The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 3

Vocabulary

အို

o — Exclamation expressing surprise or realization

အိမ်နီးချင်းများ

ein ni jin myar — Neighbors; people living nearby

သင့်

thin — Your; belonging to you (informal possessive)

ဒေသတွင်

de thar twin — In the region or local area

ကောင်းသော

kaung tha — Good; having positive qualities (adjective form)

ရှိပါသလား

shi ba tha lar — Is there / do you have (polite question)

အလွန်ပင်

a lwan pin — Extremely; very much indeed

ဆိုးရွားလှသည်

so ywar hla dhi — Is terribly bad or dreadful

သူတို့

thu doh — They; third person plural pronoun

ထဲမှ

hteh hma — From within; out of a group or place

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; a single individual

နှင့်မျှ

hnin hmya — Even with; as much as (comparative particle)

စကားမဆိုဘူး

za gar ma hso buu — Does not speak; says nothing at all

သင်သည်

thin dhi — You are; subject marker for second person

သူတို့ကို

thu doh go — To them; object marker for third person plural

မည်မျှ

myi hmya — How much; how many (interrogative quantity)

အလွန်အကျွံ

a lwan a kjun — Excessively; to an extreme degree

ရယ်မောစေမည်နည်း

yeh maw say myi hneh — How will it make one laugh?

သွားပြီး

thwar pyi — Having gone; went and then (sequential action)

သားငါးပေါင်မုန့်

tha nga paung mun — Fish sandwich; bread filled with fish

ယူသည်

yu dhi — Takes; to take or bring something

ကိစ္စတစ်ခုတော့

keit sa tit khu daw — There is one matter; regarding one thing

ပြောဦးမည်

pyaw oun myi — Will say first; intend to mention something

သည်

dhi — Is; subject or verb marker particle

ကောင်တီ

kaung ti — County; an administrative regional division

မဟုတ်ပါသလား

ma hout pa tha lar — Is it not so? Seeking confirmation politely

ဟင်

hin — Hm; exclamation expressing surprise or query

လား

lar — Question particle placed at sentence end

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hout keh — Yes; polite affirmative response

ဟုတ်ပါတယ်

hout pa deh — Yes, that is correct (polite affirmation)

ဟယ်လို

heh lo — Hello; common greeting word

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun or adjective

ခွက်များ

khwet myar — Cups; plural of cup for drinking

အားလုံး

ar lone — All; everyone or everything together

ဘာကြောင့်

ba kjoun — Why; for what reason (interrogative)

နည်း

hneh — Question particle; also means method or way

သခွားမှောင်

tha khwar hmoun — Cucumber sandwiches; thin cucumber-filled bread

သားငါးပေါင်မုန့်များ

tha nga paung mun myar — Fish sandwiches; plural of fish sandwich

ငယ်ရွယ်သော

ngeh yweh tha — Young; of a young age (adjective)

သူ

thu — He or she; third person singular pronoun

တွင်

twin — In; at; location marker particle

ဤမျှ

i hmya — This much; to this extent or degree

တသတ်မတ်တည်း

ta thut mat teh — Consistently; uniformly without variation

ဖြုန်းတီးမှု

phyoun ti hmu — Waste; squandering of resources or time

လက်ဖက်ရည်

la phet yeh — Tea; a common hot beverage

သောက်ရန်

thout yan — In order to drink; for drinking purposes

ဘယ်သူ

beh thu — Who; which person (interrogative pronoun)

လာမည်

la myi — Will come; future tense of coming

အရီး

a yi — Aunt; a female relative of older generation

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction or accompaniment particle

သာ

tha — Only; just; limiting or emphasis particle

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit dhi — Is; to be; existence or identity verb

လှပ

hla ba — Beautiful; attractive in appearance

ပျော်ရွှင်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်

pyaw shwin phweh kaung dhi — Is delightful; pleasurable and enjoyable

ထိုအရာများ

hto a ya myar — Those things; plural referring to distant objects

ကောင်းသည်ပင်

kaung dhi pin — Is indeed good; emphasizing something positive

ဖြစ်သော်လည်း

phyit thaw leh — Although it is; even though; concessive conjunction

သင်

thin — You; second person singular pronoun

ဤနေရာ

i nay ya — This place; here; current location

ရှိနေခြင်းကို

shi nay chin go — The fact of being present (object marker)

လုံးဝ

loun wa — Completely; absolutely; entirely without exception

သဘောကျ

tha baw kja — To like; to be pleased or satisfied

မည်

myi — Will; future tense marker particle

မဟုတ်ဟု

ma hout htu — Saying that it is not; expressing denial

ကျွန်တော်

kja naw — I; first person singular pronoun (male)

စိုးရိမ်မိသည်

so yim mi dhi — Feel worried; experience concern or anxiety

ဆိုတာ

so ta — The thing called; what is meant by

မေးလို့

meh lo — Because of asking; by reason of questioning

ရပါသလား

ya ba tha lar — May I? Is it possible? (polite question)

ကျွန်တော်ရဲ့

kja naw yeh — My; possessive form of first person male

ချစ်သော

chit tha — Dear; beloved; loved (adjective form)

