2a - Basic Burmese Flashcards by Joshua Sensiba

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Min-gla-ba (မင်္ဂလာပ)

A

Hello

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Ba (ပါ)

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Polite marker

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Hsa-ya (ဆရာ)

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Teacher/Master of Trade

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Hsa-ya-dau (ဆရာတော်)

A

Venerable Monk

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Hsa-ya-ma (ဆရာမ)

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Female Teacher/Female master of trade

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Hote (ဟုတ်)

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Yes

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Koun (ကောင်း)

A

Good

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La (လား)

A

Question Marker with Yes or No Answer

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Nay-koun (နေကောင်း)

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To feel well

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Nay-koun la (နေကောင်းလား)

A

How are you?

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Ja (ကြ)

A

Plural Marker

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Nay-koun ja la (နေကောင်း

ကြလား)

A

How is everyone?

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Yeare (ရဲ့)

A

Marker which shows concern/doubt

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Hote yeare la (ဟုတ်ရဲ့လား)

A

Are you sure?

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Nay-koun ja yeare la (နေကောင်းကြရဲ့လား)

A

Is everyone okay?

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Ba-deare (ပါတယ)

A

Affirmative

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Hote ba-deare (ဟုတ်ပါတယ်)

A

Yes, that’s right!

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Sa (စား)

A

To eat

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Sa-koun (စားကောင်း)

A

Delicious

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Sa-koun yeare la (စားကောင်းရဲ့လား)

A

Was the food delicious?

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Koun ba-deare (ကောင်းပါတယ်)

A

Yes, it was good

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Beare leare (ဘယ်လဲ)

A

Where are you going?

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Pyan la (ပြန်လာ)

A

To come back

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Gah (က)

A

From

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Beare gah pyan la leare (ဘယ်ကပြန်လာလဲ)

A

Where did you come from?

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Tway (တွေ့)

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To meet

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Yah ta (ရတာ)

A

Able to

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Wun-tha (ဝမ်းသာ)

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To be glad/happy

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Tway yah ta wun-tha ba deare (တွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ်)

A

Nice to meet you!

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Kyay zu tin ba deare (ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ)

A

Thank you!

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Leare (လဲ)

A

Question Marker

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Beare (ဘယ်)

A

Where

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Ba (ဘာ)

A

What/why

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Ma hote bu (မဟုတ်ဘူး)

A

Wrong!

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Hote deare (ဟုတ်တယ်)

A

Yes, that’s true

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Thay (သေး)

A

Not yet

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Ma hote thay bu (မဟုတ်သေးဘူး)

A

Still not right

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Ma lo thay bu (မလိုသေးဘူး)

A

I don’t need it yet

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Hma (မှာ)

A

Location indicator

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Beare-hma leare (ဘယ်မှာလဲ)

A

Where is it

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Ba leare ()

A

What?

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Chin (ချင)

A

To want

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Ba lo chin leare (ဘာ လိုချင်လဲ)

A

What do you want?

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Ba sa ja ma leare (ဘာစားကြမလဲ)

A

What shall we eat?

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Loat (လုပ်)

A

To do

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Ba loat chin leare (ဘာလုပ်ချင်လဲ)

A

What do you want to do?

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Ba loat ja ma leare (ဘာလုပ်ကြမလဲ)

A

What shall we do?

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Da ba leare (ဒါဘာလဲ)

A

What is this?

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Thwa chin la (သွားချင်လား)

A

Do you want to go?

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Ma thwa chin bu (မသွားချင်ဘူး)

A

I don’t want to go.

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Ma thwa chin thay bu (မသွားချင်သေးဘူး)

A

I don’t want to go yet.

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Thwa chin deare (သွားချင်တယ်)

A

I want to go.

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Thwa ma la (သွားမလား)

A

Are you going?

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Thwa meare (သွားမယ်)

A

I am going.

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Lo (လို)

A

To need

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Lo la (လိုလား)

A

Do you need it?

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Lo chin la (လိုချင်လား)

A

Do you want it?

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Lo deare (လိုတယ်)

A

I need it.

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Ma lo bu (မလိုဘူး)

A

No need.

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Lout (dလောက)

A

Approximate Amount

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Beare-lout leare (ဘယ်လောက်လဲ)

A

How much?

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De-lout (ဒီလောက်)

A

This much.

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Beare-lout lo-chin leare (ဘယ်လောက်လိုချင်လဲ)

A

How much do you want?

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De-lout lo chin deare (ဒီလောက်လိုချင်တယ်)

A

I want this much.

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Lout la (လောက်လား)

A

Enough (Of a noun)?

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Ma lout bu (မလောက်ဘူး)

A

Not enough (Of a noun).

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Lout deare (လောက်တယ်)

A

Yes, enough (Of a noun).

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Lout byi la (လောက်ပလား)

A

Enough (Of an action)?

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Ma lout thay bu (မလောက်သေးဘူး)

A

Still not enough.

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Lout byi (လောက်ပ)

A

Enough.