The Great Gatsby — Page 4

Vocabulary

ကမ္ဘာ၏

kamba. ei — of the world; belonging to the earth

ပူနွေးသော

pu nwe: thaw — warm; having a comfortably high temperature

ဗဟိုဌာန

ba.ho htana — central station; headquarters or central hub

ဖြစ်မည့်

phyit myi. — will become; going to be in the future

အစား

a sa: — instead of; in place of something else

အလယ်ပိုင်း

a lɛ pite: — middle section; central part of something

နေရာ

ne ya — place; location; a specific spot or position

သည်

thi. — grammatical topic marker; indicates subject of sentence

ယခု

ya khu — now; at this present moment or time

အခါ

a kha — time; occasion; a particular moment or instance

စကြဝဠာ၏

sa ga wa la. ei — of the universe; belonging to the cosmos

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kyan: tan: thaw — rough; harsh; wild and unrefined in nature

အစွန်းအဖား

a swun: a pha: — outskirts; fringes; remote edge of an area

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ. tho. — like; similar to; in the manner of

ထင်ရ

htin ya — appears to be; seems evident or noticeable

သော

thaw — relative clause marker; that; which; who

ကြောင့်

kyaung. — because of; due to; for the reason that

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; first-person pronoun used by males formally

အရှေ့ဘက်

a shɛ. bɛ' — eastern direction; toward the east side

သို့

tho. — to; toward; indicating direction or destination

သွားကာ

thwa: ga — going and then; having gone to a place

ငွေသားချေးစာချုပ်

ngwe tha: che: sa choup — mortgage; a financial loan document or contract

လုပ်ငန်း

loup ngan: — business; work; an enterprise or occupation

ကို

go — object marker; indicates the direct object of verb

သင်ယူ

thin yu — to learn; to study and acquire knowledge

ရန်

yan — in order to; for the purpose of doing

ဆုံးဖြတ်

soun: phyat — to decide; to make a firm resolution or choice

လိုက်

lite — verb particle indicating following through or joining

သိသော

thi thaw — knowing; who knows; that which is known

လူတိုင်း

lu tite: — everyone; every person without exception

တွင်

twin — in; at; inside a place or context

ရှိ

shi. — to exist; to be present; to have

ကြ

kya — plural or collective verb particle for multiple subjects

ထို

tho — that; those; referring to something previously mentioned

အပို

a po — extra; additional; surplus beyond what is needed

ပြီး

pyi: — after; having finished; completion marker in sentences

လူပျို

lu pyo — bachelor; young unmarried man; single young man

တစ်ဦး

ti' u: — one person; a single individual person

ထောက်ပံ့

htout pan. — to support; to provide for; to subsidize someone

နိုင်

nine — can; able to; capable of doing something

လိမ့်မည်

lein myi. — will; future tense marker expressing likelihood

ဟု

hu — quotation marker; saying that; according to

ထင်မှတ်

htin hmut — to believe; to think; to assume or suppose

ခဲ့

khɛ. — past tense marker; did; indicating completed action

ကျွန်တော်၏

kyun daw ei — my; belonging to me; first-person male possessive

အဒေါ်

a daw — aunt; respectful term for an older woman relative

များ

mya: — plural marker; many; more than one thing

နှင့်

hnin. — and; with; together with another person or thing

ဦးလေး

u: le: — uncle; respectful term for an older male relative

အားလုံး

a: lone: — all; everyone; everything without leaving any out

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun daw. — my; me; first-person male possessive marker form

