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Learn Burmese ten words at a time

မြန်မာ

Ten games of ten words: the hundred most useful Burmese words and expressions you could live on for years, from greetings and ordering food to numbers, small talk and getting around. Play a lesson in the box beside its words, and the next one starts itself.

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Burmese · Lesson 1 of 10

Greetings and politeness

Hello, thanks, please: the ten openers everything else builds on.

မင်္ဂလာပါmin-ga-LA-ba
Hello
ဟေးHEH
Hi
မနက်ခင်းမင်္ဂလာma-NET-chin min-ga-LA
Good morning
ညဥ့်မင်္ဂလာNYA min-ga-LA
Good night
အများကြီးကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်a-MYA-JEE kyay-ZOO-tin-ba-DEH
Thank you very much
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်kyay-ZOO-tin-ba-DEH
Thanks
ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်JO-so-ba-DEH
You're welcome
ကျေးဇူးပြု၍kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
Please
ခွင့်လွှတ်ပါKHWIN-hlut-pa
Excuse me
သွားတော့မယ်THA-daw-MEH
Goodbye
Two people shaking hands across a cafe table
Greetings and politeness
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Burmese · Lesson 2 of 10

Order anything by pointing

One beer please, one of these please, the bill: survive any menu.

ビလုံ၏ တစ်ခွက် ကျေးဇူးပြု၍bee-LONE ta-KWAIK kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
One beer, please
ဒီလိုတစ်ခု ကျေးဇူးပြု၍dee-LO ta-KHU kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
One of these, please
ကော်ဖီ တစ်ခွက် ကျေးဇူးပြု၍kaw-FEE ta-KWAIK kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
One coffee, please
နှစ်ခု ကျေးဇူးပြု၍NEET-khu kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
Two, please
နောက်တစ်ခု ထပ်မံ ကျေးဇူးပြု၍NOUT-ta-KHU THUP-mun kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
One more, please
ဒါ ဘယ်လောက် ကျသလဲda BAY-luck CHEE-la-deh
How much is it?
ငွေခွန်ထုတ်ပါNGWAY-khun THOUT-ba
The bill, please
ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ လုပ်ခွင့်ပြု၍kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway LOO-KHWIN-pyu-yway
May I...?
ချီးယားစ်chee-YARS
Cheers!
နေကောင်းပါစေnay-KAUNG-ba-zay
Bless you
A coffee counter under chalked menu boards and an ORDER HERE sign
Order anything by pointing
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Burmese · Lesson 3 of 10

Yes, no and the essentials

The tiny words that carry half of every conversation.

ဟုတ်HOOT
Yes
မဟုတ်ma-HOOT
No
အိုကေo-KAY
Okay
ဒါ ကောင်းပြီda KAUN-PREE
Sure, no problem
ကျွန်တော် သိမ်းလိုkyun-DAW THAY-lo
I don't know
မနားလည်ပါma-NAR-LEET-ba
I don't understand
အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ ပြောတယ်လားAIN-glit-za PRAW-deh-LA
Do you speak English?
အနည်းငယ်a-NEET-NGAY
A little
ပကတ်လည်း ကောင်းတယ်pa-KAT-LEH KAUN-deh
Of course
အခြေအငြင်း မရှိပါa-CHET-a-NYIN ma-SHEE-ba
Everything is fine
A dictionary open at a page of definitions
Yes, no and the essentials
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Burmese · Lesson 4 of 10

Numbers and money

Counting, prices, paying by card or cash.

တစ်TAH
One
နှစ်NEET
Two
သုံးTHOON
Three
လေးLAY
Four
ဆယ်SHAY
Ten
ငါးဆယ်NGAH-SHAY
Fifty
တစ်ရာta-YA
One hundred
ကျပ်CHAP
Kyat
ကဒ်ဖြင့်KAT-pyin
By card
အငွေခြင်းa-NGWAY-CHIN
In cash
Five stacks of coins standing in a rising row
Numbers and money
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Burmese · Lesson 5 of 10

At the supermarket

Bread, milk, a bag, nothing else thanks: the checkout routine.

ပအိုးpa-O
Bread
နို့NO
Milk
ကျည်သေတ္တာCHEE-thay-DA
Cheese
ရေYAY
Water
အိတ် လိုအပ်တယ်လားait-LO-ap-deh-LA
A bag?
ဒါ ရှိလားda-SHEE-LA
Do you have...?
ဘယ်မှာ ရှိတယ်BAY-ma SHEE-deh
Where is...?
ဒီလိုတစ်ခုdee-LO-ta-KHU
This one
အခြား မလိုအပ်ပါa-CHAR-ma-LO-ap-ba
Nothing else
ကောင်းသည့်နေ့KAUN-thee-NAY
Have a nice day
A supermarket aisle between stacked shelves and a chilled cabinet
At the supermarket
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Burmese · Lesson 6 of 10

Cafe and restaurant

A table, the menu, a compliment to the kitchen.

