The Great Gatsby — Page 7

Vocabulary

ဆိုသည်မှာ

hso thi hma — Means; that is to say, namely

ထို

hto — That; referring to something previously mentioned

နာမည်

na myè — Name; a person's or thing's name

ရှိသော

shì thaw — Which has; that exists or is present

တစ်ဦး

tit ù — One person; a single individual (counter)

နေထိုင်သော

nè htaing thaw — Who lives or resides in a place

နန်းတော်

nán daw — Palace; royal residence or grand mansion

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item (general counter)

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit thi — Is; to be, to exist (declarative verb)

ကျွန်တော်

kjànaw — I; first-person pronoun used by males

၏

ì — Possessive particle; of, belonging to

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko paing — Own; personal, belonging to oneself

အိမ်

èin — House; a home or dwelling place

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

မျက်စိ

myat si — Eye; the organ of sight

ဆေး

hsè — Medicine; also paint or dye

သကဲ့သို့

tha kè hto — As if; like, similar to something

ရှုမဝ

shu ma wa — Cannot get enough of viewing; breathtakingly beautiful

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that, who

နေရာ

nè ya — Place; location, spot, or position

သို့သော်

hto thaw — However; but, nevertheless, yet

၎င်း

di ngín — It; third-person pronoun for things or people

သေးငယ်

thè ngè — Small; tiny, little in size

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit pyi — Being; having become, and then also

လျစ်လျူရှု

lyit lyù shu — Ignore; to overlook or disregard something

ခံ

khan — To receive; to endure or suffer something

ထားရ

htà ya — To have to keep; to be left in state

ကြောင့်

kjàung — Because of; due to, on account of

ရေ

yè — Water; a basic liquid substance

မြင်ကွင်း

mjin gwin — View; scenery, visual field or panorama

အိမ်နီးချင်း

èin nì chín — Neighbor; a person living nearby

မြက်ခင်း

mjat khín — Lawn; a stretch of grass ground

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward (accusative)

တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်း

tit seit tit paing — Partially; a part of something, partially visible

မြင်နိုင်ခြင်း

mjin naing chín — Ability to see; visibility of something

နှင့်

hnin — And; with, together with (conjunction)

သန်းကြွယ်သူ

thán kjwè thu — Wealthy person; someone who is very rich

များ

myà — Many; plural marker, more than one

တစ်မျိုးတည်း

tit mjó dè — Only one kind; the same type only

ချောမောဆက်ဆံရ

chaw maw set san ya — To deal with smoothly; to interact politely and gracefully

နီးကပ်မှု

nì khat hmu — Closeness; proximity, intimate nearness

ဤ

ì — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby thing

အားလုံး

à lóng — All; everything, everyone, the whole

တစ်လ

tit la — One month; a period of one month

ဒေါ်လာ

daw là — Dollar; US currency unit

ရှစ်ဆယ်

shit hsè — Eighty; the number 80

ဖြင့်

hpjin — With; by means of, using (instrumental)

ရရှိ

ya shì — To obtain; to get or receive something

ယဉ်ကျေး

yín kjé — Civilized; cultured, refined, well-mannered

ကမ်းချောင်း

kán jàung — Shore; coastline or beach area

တစ်ဖက်ကမ်း

tit bhet kán — Opposite shore; the other side of water

တွင်

twin — In; at, within a place or time

ဖက်ရှင်

hpat shin — Fashion; style, trend in clothing or culture

ကျ

kja — To fall; to drop, or to suit well

ဖြူဖွေး

hpyu hpwé — Bright white; pale and gleaming in appearance

နား

ná — Ear; the organ of hearing

တောက်ပြောင်

tàut pjàung — Gleaming; shiny, brilliantly bright

နေ

nè — To live; to stay, to be (progressive)

ပြီး

pyí — After; having finished, completed action

နွေရာသီ

nwè ya thì — Summer; the hot season of the year

သမိုင်း

tha maing — History; historical record or background

တို့

to — Plural marker; we, they (group pronoun suffix)

ညစာ

nya za — Dinner; the evening meal

စား

sá — To eat; to consume food

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of (purposive)

ကား

ká — Car; automobile or vehicle

မောင်း

màung — To drive; to operate a vehicle

သွား

thwá — To go; to travel or move away

သည့်

thi — Relative clause particle; which, that (attributive)

ညနေ

nya nè — Evening; the late afternoon or evening time

ပိုင်း

paing — Part; section, period, or portion

တကယ်

ta kjè — Really; truly, genuinely, in fact

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even, just, emphasis particle

စတင်

sa tin — To begin; to start something for the first time

ဆွေမျိုး

swè mjó — Relative; a family relation or kinsman

ဝေး

wé — Far; distant, remote from here

တက္ကသိုလ်

tat ka tho — University; institution of higher education

သိကျွမ်း

thi kjwán — To know; to be acquainted or familiar with

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; did, have done previously

စစ်

sit — War; military conflict or warfare

ချင်း

chín — Each other; mutual, among themselves (reciprocal)

