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Lesson 4 of 10
Counting to ten in Burmese
One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Burmese words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Burmese phrases in this lesson
- တစ်tit
- One
- နှစ်hnit
- Two
- သုံးthone
- Three
- လေးlay
- Four
- ငါးnga
- Five
- ခြောက်chauk
- Six
- ခုနစ်khun-NIT
- Seven
- ရှစ်shit
- Eight
- ကိုးko
- Nine
- တစ်ဆယ်ta-SEH
- Ten
Counting objects adds a classifier: တစ်ခု (ta-KHU), one item.
Nine is the lucky number in Myanmar.
Myanmar has its own digits, ၁ to ၁၀, used on prices and bus numbers alongside ordinary ones.