စားပွဲ နှစ်ခုအတွက်zA-pweh-neet-KHU-a-TWIT
A table for two
စာရင်း ထုတ်ပါza-YONE-thout-ba
The menu, please
ကော်ဖီ စိမ်းတစ်ခွက်kaw-FEE-sin-ta-KWAIK
One espresso
စပ်ရိုးသီးဝိုင်း တစ်ခွက်SAP-YO-thee-WINE-ta-KWAIK
A glass of wine
ဘီယာBEE-ya
Draft beer
ရှမ်းခါးစီSHAN-kha-ZEE
Shan noodles
အရသာ ကောင်းတယ်a-ya-THA-kaun-deh
It's delicious
ရေခဲ မထည့်YAY-khai-ma-THIT
Without ice
ကိုယ်ယူသွားမည်KO-yu-THA-meit
To take away
ကျန်ငွေ အပ်ပါCHAN-ngway-AP-ba
Keep the change
A stained glass lamp hanging over a table in a restaurant
Cafe and restaurant
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Burmese · Lesson 7 of 10

Small talk and neighbors

How are you, nice day, see you soon: superficial and proud of it.

သင့်ရာ အနေအထိုင် ကောင်းလားthin-YA-a-nay-a-THONE-kaun-LA
How are you? (polite)
နေကောင်းလားnay-KAUN-LA
How are you? (casual)
ကောင်းတယ်KAUN-deh
I'm fine
နင်လည်းnin-LAY
And you?
ဘာ ဖြစ်သလဲba-PRIT-tha-leh
What's new?
ရာသီ ကောင်းပြီYA-thee-KAUN-PREE
Nice weather, huh?
နောက်ပိုင်း တွေ့မယ်NOUT-PINE-TWET-meh
See you soon
ညနေ ကောင်းသည့် အချိန်nya-nay-KAUN-thee-a-chin
Have a nice evening
မိသားစု အဖြေ ပြောပြma-tha-za-a-PWAY-praw-pya
Say hi to the family
ကောင်းသည့် အချိန် အများအပြားKAUN-thee-a-chin-a-MYA-a-pya
All the best
Two older people stopped for a conversation on the street
Small talk and neighbors
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Burmese · Lesson 8 of 10

Getting around

Left, right, the station, one ticket, where is the toilet.

အိမ်သာ ဘယ်မှာ ရှိတယ်ain-tha-BAY-ma-SHEE-deh
Where is the toilet?
ဘယ်ဖက်BAY-phaik
Left
ညာဖက်NYA-phaik
Right
ဖြောင့်သွားPYIN-THA
Straight ahead
ဒီအရပ်dee-a-yap
Here
အဲဒီအရပ်ai-di-a-yap
There
ဘတ်စ်ကားbat-KA
Bus
မဲတ္တရထာ ဘူးmet-ta-ya-thaw-BOO
Train station
လက်မှတ် တစ်ခွက် ကျေးဇူးပြု၍lat-mit-ta-kwaik-kyay-ZOO-pyu-yway
One ticket, please
ဒီမှာ ရပ်သွားပါdee-ma-rap-tha-ba
Stop here, please
The tiled edge of an underground platform running off into the tunnel
Getting around
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Burmese · Lesson 9 of 10

Time and days

Today, tomorrow, later, the weekend.

ယနေ့ya-NAY
Today
မနက်ဖြန်ma-NET-pyin
Tomorrow
မနေ့ကma-NAY-ka
Yesterday
အခုအခါa-KHU-a-kha
Now
နောက်ပိုင်းNOUT-PINE
Later
အခုနစ်နာရီ ဘယ်လောက်ဖြစ်တယ်a-KHU-nit-NA-yee-BAY-luck-prit-deh
What time is it?
တနင်္လta-nin-LA
Monday
စနေsa-nay
Saturday
တနင်္ဆုန်းta-nin-SOON
Sunday
စနေ တနင်္ဆုန်းsa-nay-ta-nin-SOON
The weekend
A round clock alone on a bare wall
Time and days
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Burmese · Lesson 10 of 10

Help and emergencies

The words you hope to never need.

အကူအညီa-KU-a-nyi
Help!
ဆရာဝန်ခေါ်သည်sa-ya-wun-khaw-thee
Call a doctor
ရဲyai
Police
ဖေ့ါယ်phaY
Pharmacy
ဆေးရုံsay-yoon
Hospital
ကျွန်တော် လမ်းမှားသွားတယ်kyun-DAW-lun-ma-THA-deh
I'm lost
ကျွန်တော် ကိုယ်အတည်း ခံစားတယ်kyun-DAW-ko-a-tit-khun-sa-deh
I don't feel well
ကျွန်တော်ရဲ့ ဖုန်းkyun-DAW-yay-PHON
My phone
ခိုးယူသွားတယ်KHO-yu-tha-deh
It was stolen
အရေး အ急ဖြစ်တယ်a-way-a-jo-prit-deh
It's urgent
A lit green pharmacy cross hanging over a street
Help and emergencies
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