Collocations ေတြနဲ႔ ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္သံုးတတ္ေစဖို႔ (၂) (ေဒါက္တာစိုးသန္း)

Collocations ေတြနဲ႔ ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္သံုးတတ္ေစဖို႔ (၂)

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

ဟိုတစ္ေန႔က Collocations ေတြအေၾကာင္း အေသးစိတ္ရွင္းျပၿပီးခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ အဲဒီေဆာင္းပါးထဲမွာ အသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ အလြယ္စား Verbs ကေလးေတြျဖစ္ၾကတဲ့ "do, make, have, take, break, catch, pay, keep, save, get, come, go" စသည္တို႔ရဲ႕ ပံုမွန္တြဲသံုးတတ္ၾကတဲ့ collocations ေတြကိုေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔အားလံုးဟာ Verb ေတြျဖစ္ၾကလို႔ စာသင္သားတို႔စိတ္ထဲမွာ Verb တစ္မ်ိဳးတည္းကိုသာ collocation ေတြကိုဂ႐ုျပဳမွတ္သားသင့္တယ္လို႔ အထင္လြဲ အမွတ္မွားမွာစိုးလို႔ ဒီေဆာင္းပါးမွာ ခပ္လြယ္လြယ္နဲ႔ အသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ Nouns တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ (time, money နဲ႔ love) နဲ႔ Adjectives တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ (complete, big, great, large, deep, heavy, high, low နဲ႔ strong) တို႔ရဲ႕ collocations အခ်ိဳ႕ကို ဆက္လက္ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္။

🚩Collocations related to "time"

- bang on time
- dead on time
- spend time
- waste time
- save time
- make time for
- kill time
- pass the time
- spare time
- take one's time
- on time
- just in time
- have a rough/hard time
- It's about time.
- pressed for time
- run out of time
- stall for time
- take time off
- make time for

🚩Collocations related to "money"

- easy money
- hard-earned money
- make money
- earn money
- borrow money
- lend money
- retirement money
- pocket money
- tea money
- protection money
- dirty money
- donate money
- owe money
- money comes from something
- money goes to something
- money can't buy happiness
- bet money on something
- get your money's worth
- on the money
- throw money at something

🚩Collocations related to "love"

- genuine love
- unrequited love
- passionate love
- first love
- parental love
- platonic love
- brotherly love
- feel love
- declare love
- find true love
- be in love
- fall in love
- return love
- fall out of love
- make love
- love affair
- love life
- love letter
- love story
- an act of love
- deeply/madly/hopelessly in love
- love at first sight
- the love of someone's life
- head over heels in love

🚩Absolute/ Complete/ Total/ Utter

- absolute agony
- complete astonishment
- total bliss
- an utter catastrophe
- absolute despair
- total ecstasy
- utter fury
- a complete idiot
- utter loathing
- total madness

🚩Big
Happenings
- a big decision
- a big disappointment
- a big improvement
- a big mistake
- a big surprise
Types of Persons
- a big eater
- a big dreamer
- a big drinker
- a big spender
- a big talker

🚩Great
- great admiration
- great anger
- in great detail
- a great disappointment
- great enjoyment
- great excitement
- a great failure
- great fun
- great happiness
- great joy
- at great length
- a great number (of)
- great power
- great pride
- a great quantity (of)
- great sensitivity
- great skill
- great strength
- great understanding
- great wealth

🚩Large

- a large amount
- a large number (of)
- a large population
- a large proportion
- a large quantity
- a large scale

🚩Deep

- deep depression
- deep devotion
- a deep feeling
- deep pockets
- deep sleep
- in deep thought
- in deep trouble

🚩Heavy

- a heavy drinker
- heavy rain
- a heavy sleeper
- a heavy smoker
- heavy snow
- heavy traffic

🚩High - Low

- high/ low cost
- high/ low density
- high/ low energy
- high/ low esteem
- a high/ low expectation (of)
- a high/ low level (of)
- a high/ low opinion of someone/something
- high/ low pressure
- a high/ low price
- high/ low quality
- high/ low speed

🚩Strong

- strong criticism
- strong denial
- a strong feeling
- a strong opinion about something
- a strong sense of
- a strong smell
- a strong taste

ဒီမွာ စုေဆာင္းေပးထားတဲ့ collocations ေတြဟာ အျမည္းသေဘာမွ်သာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္ အဆင့္ျမင့္ျမင့္ တတ္ကၽြမ္းခ်င္သူေတြ စိတ္ဝင္စားသူေတြအေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ collocation dictionary ကိုဝယ္ၿပီး ေလ့လာသင့္ပါတယ္။ ေဝါဟာရတစ္ခုကို သိၿပီး သူနဲ႔ တြဲဖက္အသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ usages, expressions, idioms ေတြကိုပါသိလာၿပီး မိမိရဲ႕ command of the language ဟာလည္း ပိုမိုခိုင္မာလာေစမွာျဖစ္လို႔ Collocation ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္းအရာကို အမွတ္တမဲ့မျဖစ္ေနေစရန္ မသိေသးသူေတြ သတိထားမိလာေစရန္အတြက္ ဒီေဆာင္းပါးကို language awareness raising exercise အေနျဖင့္ေရးသားလိုက္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

With love,
Dr.Soe Than
November 7, 2017