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit sweh — Friend; a close acquaintance or companion

နှစ်သက်

hnit thet — To like; to have affection or fondness

ဆောင်ရွက်ပုံ

saung ywet poun — Manner of acting; way of conducting oneself

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; highly (intensifier adverb)

ရှက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်

shet phweh kaung dhi — Is shameful; worthy of embarrassment or disgrace

သင့်နှင့်

thin hnin — With you; together with you

နီးပါးလောက်

ni bar lout — Nearly; almost; approximately to that degree

ဆိုးဝါးသည်

so war dhi — Is bad; wicked or severe in nature

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; toward

ချစ်သည်

chit dhi — Loves; to have romantic or deep affection

သူမ

thu ma — She; third person singular female pronoun

လက်ထပ်

let htat — To marry; to wed someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

တိတိကျကျ

tit ti kja kja — Precisely; exactly; with perfect accuracy

မြို့

myoh — Town; city; urban settlement

သို့

thoh — To; toward; directional particle

တက်လာသည်

tet la dhi — Came up; arrived (upward movement or arrival)

ပျော်ပွဲရွှင်ပွဲ

pyaw bweh shwin bweh — Celebration; festivity; a joyful social event

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

တက်လာသည်ဟု

tet la dhi htu — Saying that one came up; reporting arrival

ထင်ခဲ့သည်

htin kheh dhi — Had thought; believed or assumed previously

ကတော့

ga daw — As for; topic marker with emphasis

ထိုအရာ

hto a ya — That thing; referring to a distant object

စီးပွားရေး

si bwar yeh — Business; commercial or economic affairs

ဟု

htu — Quotation marker; said that; according to

ခေါ်သည်

khaw dhi — Calls; is called; to summon or name

ရိုးစင်းစွာ

yo sin zwa — Simply; in a plain or straightforward manner

ရောမန်တစ်

raw man tik — Romantic; relating to love and romance

မဆန်သည်

ma hsan dhi — Is not novel; not new or unusual

လက်ထပ်လိုကြောင်း

let htat lo kjoun — The fact of wanting to marry someone

အဆိုပြုခြင်း

a hso pyu chin — A proposal; act of proposing or suggesting

ဆန်သည့်

hsan dhi — Which is novel; new or unconventional (modifier)

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; object or subject

တကယ်

ta keh — Really; truly; genuinely (emphasis adverb)

မမြင်ပါ

ma myin ba — Cannot see; do not see at all

ချစ်ခင်ခြင်း

chit khin chin — Affection; feeling of love and fondness

ထဲတွင်

hteh twin — Inside; within a place or container

ရှိနေခြင်း

shi nay chin — The state of existing or being present

ဆန်သည်

hsan dhi — Is novel; is new or unconventional

သို့သော်

thoh thaw — However; but; nevertheless (conjunctive word)

တိကျသော

ti kja tha — Precise; exact; accurate (adjective form)

အဆိုပြုချက်

a hso pyu chet — Proposal; a formal suggestion or offer

မရှိပေ

ma shi peh — Does not exist; there is none at all

ဆိုသော်

so thaw — If one says; when speaking of (conditional)

တစ်ယောက်ယောက်

tit yout yout — Someone; some person (indefinite pronoun)

က

ga — Subject marker particle in a sentence

လက်ခံ

let khan — To accept; to receive or approve something

နိုင်သည်

nain dhi — Can; is able to; expressing capability

ယေဘုယျ

yeh bu ya — General; in general; broadly speaking

အားဖြင့်

ar phyin — By means of; in terms of; via

လက်ခံကြ

let khan kja — Accept (plural); they accept collectively

လေ့

leh — Habitually; tend to; usually does something

ရှိသည်

shi dhi — Exists; there is; to have or possess

ယုံကြည်သည်

yone kji dhi — Believes; to have trust or faith

ထိုအခါ

hto a kha — At that time; then; in that moment

ကြမ်းလှိုင်း

kjan hline — Turbulence; rough waves or tumultuous movement

လှုပ်ရှားမှု

hlout shar hmu — Movement; activity; motion or agitation

ပြီးဆုံး

pyi zone — Finished; completed; come to an end

သွားသည်

thwar dhi — Goes; went; to go somewhere

ဆန်မှု

hsan hmu — Novelty; the quality of being new

၏

ei — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

အဓိက

a di ka — Main; principal; most important element

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — Heart; the seat of emotions and feelings

မသေချာ

ma thi cha — Uncertain; not sure; lacking certainty

မရေရာမှု

ma yeh ya hmu — Uncertainty; the state of being unclear

တစ်ခါမျှ

tit kha hmya — Never; not even once

လက်ထပ်ခဲ့ပါက

let htat kheh ba ga — If one had married; conditional past marriage

ထိုအချက်

hto a chet — That point; that fact or detail

မေ့လျော့

meh lyaw — To forget; to fail to remember something

ကြိုးစားမည်

kjo zar myi — Will try; will make an effort

ပတ်သက်ပြီး

pat thet pyi — Regarding; concerning; in relation to

သံသယ

than tha ya — Doubt; suspicion; uncertainty about something

မရှိပါ

ma shi ba — There is not; does not exist (polite)