The Great Gatsby — Page 8

Vocabulary

သူတို့သည်

thu-tote-thì — They (subject marker attached); refers to a group

ထူးခြားသော

htù-jà-thò — Unusual, distinctive, or remarkable in nature

အကြောင်းရင်း

à-jàung-yìn — Reason, cause, or basis for something

မရှိဘဲ

ma-shì-bɛ̀ — Without having; in the absence of something

ပြင်သစ်

pyìn-thit — France; the country of France

နိုင်ငံတွင်

naing-ngàn-dwìn — Within a country or nation

တစ်နှစ်

tit-hnit — One year; a period of twelve months

ကုန်ဆုံး

kòun-sóun — To end, finish, or be exhausted completely

ခဲ့ပြီး

khɛ̀-bjì — Having done (past tense connector); already completed

လူများ

lù-myà — People; many persons or individuals

ပိုလို

pò-lò — To want more; desire additionally

ကစားကာ

kà-zà-ka — While playing; playing and then doing something

ချမ်းသာ

chàn-thà — Wealthy, prosperous, or well-off financially

ကြွယ်ဝ

jweì-wà — Rich, abundant, or affluent in resources

စွာ

swà — Adverbial suffix meaning 'fully' or 'in a manner'

အတူ

à-tu — Together; in the same place or company

နေရာများ

nɛ-yà-myà — Places; multiple locations or spots

တိုင်း

táin — Every; each and every one without exception

မငြိမ်

ma-nyein — Restless, unsettled, not calm or still

မသက်

ma-thɛʔ — Not at ease; uncomfortable or uneasy feeling

တစ်နေရာ

tit-nɛ-yà — One place; a particular location or spot

မှ

hmà — From; postposition indicating origin or source

သို့

thò — To; toward; directional postposition

နေ

nɛ — To live, stay, or reside; also sun

ခဲ့

khɛ̀ — Past tense auxiliary verb marker

ကြ

ja — Plural or collective verb marker for groups

သည်

thì — Subject marker or present tense particle

ဤ

ì — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby referent

အမြဲတမ်း

à-myɛ̀-dàn — Always, constantly, perpetually without interruption

မည့်

mɛ̀ — Future tense marker; will or going to

ပြောင်းရွေ့

pyàung-ywè — To move or relocate; change one's position

မှု

hmù — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or affair

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, or occur

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker meaning 'saying that' or 'as'

က

ka — Subject or agent marker particle

တယ်လီဖုန်း

tɛ-lì-phòun — Telephone; device for voice communication

ဖြင့်

phyìn — By means of; with; using (instrumental particle)

ပြော

pyò — To speak, say, or tell something

သော်လည်း

thò-lɛ̀ — However; although; even though (concessive conjunction)

ကျွန်တော်

kjàn-dò — I; first-person pronoun used by male speakers

မ

ma — Negation prefix meaning 'not' or 'un-'

ယုံကြည်

yòun-jì — To believe, trust, or have faith in

ပါ

pà — Polite particle; also 'also' or 'too'

၏

ì — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of'

နှလုံးသား

hnà-lóun-thà — Heart; the emotional or spiritual center within

ကို

ko — Object marker particle indicating direct object

ထိုးထွင်း

htó-tʰwìn — To pierce through; penetrate or see deeply

မြင်

myìn — To see, observe, or perceive visually

နိုင်

naing — To be able to; can; potential marker

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

ရှိ

shì — To have, exist, or be present somewhere

တစ်နေ့နေ့

tit-nɛ̀-nɛ̀ — One day; someday in the future

ပြန်

pyan — To return; go back; again or re-

ရ

ya — To obtain, get; also resultative verb marker

တော့

tɔ̀ — Then; now; modal particle indicating transition

သော

thò — Relative clause marker; that which is...

