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Lesson 9 of 10

Time and days in Burmese

Now, later, tomorrow, what time it opens and one moment please. 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.

The Yangon River in Myanmar
Time and days
10 words ¡ 20 seconds each ¡ 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
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All 10 Burmese phrases in this lesson

အခုa-KHU
Now
နောက်မှnau-HMA
Later
ဒီနေ့di-NEH
Today
မနက်ဖြန်ma-NET-phyan
Tomorrow
ဒီညdi-NYA
Tonight
ဘယ်တော့လဲbeh-DAW-leh
When?
ဘယ်အချိန် ဖွင့်လဲbeh a-CHAIN PHWIN-leh
What time does it open?
ခဏလေးkha-NA-lay
One moment, please

Literally "a little moment".

မိနစ်mi-NIT
Minutes

"ငါးမိနစ်" (nga mi-NIT), five minutes.

နာရီna-YI
Hours

Also means clock.

Where Burmese is spoken

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