The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 6

Vocabulary

သူတစ်ပါး

thu ta bah — Other people; another person

၏

e — Possessive or attributive particle

စီးကရက်

si ga yet — Cigarette

သေတ္တာကို

thay hta ko — Box or case (object marker attached)

ဖတ်ရှု

phat shu — To read; to study written material

ခြင်းသည်

chin thit — Nominalizing suffix; the act of

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

pug gole — Person; individual

တစ်ဦး

ta ú — One person; a single individual

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

လုံးဝ

lóun wah — Completely; absolutely; entirely

မလျောင်

ma lyaung — Inappropriate; unsuitable; improper

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that; which

အမူအကျင့်

a mu a kyin — Behavior; conduct; manners

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit thì — Is; to be (statement-ending verb)

အို!

o! — Oh! exclamation of surprise or emotion

မည်သည့်

myi thi — Which; whatever; whichever

အရာကို

a ya ko — Thing; matter (with object marker)

ဖတ်

phat — To read

သင့်သည်၊

thín thì — Should; ought to

မဖတ်

ma phat — Not read; do not read

သင့်

thín — You; your; appropriate

ဆိုသည့်

so thì — Which says; that is called

တင်းကျပ်

tin kyat — Strict; tight; rigid

စည်းကမ်း

si gam — Rules; regulations; discipline

များ

myah — Plural marker; many; more

ချမှတ်

cha hmat — To set; to establish; to lay down

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a deit pa yé — Meaning; significance; definition

မဲ့

mé — Without; lacking; devoid of

ပေသည်။

pe thì — Emphatic sentence-final particle

ခေတ်သစ်

khet thit — Modern era; new age; contemporary times

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin kyé hmu — Culture; civilization; refinement

ထက်ဝက်

htet wet — Half; more than half

ကျော်

kyaw — Over; beyond; exceeding

သည်

thì — Topic marker; present tense particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that

ဆို

so — To say; to call; quotative verb

အရာ

a ya — Thing; matter; subject

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On; upon; on top of

မူတည်

mu tan — To depend on; to be based on

နေသည်။

ne thì — To stay; to live; ongoing action marker

ထို

hto — That; those (demonstrative)

အချက်ကို

a chet ko — That point; that fact (object marker)

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; me (formal male first person)

ကောင်းစွာ

kaun zwa — Well; properly; thoroughly

သိရှိ

thi shi — To know; to be aware of

ပြီး

pyi — After; already; completion marker

ဖြစ်သည်၊

phyit thì — Is; it is (with comma pause)

သို့သော်

thó thaw — However; but; nevertheless

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — Reason; cause; about; topic

ဆွေးနွေး

swé nwé — To discuss; to talk about

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

ရည်ရွယ်

yi ywe — To intend; to aim; to purpose

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix; the act of

မရှိ

ma shi — There is not; does not exist

ပါ။

pa — Polite sentence-final particle

အကြောင်းကို

a kyaung ko — About the matter (object marker)

တစ်ကိုယ်ရည်

ta ko yé — Personal; private; individual

ပြောဆို

pyaw so — To speak; to say; to talk

သင့်သော

thín thaw — Appropriate; suitable; proper

အမျိုးအစား

a myo a sa — Type; kind; category; sort

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not; not; negation of 'to be'

ပြန်

pyan — Again; back; to return

လိုချင်

lo chin — To want; to desire; to wish for

ရုံသာ

youn tha — Just; merely; only

ဟုတ်ကဲ့၊

hout kè — Yes; that is correct (polite)

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative)

သေတ္တာ

thay hta — Box; case; chest

ဟုတ်

hout — Yes; correct; to be true

အမည်ရ

a myi ya — Named; called; having the name

သူ

thu — He; she; that person

လက်ဆောင်

let saung — Gift; present; souvenir

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit pyi — Being; having become; and so

သင်က

thín ga — You (subject emphasis marker)

