The Great Gatsby — Page 3

Vocabulary

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun used in writing

တုံ့ပြန်မှု

tone pyann hmu — Response or reaction to something

သည်

thit — Grammatical topic marker or verb ending particle

ဖန်တီး

hpan ti — To create or invent something new

နိုင်သော

naing thaw — Able to; capable of doing something

စိတ်နေဆောင်

seit ne saung — Disposition or attitude of the mind

ဟူသော

hu thaw — Called; known as; so-called

နာမည်

na meh — Name of a person or thing

ဖြင့်

hpyit — With; by means of; instrumental particle

ဂုဏ်ပြု

gon pyu — To honor or pay respect to someone

ခြင်း

chit — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

ခံရသော

khan ya thaw — Received; subjected to; experienced something

ဖြေဖြေသာသာ

hpyay hpyay tha tha — Slowly and calmly; in a relaxed manner

သက်ရောက်

thek yout — To affect or have an impact on something

နိုင်မှု

naing hmu — Ability; capability to do something

နှင့်

hnit — And; with; conjunction particle

လုံးဝ

lone wa — Completely; absolutely; entirely

မဆက်နွှယ်

ma set nway — Unrelated; not connected to something

ပေ

pay — Emphatic or confirmatory sentence-final particle

၎င်း

de gin — He, she, it, or they; formal pronoun

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

myaw lint chet — Hope or expectation for the future

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

အထူးသော

a htu thaw — Special; extraordinary; particular

ဆုကျေးဇူး

su kyay zu — Gift or blessing bestowed as a reward

တစ်ရပ်

ta yat — One; a certain; a particular thing

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit pyi — Having become; being; after occurring

ကျွန်တော်

kyun taw — I; me; first-person male pronoun

အခြား

a chaa — Other; another; different

မည်သူ့

ma nhu — Whose; anyone's; referring to any person

ထံမှ

htan hma — From; originating from a person or place

မျှ

hmya — Only; merely; just; equalizing particle

တွေ့ဖူး

tway hpu — Have met or encountered before

မရှိသည့်

ma shi thit — That does not exist; lacking; absent

ရင်သပ်ရှုမောဖွယ်

yin thet shu maw hpway — Breathtaking; awe-inspiring; stunning to behold

အသင့်ရှိနေမှု

a thint shi nay hmu — State of being ready or prepared

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit thit — Is; to be; existential verb

နောင်

naung — Future; later; afterwards

တွင်

twit — In; at; within; locative particle

လည်း

leh — Also; too; as well; additive particle

တွေ့ရ

tway ya — To find; to encounter; to come across

ဖွယ်

hpway — Likely to; apt to; deserving of

မလား

ma la — Question particle expecting yes or no answer

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which; who

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun

တစ်ဦး

ta u — One person; a single individual

၏

ei — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 's

အရည်အချင်း

a yeh a chit — Quality; qualification; skill or ability

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not; negation of being

ဆုံး

zone — End; finish; to conclude or terminate

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung kaung — Well; properly; thoroughly; in a good manner

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic intensifier particle

ဖြစ်ထွန်း

hpyit htwan — To flourish; to thrive; to succeed

သွားသည်

thwa thit — Goes; went; directional verb away from speaker

သို့သော်

tho thaw — However; but; nevertheless; conjunctive particle

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative case particle

ဝါးမြိုသွားသော

wa myo thwa thaw — Swallowed up; consumed or engulfed completely

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; object; affair

အိပ်မက်

ate met — Dream; vision during sleep

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

နောက်

nout — After; behind; next; following

ပျံ့လွင့်

pyan lwin — To drift away; to scatter and disperse

ညစ်ညမ်းသော

nyit nyam thaw — Dirty; filthy; morally corrupt or obscene

မှုန့်မှုန်

hmone hmone — Dim; faint; hazy; indistinct

ဆိုး

so — Bad; evil; wicked; of poor quality

လူတို့

lu to — People; human beings in general

မအောင်မြင်သော

ma aung myit thaw — Unsuccessful; failed; not achieving goals

ဝမ်းနည်းမှု

wun neh hmu — Sadness; sorrow; grief

တိုတောင်းသော

to taung thaw — Short; brief; not long in length

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw shwin hmu — Happiness; joy; cheerfulness

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw shi — Located on top of; existing upon

စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု

seit win sa hmu — Interest; curiosity; fascination in something

ယာယီ

ya yi — Temporary; provisional; not permanent

ပိတ်ဆို့

pate so — To block; to obstruct; to close off

သွားခဲ့သည်

thwa khe thit — Went; has gone; departed in the past

မိသားစု

mi tha su — Family; household members

နိုင်ငံ

naing ngan — Country; nation; state

အနောက်

a nout — West; the back or rear direction

အလယ်ပိုင်း

a leh pine — Middle part; central region or section

မြို့တော်

myoh daw — Capital city; major urban center

မျိုးဆက်

myo set — Generation; lineage; successive group of people

သုံးဆက်

thone set — Three generations; spanning three lineages

တိုင်အောင်

tine aung — Until; up to a certain point

ထင်ရှား

htin sha — Famous; prominent; well-known

ကျော်ကြား

kyaw kya — Renowned; celebrated; widely known

ပြီး

pyi — Already; done; completing aspect marker

ချမ်းသာ

chan tha — Wealthy; prosperous; comfortable and rich

ကြွယ်ဝ

kyway wa — Abundant; affluent; having plenty of resources

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

hpyit khe — Was; became; occurred in the past

ကြသည်

kya thit — Plural verb marker; they do something

တစ်မျိုးတစ်ဖုံ

ta myo ta hpon — In a different way; of a unique kind

မျိုးရိုး

myo yo — Lineage; ancestry; hereditary line

နွယ်နွယ်

nway nway — Related; connected through family ties

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kyun taw to — We; us; first-person plural male pronoun