ဘောလုံးပွဲ

bɔ-lóun-pwɛ̀ — Football match; a soccer game or event

တစ်ပွဲ

tit-pwɛ̀ — One event, game, or show

ဆူညံ

sù-nyàn — Noisy, loud, clamorous; making much noise

ငယ်ငယ်ရွယ်ရွယ်

ngɛ-ngɛ-ywɛ-ywɛ — Young and youthful; in one's youth

ဆန္ဒ

sàn-da — Desire, wish, or aspiration for something

ပြည့်ဝ

pyì-wà — Full, complete, or fulfilled; abundantly satisfied

ဘဲ

bɛ̀ — Without doing; negative connective particle

ထာဝစဉ်

tʰà-wà-zin — Eternally, forever, everlastingly; throughout all time

ရှာဖွေ

shà-phwɛ — To search, seek, or look for something

ကာ

ka — Continuative particle; while doing or and then

မည်

mɛ — Future tense marker; will, shall, going to

ခံစား

khàn-zà — To feel, experience, or sense an emotion

မိ

mi — Resultative particle indicating accidental or completed action

ထို့ကြောင့်

htó-jàun — Therefore, for that reason, consequently, thus

နွေးထွေး

nwé-twé — Warm, cozy, or affectionate; emotionally comfortable

ပြီး

bjì — After completing; done; and then (sequence marker)

လေ

lɛ — Sentence final particle expressing mild assertion

တိုက်

taiʔ — Building, block; also to attack or fight

ညနေ

nya-nɛ — Evening, late afternoon time of day

တစ်ည

tit-nya — One night; a single night's duration

တွင်

dwìn — In, at, within; locative postposition

သိပ်

theiʔ — Very, extremely; intensifier or 'quite'

ရင်းနှီး

yìn-hnì — Familiar, intimate, close; deeply acquainted with

လှ

hlà — Beautiful, pretty, or attractive in appearance

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

hàung-nwàn — Old and worn out; dilapidated or shabby

မိတ်ဆွေ

meiʔ-swɛ — Friend; a close companion or acquaintance

နှစ်ဦး

hnit-ú — Two people; a pair of individuals

တွေ့ဆုံ

twɛ̀-sóun — To meet, encounter, or gather with someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