အမည်

a myi — Name; title

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is

သူကို

thu ko — Him; her (object marker)

မသိ

ma thi — Do not know; unaware

ပြောခဲ့

pyaw khe — Said; spoke (past tense)

သည်။

thì — Sentence-final declarative particle

ကောင်းပြီ၊

kaun pyi — Good; alright; very well then

သင်

thín — You (second person pronoun)

သိချင်

thi chin — Want to know; curious about

လျှင်

shyin — If; when; conditional particle

အကြီးအမ

a kyi a ma — Serious matter; important affair

ဖြစ်ပေသည်။

phyit pe thì — Indeed is; truly is (emphatic)

ဟုတ်ကဲ့။

hout kè — Yes; indeed; correct (statement end)

သူမ

thu ma — She; her (female third person)

အလွန်

a lun — Very; extremely; exceedingly

ချစ်စဖွယ်

chit sa phwe — Lovable; adorable; charming

ကောင်းသော

kaun thaw — Good; fine; pleasant (attributive)

အမျိုးသမီး

a myo tha mi — Woman; female; lady

ကြီး

kyi — Big; large; great; elder

လည်း

lé — Also; too; as well; even

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

နေထိုင်

ne htine — To live; to reside; to stay

ပေး

pe — To give; to provide

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional verb particle

ပါ၊

pa — Polite particle with pause

ဆိုဖာ

so pha — Sofa; couch

နောက်ဘက်

nout bet — Behind; rear; back side

သို့

thó — To; toward; in the direction of

ဆုတ်ခွာ

sout kwa — To retreat; to withdraw; to step back

လျက်။

lyet — While doing; continuous action particle

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; inclusive marker

လျက်

lyet — While; in the act of (continuative)

မည်သို့

myi thó — How; in what way

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; therefore

ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို

ko ko ko — Oneself; yourself; reflexive pronoun

ကလေးငယ်

ka le ngwe — Young child; little one; infant

ခေါ်ဝေါ်

khaw waw — To call; to name; to refer to

သနည်း။

tha né — Question particle; why; how is it

ရင်း။

yin — While; by means of; original source

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit chin — Love; affection; the act of loving

တကွ။

ta kwa — Together; along with; jointly

ဆီသို့

si thó — Toward; in the direction of

ရွေ့လျား

ywe lyah — To move; to shift; to glide

ကာ

ka — While doing; continuative action particle

ဒူးထောက်

du dout — To kneel; to go down on one's knees

ထိုင်

htine — To sit; to sit down

ချစ်လှစွာ

chit hla zwa — Dearest; most lovingly; affectionately

သူငယ်ချင်း၊

thu ngwe chin — Friend; close companion

ဘာ

bha — What; what kind of

မျှ

hmya — As much as; equally; only

တချို့

ta cho — Some; a few; certain ones

အရပ်

a yat — Height; stature; place; direction

ရှည်

shi — Long; tall; lengthy

ကြသည်၊

kya thì — Plural verb marker; they do

မရှည်

ma shi — Not long; not tall; short

ကြပါ။

kya pa — Polite plural verb ending

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; imperative marker

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tine — Oneself; personally; by oneself

ဆုံးဖြတ်

zone phyat — To decide; to determine; to resolve

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission; right; opportunity

သည့်

thì — Relative clause particle (attributive)

ကိစ္စ

kit sa — Matter; affair; issue; case

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — Is; to be; it is the case

သေချာ

the cha — Certain; sure; definite

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each; throughout; all

အတိအကျ

a ti a kya — Exactly; precisely; accurately

တူညီ

tu nyi — Same; identical; equal; alike

သင့်သည်

thín thì — Should; ought to; is appropriate

ထင်မြင်

htin myin — To think; to opine; to believe

နေပုံ

ne pone — Appearance; way of being; manner

ရသည်

ya thì — Can; is able to; to get

လှသည်

hla thì — Is beautiful; is pretty; is lovely