ဒျူးခ်

dyu — Duke; high-ranking nobleman or aristocrat

အမွေဆက်ခံ

a mway set khan — To inherit; to receive inherited property or title

သူများ

thu mya — They; those people; others

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying' or 'that'

ရိုးရာ

yo ya — Traditional; customary; conventional heritage

ဆိုလာ

so la — As it is said; as called; referred to as

တကယ့်

ta keh — Real; genuine; truly; in actuality

တည်ထောင်သူ

tit htaung thu — Founder; one who establishes something

ဘိုးဘေး

bo bay — Ancestors; forefathers; grandparents

ညီ

nyi — Younger sibling; equal; brother

ခုနှစ်

khuhnit — Year; used after numbers to indicate a year

နေရာ

nay ya — Place; location; position; spot

သို့

tho — To; toward; directional particle

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — To arrive at; to reach a place

လာကာ

la ka — Coming and then; having come and then

ပြည်တွင်းစစ်

pyi twit sit — Civil war; internal armed conflict

ကိုယ်စားလှယ်

ko sa lway — Representative; delegate; substitute agent

စေလွှတ်

say lhwut — To send; to dispatch someone somewhere

ဖခင်

hpa chin — Father; male parent

ယနေ့

ya nay — Today; this present day

တိုင်

tine — Until; up to; pole; to complain

ဆောင်ရွက်

saung ywet — To carry out; to perform; to conduct

နေသော

nay thaw — Living; residing; that which exists

သံထည်

than hteh — Hardware; iron goods; metal products

ပစ္စည်း

pyit si — Goods; items; belongings; materials

လက်ကား

let ka — Wholesale; selling in bulk quantities

ရောင်းချ

yaung chya — To sell; to offer for sale

သည့်

thit — Relative clause particle linking to noun

လုပ်ငန်း

lout ngan — Business; enterprise; work or trade

တည်ထောင်

tit htaung — To establish; to found; to set up

ခဲ့သူ

khe thu — The one who did; person who has done

ဘိုးဘေးကြီး

bo bay ji — Great-grandparents; remote ancestors

တစ်ခါ

ta kha — Once; one time; on one occasion

မမြင်

ma myit — Did not see; unable to see

ဖူးခဲ့

hpu khe — Has ever experienced or seen before

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — Even though; although; nevertheless

ရုံးခန်း

yone kan — Office room; workplace chamber

ချိတ်ဆွဲ

chet hsweh — To hang; to attach; to hook onto something

ထားသော

hta thaw — That which is kept or placed; stored

အတော်လေး

a taw lay — Quite; fairly; considerably; rather much

မာကြော

ma kyaw — Hard; tough; rigid; physically firm

ဆီးချောင်း

si chaung — Cane; walking stick; staff

ကားဆွဲ

ka hsweh — To tow a vehicle; to pull a car

ကွက်

kwet — Plot; gap; square; empty space

အထူး

a htu — Special; particularly; especially

ညွှန်းကိုး

hnwan ko — To refer to; to cite as a source

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; connecting conjunctive particle

တူသည်

tu thit — Is similar; resembles; is the same

ဆိုကြ

so kya — They say; it is said; people claim

မှ

hma — From; ablative particle indicating origin

ဘွဲ့ရ

bwe ya — To receive a degree; to graduate

ခဲ့ပြီး

khe pyi — Has already done; completed previously

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

ရာစုနှစ်

ya su hnit — Century; a period of one hundred years

တစ်ဝက်

ta wet — Half; one half of something

သာ

tha — Only; merely; just; restrictive particle

နောက်ကျ

nout kya — Late; delayed; behind schedule

ထို့နောက်

hto nout — After that; then; subsequently

မကြာမီ

ma kya mi — Soon; before long; in a short time

ကြီးမားသော

ji ma thaw — Large; great; significant in scale

စစ်ပွဲ

sit bweh — War; battle; military conflict

လူသိများ

lu thi mya — Well-known; widely recognized by people

ဂျာမန်

ja man — German; relating to Germany or its people

လူမျိုး

lu myo — Ethnicity; race; nationality of people

ရွေ့ပြောင်း

yway pyaung — To move; to migrate; to relocate

ခဲ့မှု

khe hmu — Act of having done; past action nominalized

ပါဝင်

pa win — To participate; to be included; to join

ခဲ့သည်

khe thit — Did; past tense auxiliary verb

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun for distant

တန်ပြန်

tan pyan — To counter; to retaliate; to fight back

တိုက်စစ်

tite sit — Offensive attack; military assault operation

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly; too much

နှစ်သက်

hnit thet — To like; to be fond of something

ခဲ့သော

khe thaw — That which happened; past relative clause marker

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; causal particle

မငြိမ်

ma nyim — Restless; uneasy; not calm or settled

မသက်

ma thet — Uneasy; not at ease; uncomfortable

ပြန်လာ

pyan la — To come back; to return to a place