The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 2

Vocabulary

ယခုအချိန်အထိ

ya.ku a.chain a.hti — up until this current moment in time

ကျွန်တော်ကိုယ်တိုင်

kyun.daw ko.dain — I myself, personally

ထိုအရာနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍

hto a.ya hnin pat.thak.yway — regarding that matter, concerning that thing

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a.tway a.kyon — experience, personal encounter or knowledge

အလွန်

a.lun — very, extremely, excessively

နည်းပါး

nee.pa — scarce, few in number, insufficient

လှသည်။

hla.dhi — is beautiful, is lovely

ကျွန်တော်

kyun.daw — I, me (formal male first person pronoun)

တစ်ကြိမ်

ta.kyain — once, one time

သာ

tha — only, just, merely

လက်ထပ်

let.htat — to marry, to wed

ဖူးသည်။

phu.dhi — have experienced before, have done previously

ထိုအရာမှာ

hto a.ya hma — as for that thing, regarding that matter

ကျွန်တော်နှင့်

kyun.daw hnin — with me, together with me

လူငယ်

lu.ngay — young person, youth

တစ်ဦး

ta.u — one person, a single individual

အကြား

a.kya — between, among, in the middle of

နားလည်မှု

na.le mhu — understanding, comprehension, mutual understanding

လွဲမှားမှု

lway.hma mhu — misunderstanding, mistake, error

တစ်ခု၏

ta.hku yay — of one thing, belonging to something

ရလဒ်

ya.lat — result, outcome, consequence

ကြောင့်

kyaun — because of, due to, owing to

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit.thi — is, exists, it is the case

ငြီးငွေ့သော

nyi.ngway dho — bored, weary, disinterested, tedious

အသံဖြင့်

a.than phyin — with a voice, in a tone of

မင်းရဲ့

min yay — your, belonging to you (informal)

မိသားစု

mi.tha.zu — family, household members

ဘဝ

ba.wa — life, existence, lifestyle

အကြောင်း

a.kyaun — about, regarding, concerning a topic

များများ

mya.mya — a lot, much, in large amounts

စပ်စု

sat.su — to pry, to be nosy, to inquire

ချင်မှန်း

chin.hman — wanting to, desiring (colloquial particle)

မဟုတ်

ma.hout — not, is not, negation particle

ပါဘူး

pa.bu — negative politeness particle, not at all

ခင်ဗျာ

kha.mya — sir, polite address term for men

၎င်းသည်

yin.dhi — it is, that one is (formal pronoun)

သိပ်

thate — very, quite, extremely (colloquial intensifier)

စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာ

seit.win.sa za.ya — interesting, worth being curious about

ကောင်းသော

kaun.dho — good, fine, excellent (adjective modifier)

အကြောင်းအရာ

a.kyaun a.ya — subject, topic, matter, content

မဟုတ်ပါ။

ma.hout pa — it is not, that is incorrect (polite)

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko.dain — oneself, personally, by oneself

၎င်း

yin — it, that one, he/she (formal pronoun)

ဘယ်တော့မှ

be.daw hma — never, not at any time whatsoever

မစဉ်းစား

ma.sin.za — not think about, not consider something

မိပါ။

mi.pa — caught oneself doing, came to realize

သဘာဝ

tha.ba.wa — nature, natural, naturally occurring

ကျ

kya — to fall, to suit, particle of aptness

လှပေသည်

hla pe.dhi — is indeed beautiful, turns out lovely

သေချာ

the.cha — certain, sure, definite, confirmed

သည်။

dhi — sentence-ending copula, is, does (formal)

ရပြီ

ya.byi — already obtained, done already, achieved

ကျေးဇူး

kyay.zu — gratitude, kindness, thank you

တင်သည်။

tin.thi — to offer, to present, to give thanks

တင်ပါသည်

tin.pa.dhi — politely offer, respectfully present or thank

ထွက်

htwet — to exit, to go out, to leave

သွားသည်

thwa.dhi — goes, went, to go away

လက်ထပ်ခြင်း

let.htat chin — marriage, the act of getting married

အပေါ်

a.pau — on top of, above, regarding, about

၏

yay — possessive particle, of, belonging to

အမြင်များသည်

a.myin mya.dhi — views are many, opinions are numerous

အနည်းငယ်

a.nyi ngay — a little, slightly, a small amount

ပေါ့လျော့

pau lyo — careless, casual, taking lightly, flippant

သည်ဟု

dhi hku — that it is, reporting particle (indirect speech)

ထင်ရသည်။

htin ya.dhi — seems to be, appears to be, I think

တကယ်တော့

ta.kay daw — actually, in reality, to tell the truth

အောက်တန်း

out.tan — lower class, inferior rank or status

လူတန်းစား

lu.tan.za — social class, class of people, rank

များက

mya ga — plural subject marker, those ones who

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kyun.daw do — we, us (formal male first person plural)

အား

a — object marker, to, for (grammatical particle)

နမူနာ

na.mu.na — example, model, sample, demonstration

မပြသပါက

ma.pya.tha pa ga — if we do not show or demonstrate

၎င်းတို့ကို

yin do go — to them, those ones (object, formal plural)