သူတို့

thu to — They; third-person plural pronoun

အတူ

a tu — Together; jointly, in company with others

နှစ်ရက်

hnit yet — Two days; a period of two days

ကြာ

kjà — To last; duration, for a length of time

နေထိုင်

nè htaing — To reside; to live somewhere habitually

သူ

thu — He/she; third-person singular pronoun

ခင်ပွန်း

khin bwán — Husband; a woman's male spouse

ကိုယ်ကာယ

ko ka ya — Physical body; relating to the physical form

စွမ်းရည်

swán yè — Ability; capability, skill, or talent

များစွာ

myà swà — Many; a great number or amount of

ဘောလုံး

baw lóng — Football/soccer; a ball sport

ကစား

ka sá — To play; to engage in a sport or game

ဖူးသော

hpú thaw — Who has experienced; having seen or met before

အစွမ်းအထား

a swán a htá — Power; strength, prowess, outstanding ability

ဆုံး

hsóng — Most; the utmost, the end or final point

ကစားသမား

ka sá tha má — Player; athlete, one who plays a sport

ထဲမှ

htè hma — From among; out of, from within a group

ဖြစ်ခဲ့ဆဲ

hpyit khè hsè — Still was; had been and continues to be

တစ်မျိုး

tit mjó — A kind; one type or sort of something

အားဖြင့်

à hpjin — In terms of; by means of, regarding

တစ်မျိုးသားလုံး

tit mjó thá lóng — An entire nation; a whole ethnic group

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

poat go — Person; individual, personality, notable figure

နှစ်

hnit — Year; a period of twelve months

နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ်

hnit hsè tit — Twenty-one; the number 21

အရွယ်

a ywè — Age; size, stage of life or growth

အလွန်

a lwán — Very; extremely, excessively, beyond normal

ကြီးမြတ်

kjí mjat — Great; noble, magnificent, highly esteemed

သော်လည်း

thaw lè — Although; even though, however, but

ကန့်သတ်

kan that — To limit; to restrict or constrain something

ချဲ့ကားမှု

chè ká hmu — Exaggeration; overstatement, expansion beyond truth

သို့

hto — To; toward, in the direction of

ရောက်ရှိ

yàut shì — To arrive; to reach a destination

သွားကာ

thwá ká — Having gone; after going, went and then

နောက်ပိုင်း

nàut paing — Afterward; later on, the subsequent period

အရာဝတ္ထု

a ya wat tu — Object; a physical thing or material item

ငြိမ်သက်

njein thet — Calm; peaceful, quiet, tranquil

ကျဆင်း

kja hsín — To decline; to fall down, deteriorate

ချိန်

chein — Time; a moment, period, or occasion

အရသာ

a ya tha — Flavor; taste, the quality of enjoyment

ကိုသာ

ko tha — Only; exclusively, just that thing (emphasis)

ခံစားရ

khan sá ya — To feel; to experience a sensation or emotion

သူများ

thu myà — Others; other people, those other individuals

မိသားစု

mi thá su — Family; household members, a family unit

မြောက်မြားစွာ

mjàut mjá swà — Abundantly; in great numbers, plentifully

ချမ်းသာ

chán tha — Wealthy; comfortable, prosperous, well-off

ကြွယ်ဝ

kjwè wa — Rich; abundant, affluent, full of wealth

ငွေကြေး

ngwè kjé — Money; currency, financial means

ပတ်သက်

pat thet — Related to; concerned with, involved in

လွတ်လပ်မှု

lwat lat hmu — Freedom; liberty, independence from constraint

ကဲ့ရဲ့

khè yè — To criticize; to mock or speak ill of

ဖွယ်

hpwè — Worthy of; deserving, likely to (suffix)

ကိစ္စ

keit sa — Matter; affair, issue, concern

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

hpyit khè — Was; had been, occurred in the past

ယခု

ya khu — Now; at this time, currently, presently

မှ

hma — From; since, out of (ablative particle)

ထွက်ကာ

thwet ká — Having left; after going out or exiting

အသက်ရှု

a thet shu — To breathe; to inhale and exhale air

မဝ

ma wa — Not full; unsatisfied, not enough, insatiable

ပုံစံ

pón zan — Form; style, pattern, shape, or appearance

အရှေ့

a shè — East; front, forward direction or east side

လာ

là — To come; to approach, arrive toward speaker

ဥပမာ

u pa ma — Example; for instance, an illustrative case

ဆိုရ

hso ya — So to speak; to say, when it comes to

လျှင်

hlyin — If; when, conditional particle

မြင်း

mjín — Horse; a large domesticated riding animal

စု

su — To collect; to gather or accumulate things

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw hsàung — To bring along; to lead or take someone

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kjànaw to — We; first-person plural (male speaker inclusive)

မျိုးဆက်

mjó set — Generation; a lineage or successive generation

လူ

lu — Person; human being, people in general

တစ်ယောက်

tit yàut — One person; a single individual

ထိုသို့

hto hto — In that way; thus, like that, so

ပြုနိုင်

pju naing — Able to do; capable of performing an action

လောက်အောင်

làut àung — Enough to; to the extent that, sufficiently

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that, called (quote marker)

သဘောပေါက်

tha baw pàut — To understand; to grasp the meaning or idea

ခက်ခဲ

khet khè — Difficult; hard, challenging, not easy

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a bè kjàung — Why; for what reason, what cause

မသိ

ma thi — Do not know; unaware, ignorant of something

ပါ

pà — Polite particle; please, also (softening particle)