမ်းမှ

tit lán hmá — From one path; via one direction

ကိုင်ဆောင်သော

kaing saung thaw — Carrying; holding; bearing something on person

ကျင့်ဝတ်

kjin wàt — Ethics; moral code; professional conduct

အပြည့်

a pyí — Fully; completely; to the full extent

အမြဲတမ်း

a myè dàn — Always; forever; constantly; perpetually

ရှိနေ

shí nè — To be present; to continue existing

စေချင်သည်

sè jin thì — Wants to cause; wishes someone to do

ခံစားမိ

khán sá mi — To inadvertently feel; to sense emotionally

လူသား

lu thá — Human being; humankind; person

ထဲသို့

htè thó — Into; going inside; toward the interior

အခွင့်အရေး

a khwin a yè — Right; opportunity; privilege; entitlement

ရသော

ya thaw — Received; obtained; that which one gets

တစ်ချက်မျှ

tit jèt myá — Just once; even a single glance

ကြည့်ကာ

kji ga — Looking at; gazing while doing something

ဆူဆူညံညံ

su su nyán nyán — Noisily; loudly; in a boisterous manner

ခရီးသွား

kha yì thwá — Traveler; to travel; journey somewhere

ခြင်းများ

jin mya — Acts; instances; nominalized plural actions

နောက်ထပ်

nout htat — Another; additional; one more; further

မလိုချင်

ma lo jin — To not want; to not desire something

ဤ

ì — This; formal/literary pronoun for 'this'

စာအုပ်

sa out — Book; written volume; publication

အတွက်

a twèt — For; for the sake of; regarding

နာမည်

na mì — Name; title given to someone or something

ပေးသော

pè thaw — Giving; that which gives or provides

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third person singular

သာလျှင်

tha hlyin — Only; solely; exclusively; just that alone

တုံ့ပြန်မှု

toun pyan hmu — Reaction; response; feedback to something

ကင်းလွတ်

kin lwàt — Free from; exempt; relieved of something

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission; right; allowance to do something

ရခဲ့သည်

ya khè thì — Managed to get; succeeded in obtaining

ဖောက်ပြန်မှု

hpout pyan hmu — Betrayal; infidelity; breach of trust

တုပ်တုပ်

tout tout — Stubbornly; rigidly; in an obstinate manner

မောင်းမောင်း

maung maung — Driving; steering; operating a vehicle

ထားသော

hta thaw — Placed; kept; stored; that which is set

အရာရာ

a ya ya — Everything; all things; every single matter

ကိုယ်စားပြု

ko sá pyu — To represent; symbolize; stand in for

ကိုယ်ရည်ကိုယ်သွေး

ko yì ko thwè — Character; personal qualities; integrity

ဆိုသည်မှာ

so thì hmá — What is meant is; that is to say

အောင်မြင်သော

aung myin thaw — Successful; victorious; having achieved goals

ဟန်ဆောင်မှုများ

hán saung hmu mya — Pretenses; acts of deception; false displays

မပြတ်

ma pyàt — Without stopping; continuously; uninterruptedly

တစ်ဆက်တည်း

tit séht tì — In one continuous sequence; all at once

၎င်း

di goun — It; he; she; that aforementioned thing

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — About; reason; cause; subject matter

တစ်ခုခုသော

tit khu khu thaw — Some; a certain; some kind of thing

ထူးခြားသော

htù khyá thaw — Unusual; special; extraordinary; remarkable

အလှ

a hlá — Beauty; attractiveness; aesthetic quality

ရှိခဲ့သည်

shí khè thì — Was; existed; had been present before

မိုင်

maing — Mile; unit of distance measurement

တစ်သောင်း

tit thaung — Ten thousand; the number 10,000

ကွာဝေးရာ

kwa wè ya — Far away; distant place; remote location

ငလျင်လှုပ်မှုများ

nga lyin hlout hmu mya — Earthquakes; seismic tremors or shaking

မှတ်တမ်းတင်

hmàt tàn tin — To record; document; register officially

နိုင်သော

naing thaw — Able; capable; that which can do something

ရှုပ်ထွေးသော

shout htwè thaw — Complex; complicated; confusing; intricate