ဘာကြောင့်

ba kyaun — why, for what reason, because of what

ထားရ

hta ya — must keep, have to maintain or preserve

သနည်း

tha.nee — interrogative final particle, why/how is it

၎င်းတို့သည်

yin do dhi — they are, those ones are (formal)

တစ်ရပ်

ta.yat — one stance, a certain position or standpoint

အနေနှင့်

a.ne hnin — as, in the capacity of, in terms of

သိက္ခာ

thi.kha — dignity, honor, respectability, prestige

ရှိသော

shi dho — having, possessing, that which exists

တာဝန်ယူမှု

ta.wan yu mhu — responsibility, accountability, taking charge

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsine ya — related to, pertaining to, relevant to

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit.dat — spirit, morale, attitude, mental disposition

လုံးဝ

lon.wa — completely, totally, absolutely, entirely

မရှိကြဟု

ma.shi kya hku — that they entirely lack, do not have

ဝင်

win — to enter, to come in, to join

လာသည်

la.dhi — comes, arrived, to come (motion toward)

ဟေ့

hay — hey, an informal exclamation to address someone

ရင်ချစ်

yin.chit — dear, darling, beloved (term of affection)

နေကောင်း

ne kaun — well, in good health, doing fine

သလား

tha.la — question particle, is it so, are you

မြို့တော်

myo.daw — capital city, the main city

သို့

tho — to, toward, in the direction of

ရောက်

yout — to arrive, to reach a destination

လာတာလဲ

la ta le — came here, why did you come (question)

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw.shwin mhu — happiness, joy, pleasure, delight

တခြား

ta.cha — other, another, different, elsewhere

မည်သည့်

ma.dhi — whichever, whatever, any (interrogative modifier)

နေရာ

ne.ya — place, location, spot, position

သို့မဆို

tho ma.hso — wherever, to any place whatsoever

သွားသင့်

thwa thin — should go, ought to go somewhere

မလဲ

ma.le — shouldn't you, why not (rhetorical question)

အမြဲတမ်း

a.mye.dan — always, constantly, all the time

အတိုင်း

a.dine — as usual, according to, following the same way

စား

sa — to eat, to consume food

မြင်တယ်

myin.de — I see, to see, to notice something

တင်းမာသော

tin.ma dho — stiff, tense, rigid, formal in manner

ကောင်းမွန်သော

kaun.mun dho — good, virtuous, of high quality, excellent

လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်း

lu a.phway a.si — society, social organization, human community

တွင်

twin — in, at, within (locative particle)

ညေးနာရီ

nye na.yi — evening hour, late evening time

အချိုပွဲ

a.cho bwe — dessert, sweet dish, confectionery

စားသုံး

sa.thon — to eat and use, to consume something

ခြင်းသည်

chin dhi — the act of doing is (nominalizer copula)

ထုံးတမ်းစဉ်လာ

hton.dan.sin.la — tradition, custom, longstanding practice

ဖြစ်သည်ဟု

phyit.thi hku — that it is, reported to be (indirect speech)

ယုံကြည်သည်။

yon.kyi dhi — believes, has faith in, is convinced

ပြီးခဲ့သော

byi.khe dho — past, that which has already occurred

ကြာသပတေး

kya.tha.pa.de — Thursday (day of the week)

နေ့

ne — day, daytime

ကတည်းက

ga.din ga — since, from that time onward

မင်း

min — you (informal), a ruler or king

ဘယ်မှာ

be hma — where, at what place

နေ

ne — to stay, to live, to reside

သလဲ

tha.le — question particle asking where or how

ပေါ်တွင်

pau twin — on top of, upon, on the surface of

ထိုင်

htine — to sit, to be seated

လျက်

lyat — while doing, simultaneous action particle

ကျေးလက်

kyay.let — rural area, countryside, village setting

အဲဒီမှာ

a.di hma — there, at that place, over there

ဘာ

ba — what, something, anything (question word)

လုပ်

lout — to do, to work, to perform an action

လက်အိတ်များ

let.ait mya — gloves, a pair of hand coverings (plural)

ချွတ်

chwut — to remove, to take off clothing or items

အခါ

a.kha — when, at the time of, occasion

တစ်ဦးသည်

ta.u dhi — one person is, a certain individual

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi.mi ko.go — oneself, to oneself, reflexive pronoun

ဖျော်ဖြေ

phyaw.phye — to entertain, to amuse, to divert

သူများကို

thu.mya go — to other people, to others (object)

အလွန်ပင်

a.lun pin — exceedingly, truly extremely, very indeed

ငြီးငွေ့

nyi.ngway — bored, weary, tired of, disinterested

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phway kaun — worthy of, deserving of (positive evaluative)

ပြီးတော့

byi.daw — and then, after that, furthermore

ဖျော်ဖြေသော

phyaw.phye dho — entertaining, amusing, those who entertain

သူများကား

thu.mya ka — as for those people, those ones (topic)

အဘယ်သူများ

a.be thu mya — who are those people, who exactly (plural)

နည်း

nee — question particle asking what or how

ပေါ့ပေါ့ပါးပါး

pau pau pa pa — lightly, casually, in a carefree manner

သော

dho — relative clause marker, that, which, who

အသွင်

a.thwin — appearance, manner, guise, outward form

ဖြင့်

phyin — with, by means of, using (instrumental particle)