Collocations ေတြနဲ႔ ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္သံုးတတ္ေစဖို႔ (ေဒါက္တာစိုးသန္း)

Collocations ေတြနဲ႔ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္သံုးတတ္ေစဖို႔

A collocation is a combination of words that are commonly used together.
collocation ကို 'စကားလံုးမ်ားကို ဆီေလွ်ာ္စြာတြဲသံုးျခင္း' လို႔ ဘာသာျပန္ရမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။

အဂၤလိပ္စာမွာ
I do my homework. ဆိုရင္ မွန္တယ္။
I make my homework. ဆိုရင္ေတာ့မွားတယ္။

make နဲ႔ do ဟာ ျမန္မာလိုဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ျပဳလုပ္သည္...လို႔အဓိပၸါယ္ရေပမဲ့ make homework ဟာ wrong collocation ျဖစ္တယ္။ Native speakers ေတြကေတာ့ natural collocation ျဖစ္တဲ့ do homework လို႔သာ သံုးၾကတာျဖစ္လို႔ပါ။ အလားတူပဲ do the shopping သာမွန္ၿပီး make the shopping ဆိုရင္ မွားတာေပါ့။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ Collocation နဲ႔ Colligation တို႔အေၾကာင္းကို ေဆာင္းပါးအရွည္ေရးေပးခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ အဂၤလိပ္စာ အသံုးႂကြယ္ဝလာေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားၾကတဲ့အခါမွာ ေဝါဟာရေတြ vocabulary words ေတြကို တစ္လံုးခ်င္းအလြတ္က်က္ၾကတဲ့နည္းဟာ ေဝါဟာရႂကြယ္လာေအာင္ စကားလံုးေတြပိုသိလာေအာင္သာ ကူညီေပးႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္တယ္။ စာလံုးမ်ားမ်ားသိေတာ့ စာဖတ္ရင္ပိုနားလည္ႏိုင္မွာေတာ့ ေသခ်ာတာေပါ့။ သို႔ေသာ္ အဂၤလိပ္လို သြက္လက္မွန္ကန္စြာေျပာႏိုင္ဖို႔ ေရးႏိုင္ဖို႔ကေတာ့ words in isolation ေလ့လာထားတဲ့ အဆင့္နဲ႔ မလံုေလာက္ပါဘူး။ 

ဆိုပါေတာ့...negotiation ဆိုတာ ေစ့စပ္ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္း လို႔အဓိပၸါယ္သိထားတယ္။ ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္ အဆင့္ျမင့္ျမင့္ေလး မွန္ကန္ေအာင္ေရးတတ္ ေျပာတတ္ဖို႔က်ေတာ့ negotiation တစ္လံုးတည္း သိထားရံုနဲ႔ အလုပ္မျဖစ္ေသးဘူး။ သူနဲ႔ အတူတြဲဖက္ၿပီးသံုးရတဲ့ စကားလံုးေတြနဲ႔အတူ phrase ပုဒ္စုအလိုက္သိထားမွ ေျပာခ်င္တဲ့လိုရင္းကို ခ်က္က်က်ေျပာႏိုင္ ေရးႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္တယ္။
ဥပမာ...
the firsr round of negotiaions
enter into a negotiation
break off negotiations with someone
The matter is still under negotiation.
ဒါေတြအားလံုးဟာ negotiation နဲ႔တြဲဖက္သံုးရတဲ့ အသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ collocations တခ်ိဳ႕ေပါ့။

ဒီေတာ့ ဒီမွာ စာဖတ္သူကို ေပးခ်င္တဲ့ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ message က... ေဝါဟာရေတြကို တစ္လံုးခ်င္း words in isolation အလြတ္မွတ္တဲ့ အဆင့္မွာသာ ရပ္မေနပါနဲ႔။ တစ္ဆင့္ထပ္တက္ၿပီး အဲဒီ vocabulary word ကို ဝါက်ထဲမွာ အသံုးျပဳပံု၊ သူ႔ကို အသံုးခ်တဲ့ usages ေတြ၊ collocations ေတြကိုပါ တစ္ပါတည္း ကူးမွတ္ၿပီးေလ့လာႏိုင္ဖို႔လိုပါတယ္။ Just learning the meanings of the words in isolation is not enough. You should also learn the words as they are used in context. လို႔ထပ္ေလာင္းတိုက္တြန္းခ်င္ပါတယ္။

ကဲ..ေအာက္မွာ အသံုးမ်ားလို႔ သိထားရမဲ့ collocations ေလးေတြ စုေဆာင္းထားတဲ့ထဲက လြယ္ကူတဲ့ အခ်ိဳ႕ကိုေဝငွလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အတြဲလိုက္ အလြတ္မွတ္ထားၿပီး အဲဒီအတိုင္း ျပန္အသံုးခ်ႏိုင္မွ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕ အဂၤလိပ္စာဟာ native speakers ေတြ သူတို႔ရဲ႕စကားကို အသံုးျပဳတဲ့အတိုင္း natural speech ျဖစ္မွာပါ။

🚩Collocations with the verb "do"
- Do me a favor.
- do the cooking
- do the housework
- do the shopping
- do the washing up
- Do your best.
- Do your hair.

🚩Collocations with the verb "make"
- make a difference
- make a mess
- make a mistake
- make a noise
- make an effort
- make money
- make progress
- make room
- make trouble

🚩Collocations with the verb "have"
- have a good time
- have a bath
- have a drink
- have a haircut
- have a holiday
- have a problem
- have a relationship
- have lunch

🚩Collocations with the verb "take"
- take a break
- take a chance
- take a look
- take a rest
- take a seat
- take a taxi
- take an exam
- take notes
- take someone's place

🚩Collocations with the verb "break"
- break the law
- break a leg
- break a promise
- break a record
- break someone's heart
- break the ice
- break the news to someone
- break the rules

🚩Collocations with the verb "catch"
- catch the bus
- catch a ball
- catch a cold
- catch a thief
- catch fire
- catch sight of
- catch someone's attention
- catch someone's eye
- catch the flu

🚩Collocations with the verb "pay"
- pay respect
- pay a fine
- pay attention
- pay by credit card
- pay cash
- pay interest
- pay someone a visit
- pay the bill
- pay the price

🚩Collocations with the verb "keep"
- keep the change
- keep a promise
- keep a secret
- keep an appointment
- keep calm
- keep in touch
- keep quiet
- keep someone's place

🚩Collocations with the verb "save"
- save yourself the trouble
- save electricity
- save energy
- save money
- save someone's life
- save time

🚩Collocations with the verb "go"
- go bald
- go abroad
- go overseas
- go astray
- go bad
- go bankrupt
- go blind
- go crazy
- go fishing
- go mad
- go missing
- go online
- go out of business
- go quiet
- go sailing
- go to war

🚩Collocations with the verb "come"
- come under attack
- come close
- come direct
- come early
- come first
- come into view
- come last 
- come late
- come on time
- come prepared
- come right back
- come to a decision
- come to an agreement
- come to an end
- come to a standstill
- come to terms with
- come to a total of

🚩Collocations with the verb "get"
- get the sack
- get a life
- get a job
- get a shock
- get angry
- get divorced
- get drunk
- get frightened
- get home
- get lost
- get married
- get permission
- get ready
- get started
- get the impression
- get upset
- get wet
- get worried

ေရးတာ အရမ္းရွည္သြားေတာ့မွာမို႔ ေနာက္ post က်မွ အျခားအသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ Adjective တခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕ collocations မ်ားကို ဆက္တင္ဆက္ေပးပါ့မယ္။

With love,
Dr.Soe Than
November 4, 2017