Verbs Flashcards
To be (most common) More 1st person, but used interchangeably with Kue
Bpen
To be (is am are) to describe where someone is
Yoo
To be
Used more 3rd person and to describe another person or thing
Kue
Run
Weeng
Work
Tam-nang
Eat
Kin/gin
Visit (someone far away)
Travel
Bai Theaw
Visit ( someone you see often)
Bai haw
Visit (if live far away, haven’t seen for a long time, or in the hospital)
Yem
Sleep
Non
Walk
Duen
Walk (to describe comfortable with walking longer distances)
Bai de Lin
Play
Leng
Shopping
Sue kong
Drink
Kin (same as eat)
OR
Dhum
Go
Gone
Bpai
Bpai Laew
Simple sentence structure
Subject-verb-object
Kerri bpai Suan chatuchalk
(Suan=market
More complex sentence order
Subject verb object adjective classifier
Kerri sue (buy) Suae (shirt) see khoa (white) nung fua ( classifier for countable things)
Have
Mee
Pray
Ah ti than
Write
Keain
Clean
Ta kaum sa add
Have been, have done (in past or before).
Kui