A collection of useful phrases in Burmese, a Burmese-Lolo language spoken mainly in Burma (Myanmar).
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to men, >f = said to women, m = said by men, f = said by female
See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder. If you can provide recordings, corrections or additional translations, please contact me.
| English | ဗမာစကား (Burmese) |
|---|---|
| Welcome | ကြိုဆိုပါတယ် (kyaosopartaal) |
| Hello (General greeting) | မဂႆလာပၝ (min-ga-la-ba) |
| Hello (on phone) | ဟဲလို? (hello) |
| How are you? | ခင္ဗ်ားေနေကာင္းလား (k'amyà ne-kaùn-là?) ၇ွင္ေနေကာင္းလား။ (shin ne-kaùn-yéh-là?) |
| Reply to 'How are you?' | ေနေကာင်းပါတယ်။ ဘယ်လိုလဲ? (ne-kaùn-ba-deh, bhaallolell?) |
| Long time no see | ma twe tah kya bi |
| What's your name? | ခင္ဗ်ားနာမည္ဘယ္လိုေခၚလဲ။ (k'amyà ne-meh beh-lo k'aw-lèh?) ၡင်နာမည်ဘယ်လို ေခါ်သလဲ။ (shin ne-meh beh-lo k'aw-dhǎlèh?) >f |
| My name is ... | ကျွန်ေတာ့် ... လို့ေခါ်ပါတယ်။ (cǎnáw ... ló k'aw-ba-deh) m ကျွန်မ ... လို့ေခါ်ပါတယ်။ (cǎmá ... ló k'aw-ba-deh) f |
| Where are you from? | သင်ဘယ်ကလဲ? (sain bhaalkalell?) |
| I'm from ... | ...ကပါ။ (k-par) |
| Pleased to meet you | ေတွ ရတာ ဝမ်းသာပါတယ်။ (twé-yá-da wùn-tha-ba-deh) |
| Good morning (Morning greeting) |
မဂႆလာပၝ (min-ga-la-ba) |
| Good afternoon (Afternoon greeting) |
မဂႆလာပၝ (min-ga-la-ba) |
| Good evening (Evening greeting) |
မဂႆလာပၝ (min-ga-la-ba) |
| Good night | |
| Goodbye (Parting phrases) |
ဘိုင်။ (bhine) ဘိုင်ဘိုင်။ (bhinebhine) |
| Good luck! | ကံကောင်းပါစေ! (kan-kaung-ba-zay) |
| Cheers! Good Health! (Toasts used when drinking) |
|
| Have a nice day | |
| Bon appetit / Have a nice meal |
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| Bon voyage / Have a good journey |
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| Do you understand? | နားလည်သလား။ (nà-leh-dhala?) |
| I understand | ကျွန်တော်နားလည်ပါတယ် (kyawantaw narrlaipartaal) |
| I don't understand | နားမလည္ပၝဘူး။ (nà-mǎleh-ba-bù) |
| Yes | အင်း၊ (aainn) |
| I don't know | မသိပါဘူး။ (ma thi par bhuu) |
| Please speak more slowly | pyay pyay pyaw ba |
| Please say that again | ြပန်ေြဟပါအံုး။ (pyan-pyàw-ba-oùn) |
| Please write it down | yay pya ba |
| Do you speak English? | သင် အင်္ဂလိပ်လို ပြောသလား? (shin aaingaliutlo pyaw lar?) |
| Do you speak Burmese? | ဗမာစကား ေြဟတတ်သလား။ (bamazaga pyaw daq lar?) |
| Yes, a little (reply to 'Do you speak ...?') |
နဲနဲေြဟတတ်ပါတယ်။ (nèh-nèh pyàw-daq-ba-deh) |
| How do you say ... in Burmese? | bama lo ... go balo pyaw leh? |
| Excuse me | ခင္ဗဵာ? (ka mya?) - m / shin? (f) |
| How much is this? | diha balao leh? |
| Sorry | ဝမ်းနဲပါတယ်။ (wùn-nèh-ba-deh) |
| Thank you | ေက်းဇူးတန္ပါတယ္။ (cè-zù tin-ba-deh) |
| Reply to thank you | ရပါတယ်။ (ya-ba-deh) |
| Where's the toilet / bathroom? | ain-ta beh ma leh? |
| This gentleman will pay for everything | di ka lu gyi min pasan akong shin meh di ka meih swe pasan akong shin meh |
| This lady will pay for everything | |
| Would you like to dance with me? | |
| I love you | cha-nor kin-mya go chit-teh (m) cha-ma shin go chit-teh (f) |
| Get well soon | |
| Leave me alone! | |
| Help! | ကယ်ပါ။ (keh-ba) |
| Fire! | mee laun neih bi! |
| Stop! | ရပ်။ (yaq) |
| Call the police! | ရဲကိုခေါ်ပါ! (rell ko hkaw par!) |
| Christmas greetings | ခရစ္စမတ်နေမှာ မြူးမျော်ပါ (Christmas nay hma mue pyaw pa) |
| New Year greetings | နစ်ဘစ်ကူး မဂံ်လာပါ။ (Hnit thit ku mingalar pa) |
| Easter greetings | |
| Birthday greetings | ပျော်ရွင်ဖွယ်ရာမွေးနေ့ (pyawrwin hpwalrar mwaynae) ပျော်ရွှင်စရာမွေးနေ့ဖြစ်ပါစေ (pyawshwinhcarar mwaynae hpyitparhcay) |
| Congratulations! | ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်! (gunyuupartaal!) |
| One language is never enough | |
| My hovercraft is full of eels | ကျွန်တော်ရဲ့ လေစီးယာဉ်မှာ ငါးရှင့်တွေအပြည့်ရှိနေပါတယ်။ (kyawantawrae lay hcee yarnymhar ngarr sh in tway a pyi shinaypartaal) |
If you would like to make any corrections or additions to this page, or if you can provide recordings, please contact me.
Information about Burmese | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Burmese courses on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
Other collections of Burmese phrases
http://ilanguages.org/burmese_phrases.php
http://www.asiapearltravels.com/language/lesson28.php
http://wikitravel.org/en/Burmese_phrasebook
http://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/system/files/Burmese Language Phrases with Audio_0.pdf
http://www.asianhorizons.co.uk/tours-of-burma-phrases-burmese/
http://www.englishspeak.com/my/english-lessons.cfm
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