2a - Basic Burmese

Question 1

Min-gla-ba (မင်္ဂလာပ)

Answer 1

Hello

Question 2

Ba (ပါ)

Answer 2

Polite marker

Question 3

Hsa-ya (ဆရာ)

Answer 3

Teacher/Master of Trade

Question 4

Hsa-ya-dau (ဆရာတော်)

Answer 4

Venerable Monk

Question 5

Hsa-ya-ma (ဆရာမ)

Answer 5

Female Teacher/Female master of trade

Question 6

Hote (ဟုတ်)

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Koun (ကောင်း)

Answer 7

Good

Question 8

La (လား)

Answer 8

Question Marker with Yes or No Answer

Question 9

Nay-koun (နေကောင်း)

Answer 9

To feel well

Question 10

Nay-koun la (နေကောင်းလား)

Answer 10

How are you?

Question 11

Ja (ကြ)

Answer 11

Plural Marker

Question 12

Nay-koun ja la (နေကောင်း

ကြလား)

Answer 12

How is everyone?

Question 13

Yeare (ရဲ့)

Answer 13

Marker which shows concern/doubt

Question 14

Hote yeare la (ဟုတ်ရဲ့လား)

Answer 14

Are you sure?

Question 15

Nay-koun ja yeare la (နေကောင်းကြရဲ့လား)

Answer 15

Is everyone okay?

Question 16

Ba-deare (ပါတယ)

Answer 16

Affirmative

Question 17

Hote ba-deare (ဟုတ်ပါတယ်)

Answer 17

Yes, that’s right!

Question 18

Sa (စား)

Answer 18

To eat

Question 19

Sa-koun (စားကောင်း)

Answer 19

Delicious

Question 20

Sa-koun yeare la (စားကောင်းရဲ့လား)

Answer 20

Was the food delicious?

Question 21

Koun ba-deare (ကောင်းပါတယ်)

Answer 21

Yes, it was good

Question 22

Beare leare (ဘယ်လဲ)

Answer 22

Where are you going?

Question 23

Pyan la (ပြန်လာ)

Answer 23

To come back

Question 24

Gah (က)

Answer 24

From

Question 25

Beare gah pyan la leare (ဘယ်ကပြန်လာလဲ)

Answer 25

Where did you come from?

Question 26

Tway (တွေ့)

Answer 26

To meet

Question 27

Yah ta (ရတာ)

Answer 27

Able to

Question 28

Wun-tha (ဝမ်းသာ)

Answer 28

To be glad/happy

Question 29

Tway yah ta wun-tha ba deare (တွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ်)

Answer 29

Nice to meet you!

Question 30

Kyay zu tin ba deare (ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ)

Answer 30

Thank you!

Question 31

Leare (လဲ)

Answer 31

Question Marker

Question 32

Beare (ဘယ်)

Answer 32

Where

Question 33

Ba (ဘာ)

Answer 33

What/why

Question 34

Ma hote bu (မဟုတ်ဘူး)

Answer 34

Wrong!

Question 35

Hote deare (ဟုတ်တယ်)

Answer 35

Yes, that's true

Question 36

Thay (သေး)

Answer 36

Not yet

Question 37

Ma hote thay bu (မဟုတ်သေးဘူး)

Answer 37

Still not right

Question 38

Ma lo thay bu (မလိုသေးဘူး)

Answer 38

I don't need it yet

Question 39

Hma (မှာ)

Answer 39

Location indicator

Question 40

Beare-hma leare (ဘယ်မှာလဲ)

Answer 40

Where is it

Question 41

Ba leare ()

Answer 41

What?

Question 42

Chin (ချင)

Answer 42

To want

Question 43

Ba lo chin leare (ဘာ လိုချင်လဲ)

Answer 43

What do you want?

Question 44

Ba sa ja ma leare (ဘာစားကြမလဲ)

Answer 44

What shall we eat?

Question 45

Loat (လုပ်)

Answer 45

To do

Question 46

Ba loat chin leare (ဘာလုပ်ချင်လဲ)

Answer 46

What do you want to do?

Question 47

Ba loat ja ma leare (ဘာလုပ်ကြမလဲ)

Answer 47

What shall we do?

Question 48

Da ba leare (ဒါဘာလဲ)

Answer 48

What is this?

Question 49

Thwa chin la (သွားချင်လား)

Answer 49

Do you want to go?

Question 50

Ma thwa chin bu (မသွားချင်ဘူး)

Answer 50

I don't want to go.

Question 51

Ma thwa chin thay bu (မသွားချင်သေးဘူး)

Answer 51

I don't want to go yet.

Question 52

Thwa chin deare (သွားချင်တယ်)

Answer 52

I want to go.

Question 53

Thwa ma la (သွားမလား)

Answer 53

Are you going?

Question 54

Thwa meare (သွားမယ်)

Answer 54

I am going.

Question 55

Lo (လို)

Answer 55

To need

Question 56

Lo la (လိုလား)

Answer 56

Do you need it?

Question 57

Lo chin la (လိုချင်လား)

Answer 57

Do you want it?

Question 58

Lo deare (လိုတယ်)

Answer 58

I need it.

Question 59

Ma lo bu (မလိုဘူး)

Answer 59

No need.

Question 60

Lout (dလောက)

Answer 60

Approximate Amount

Question 61

Beare-lout leare (ဘယ်လောက်လဲ)

Answer 61

How much?

Question 62

De-lout (ဒီလောက်)

Answer 62

This much.

Question 63

Beare-lout lo-chin leare (ဘယ်လောက်လိုချင်လဲ)

Answer 63

How much do you want?

Question 64

De-lout lo chin deare (ဒီလောက်လိုချင်တယ်)

Answer 64

I want this much.

Question 65

Lout la (လောက်လား)

Answer 65

Enough (Of a noun)?

Question 66

Ma lout bu (မလောက်ဘူး)

Answer 66

Not enough (Of a noun).

Question 67

Lout deare (လောက်တယ်)

Answer 67

Yes, enough (Of a noun).

Question 68

Lout byi la (လောက်ပလား)

Answer 68

Enough (Of an action)?

Question 69

Ma lout thay bu (မလောက်သေးဘူး)

Answer 69

Still not enough.

Question 70

Lout byi (လောက်ပ)

Answer 70

Enough.