အတွက်

a twɛ' — for; for the sake of; on behalf of

ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်ရေး

kyo tin pyin sin ye: — preparation; advance arrangements made beforehand

ကျောင်း

kyaung: — school; educational institution for learning studies

ရွေးချယ်

wɛ: chɛ — to choose; to select from available options

နေ

ne — to live; to stay; continuous action particle

သည့်

thi. — relative clause marker modifying a preceding noun

ဆွေးနွေး

swɛ: nwɛ: — to discuss; to deliberate; to have a conversation

တိုင်ပင်

tine pin — to consult; to seek advice from someone else

နောက်ဆုံး

nout soun: — finally; last; in the end after everything else

အလွန်

a lwun — very; extremely; excessively beyond normal degree

တည်ငြိမ်

ti nyein — stable; calm; steady and not easily disturbed

တွန့်ဆုတ်

twun. sout — to hesitate; to shrink back; to hold back reluctantly

နေသော

ne thaw — living; staying; who is residing somewhere currently

မျက်နှာ

myɛ' hna — face; facial expression; front of one's head

ဖြင့်

phyin. — with; by means of; using a particular method

ဘာကြောင့်

ba kyaung. — why; for what reason; what is the cause

ဟုတ်

hout — yes; correct; that is right or true

ကဲ

kɛ — well; hey; interjection expressing prompt or mild surprise

ပြော

pyaw — to say; to speak; to tell someone something

အဖေ

a phɛ — father; dad; one's male parent

တစ်နှစ်တာ

ti' hnit ta — one year long; lasting the duration of one year

ငွေကြေး

ngwe kyɛ: — money; currency; financial funds or monetary resources

သဘောတူ

tha baw tu — to agree; to consent; to be in agreement with

အမျိုးမျိုး

a myo: myo: — various kinds; different types; all sorts of things

နှောင့်နှေး

hnoun. hnɛ: — to delay; to slow down; to cause a postponement

မှု

hmu — nominalizer suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns

နောက်

nout — after; behind; next; following in time or space

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit poun: — total years; combined number of years altogether

နှစ်ဆယ်နှစ်

hnit hsɛ hnit — twenty-two; the number twenty-two

၏

ei — possessive marker; of; belonging to something or someone

နွေဦး

nwɛ u: — spring season; early spring; beginning of warm season

ရာသီ

ya thi — season; a period of the year with distinct weather

အမြဲတမ်း

a myɛ: dan: — always; permanently; at all times without exception

နေထိုင်

ne htine — to live; to reside; to dwell in a place

ထင်

htin — to think; to believe; to have an opinion

ကာ

ga — verb particle indicating continued or sequential action

လာ

la — to come; verb particle indicating movement toward speaker

လက်တွေ့ကျ

lɛ' twɛ kya — practical; realistic; applied in real-world situations

အချက်

a chɛ' — point; fact; a key detail or important matter

မှာ

hma — at; in; locative marker indicating a place or location

မြို့

myo. — city; town; an urban settlement or municipality

ထဲ

htɛ — inside; within; into the interior of something

အခန်း

a khan: — room; a partitioned space inside a building

ရှာဖွေ

sha phwɛ — to search; to look for; to seek something out

ခြင်း

chin: — nominalizer; the act of; turns verbs into gerunds

ဖြစ်

phyit — to be; to become; to occur or take place

သို့သော်

tho. thaw — however; but; nevertheless; introduces a contrasting point

အပူပိုင်း

a pu pite: — tropical zone; hot climate region near the equator

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyɛ pyan. — wide; spacious; broad in area or extent

မြက်ခင်း

myɛ' khin: — lawn; grassy ground; an area covered with grass

ရင်းနှီး

yin: hni: — familiar; intimate; closely acquainted with someone

သစ်ပင်

thi' pin — tree; a large woody plant growing in the ground

ခြံကျယ်

chan kyal — large yard; spacious compound surrounding a house

မှ

hma — from; out of; indicating origin or starting point

ထွက်ခွာ

htwɛ' khwa — to depart; to leave; to go away from a place

သူ

thu — he; she; third-person singular pronoun for a person

ရုံး

yone: — office; a workplace for administrative or business work

လူငယ်

lu ngɛ — young person; youth; a person of young age

က

ga — subject marker; from; indicating agent of an action

ရထားတိုး

ya hta: to: — train station; place where trains stop and depart

သာ

tha — only; just; merely; restrictive emphasis particle

အိမ်

ein — house; home; a dwelling place for people

တစ်လုံး

ti' lone: — one unit; one whole piece of something round

အတူ

a tu — together; jointly; in the company of others

ငှား

hnga: — to rent; to hire; to lease for temporary use

အကြံပြု

a kyan pyu — to suggest; to recommend; to offer advice to someone

၎င်း

di gin: — he; she; it; formal third-person pronoun or referent

ကောင်းသော

kaung: thaw — good; fine; being of positive quality or character

အကြံ

a kyan — idea; suggestion; advice or a plan proposed

ရ

ya — to get; to obtain; resultative verb particle

တစ်လ

ti' la — one month; a period of one calendar month

လျှင်

hlyın — if; when; conditional marker in a sentence

ဒေါ်လာ

daw la — dollar; US dollar currency unit for monetary value

ရှစ်ဆယ်

shit hsɛ — eighty; the number 80

ရာသီဥတု

ya thi u tu — climate; weather; the prevailing atmospheric conditions of a region