အရှေ့

à-shɛ̀ — East; or the front direction ahead

မောင်းနှင်

màung-hnin — To drive a vehicle; to steer or pilot

သွား

thwà — To go; to travel toward somewhere

သူတို့

thu-tó — They, them; third-person plural pronoun

အိမ်

ein — House, home; place of residence

မျှော်လင့်

mjɔ̀-lin — To hope, expect, or look forward to

ထား

tʰà — To place, keep, or maintain in position

ထက်

tʰɛʔ — Than; comparative particle for comparison

ပို

pò — More; comparative degree adverb

၍

ywɛ̀ — And so; therefore; connective particle in writing

ထည်ဝါ

tʰɛ-wà — Grand, magnificent, majestic, or splendid in appearance

ကြောင်း

jàung — That (reporting particle); nominalizer for reported speech

ပြ

pya — To show, demonstrate, or display something

အော်

ɔ̀ — To shout, yell, or cry out loudly

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, still; emphatic particle

ကြည်နူး

jì-nù — To feel pleased, moved, or emotionally touched

ဖွယ်

phwɛ̀ — Worthy of; deserving; suggesting likelihood or suitability

ကောင်း

kàun — Good, fine, excellent; positive quality

အနီ

à-nì — Red; the color red

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle

အဖြူ

à-phyù — White; the color white

ရောင်

yaung — Color; hue or shade of something

ကြီး

jì — Big, large, great; major in size or importance

တစ်ခု

tit-kʰù — One thing; a single item or unit

ဖြစ်ကာ

phyit-ka — Being or becoming; while being something

ပင်လယ်အော်

pin-lɛ-ɔ̀ — Gulf; a large body of seawater

မျှော်ကြည့်

mjɔ̀-jì — To gaze into the distance; to look out toward

တည်ရှိ

tɛ̀-shì — To exist, be located, or stand at a place

မြက်ခင်း

myaʔ-khìn — Lawn, grassy area; a stretch of grass

သဲသောင်ခြေ

thɛ-thaung-chɛ — Sandy beach; shoreline covered with sand

စတင်

sa-tin — To begin, start, or commence doing something

မိုင်

main — Mile; unit of distance measurement

တစ်မိုင်

tit-main — One mile; a single mile of distance

လေးပုံ

lɛ-boun — Four parts; one of four portions

တစ်ပုံ

tit-boun — One portion, one part of a whole

မျှ

hmya — Only, merely, just; approximation or equality marker

အကွာ

à-kwa — Distance, gap, or interval between two points

အဆောင်

à-saung — Dormitory, hall, or residential building wing

ရှေ့

shɛ̀ — Front, ahead; in front of something

တံခါး

dàn-ga — Door, gate; an entrance or exit panel

ဆီ

sì — Toward, in the direction of; also oil

ဆင်းသက်

sin-tʰɛʔ — To descend, slope down, or come from above

နေရိပ်

nɛ-yeiʔ — Shade; a shaded or sheltered spot from sun

နာရီ

na-yì — Hour; also clock or watch

များ

myà — Many, plural marker; a lot of something

အုတ်

ouʔ — Brick; baked clay building material

လမ်း

làn — Road, path, street, or way

ပွင့်ပြင်း

pwìn-pyin — Open and frank; candid or straightforward manner

ဥယျာဉ်

u-yin — Garden; a cultivated outdoor space with plants

ကျော်ဖြတ်

jaw-phyaʔ — To pass through, cross over, or surpass

နောက်ဆုံး

nauʔ-sóun — Final, last, ultimately; at the very end

ရောက်

yauʔ — To arrive at or reach a destination

အခါ

à-kʰa — Time, occasion, when; at the time of

၎င်း

da-gin — It, he, she, that; formal third-person reference

ပြေး

pyé — To run, flee, or sprint away quickly

အား

à — Object marker; strength; or free time depending on context

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

phyit-pɔ̀ — To arise, emerge, or come into existence

ကဲ့သို့

kɛ̀-thò — Like, similar to; in the manner of

တောက်ပ

tauʔ-pa — Bright, shining, luminous; radiant with light

နွယ်ပင်

nwɛ-pin — Vine, creeper; a climbing or trailing plant

နံဘေး

nàn-bé — Side, beside; the lateral area next to something

တစ်ဖက်

tit-pʰɛʔ — One side; on one side of something

တက်

tɛʔ — To climb, rise, go up; attend (school etc.)

ဘက်

bɛʔ — Side, direction, toward; party or faction

ပုံစံ

boun-zan — Shape, form, style, pattern, or format

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pyà-tin-bauʔ — Window; an opening in a wall for light

တန်း

tàn — Row, line, class level; or a wooden plank

ပြတ်တောက်

pyaʔ-tauʔ — Cut off, severed, broken apart; discontinued abruptly

ယခု

ya-kʰù — Now, currently, at this present moment

ရွှေ

shwé — Gold; the precious yellow metal

ပြန်ဟပ်

pyan-haʔ — To reflect light or mirror an image back

နေ့ခင်း

nɛ-khìn — Daytime, midday; the middle part of the day

ကျယ်ကျယ်

kjɛ-kjɛ — Widely, broadly; in an expansive manner

ပြန့်ပြန့်

pyàn-pyàn — Spread out, wide; extending broadly in all directions

ဖွင့်

phwìn — To open, turn on, or launch something

စီးမောင်း

sì-màung — To drive or ride (a vehicle) somewhere

အဝတ်အစား

à-wuʔ-à-zà — Clothing, clothes, garments, or attire worn

ဝတ်ဆင်

wuʔ-sin — To wear or put on clothing or accessories

ပေါ်

pɔ̀ — On top of, upon; to appear or emerge

ခြေထောက်

chɛ-tauʔ — Foot, leg; the lower limb used for walking

နှစ်ချောင်း

hnit-jaun — Two (long objects); two legs or sticks

ဖြန့်

phyàn — To spread out, stretch, or extend something flat

ရပ်

yaʔ — To stop, stand, or halt in place

သူ

thu — He, she, or they (singular third person)

နေထိုင်

nɛ-htain — To live, reside, or dwell in a place

နှစ်များ

hnit-myà — Years; multiple years of time

တည်းက

tɛ̀-ka — Since; from a past point in time until now

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyàung-lɛ̀ — To change, transform, or alter significantly

သက်တမ်း

thɛʔ-tàn — Lifespan, tenure, period of validity or existence

သုံးဆယ်

thóun-shɛ — Thirty; the number thirty

ခိုင်မာ

khain-ma — Strong, firm, stable, or solid; sturdy quality