ဖာထေး

pha htɛ: — to patch; to repair by covering a damaged area

ကတ္တော်ပါ

ka ttaw pa — carpet; a thick fabric floor covering for rooms

ဘောင်ကာ

baung ga — fence; a barrier or enclosure around a property

ဘားဂလို

ba ga lo — bungalow; a small single-story house or cottage

ရှာ

sha — to look for; to search for something or someone

တွေ့

twɛ. — to find; to meet; to come across something

သော်လည်း

thaw lɛ: — although; even though; despite the fact that

မိနစ်

mi nit — minute; a unit of time equal to sixty seconds

ကုမ္ပဏီ

kum pa ni — company; a business organization or corporate entity

သူ့

thu. — his; her; third-person singular possessive form

ဝါရှင်တန်

wa shin tan — Washington; the US capital city or Washington state

မှာကြား

hma kya: — to instruct; to order; to give directions to someone

တစ်ယောက်တည်း

ti' yout tɛ: — alone; by oneself; without anyone else present

နေရပ်

ne yat — residence; home address; the place where one lives

သွား

thwa: — to go; to travel to a place; departure verb

ခွေး

khwɛ: — dog; a domestic canine animal kept as a pet

တစ်ကောင်

ti' kaung — one animal; a single creature or animal unit

အနည်းဆုံး

a nɛ: soun: — at least; the minimum; no fewer than this amount

ထွက်ပြေး

htwɛ' pyɛ: — to flee; to run away; to escape from a place

အထိ

a hti — until; up to; as far as a point in time

ရက်

yɛ' — day; a calendar day; a period of twenty-four hours

အနည်းငယ်

a nɛ: ngɛ — a little; a small amount; slightly; not very much

မျှ

hmya — only; just; as much as; approximating a quantity

ထံ

htan — to; at the location of a person; near someone

ဟောင်းနောင်

haung naungg — old and worn; aged and deteriorated over time

ဒေါ့ချ်

dout — Dutch; relating to the Netherlands or its people

ကား

ka: — car; automobile; a motor vehicle for transportation

တစ်စီး

ti' si: — one vehicle; a single car or motorized vehicle

ဖင်လန်

phin lan — Finland; a Nordic country in northern Europe

မိန်းမ

mein ma — woman; female person; a grown female human being

အိပ်ရာ

eit ya — bed; sleeping place; furniture used for sleeping

ခင်းပေး

khin: pɛ: — to lay out; to spread and arrange neatly for use

မနက်စာ

ma nɛ' sa — breakfast; the first meal eaten in the morning

ချက်ပြုတ်

chɛ' pyout — to cook; to prepare food by applying heat

လျှပ်စစ်

hlyat sit — electricity; electric power used to run appliances

မီးဖို

mi: pho — stove; cooking fire; a device used for cooking food

အပေါ်

a pau — above; on top of; upper part or surface

ဉာဏ်ပညာ

nyan pyin nya — wisdom; knowledge and understanding; intellectual ability

တစ်ဦးတည်း

ti' u: tɛ: — alone; a single person only; by oneself entirely

တိုးတိုး

to: to: — softly; quietly; in a low volume manner

တုတ်တုတ်

tout tout — stocky; chubby; short and solidly built in body

ပြောဆို

pyaw so — to speak; to say; to express verbally to someone

တတ်

tat — to be able to; to know how to do something

တစ်ရက်

ti' yɛ' — one day; a single day's period of time

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit hseit — silent; quiet; completely free from noise or sound

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein thet — peaceful; calm; tranquil and undisturbed in atmosphere

မနက်

ma nɛ' — morning; the early part of the day before noon

တစ်ခု

ti' khu — one thing; a single item or object

ထက်

htɛ' — than; more than; used in comparative expressions

ပို

po — more; even more; to a greater degree or extent

၍

yway — and so; therefore; connective linking two clauses together

မကြာသေးမီ

ma kya thɛ: mi — recently; not long ago; in the near past

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi. — to arrive; to reach; to be present at a place

လမ်း

lan: — road; street; path for travel or transportation

ပေါ်

pau — on; on top of; appearing or emerging onto a surface

တားဆီး

ta: si: — to prevent; to block; to stop something from happening

ရပ်တန့်

yat tan. — to stop; to halt; to cease movement or action

စေ

sɛ — causative marker; to cause or make someone do something

ပင်

pin — even; indeed; emphatic particle stressing a point