Thursday, February 14, 2013

Phrases used daily

The first one is in English, the second in Burmese language, and the third is the pronunciation.

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night
မဂၤလာပါ။
"Min Ka-lah Pah" or "Min Ka-lar par"

Are you feeling well?
ေနေကာင္းလား။
"Nay Kaung Lah"

I love you
ငါနင့္ကိုခ်စ္တယ္။
"Ngar Nint Ko Chit Tal"

I'm fine/I'm good (Something like, I'm healthy. Used when answering the 'Nay Kaung Lah' phrase.)
ေနေကာင္းတယ္။
"Nay Kaung Tal"

I'm sick/I'm not fine
ေနမေကာင္းဘူး
"Nay Ma Kaung Buu" ('Ma' means no in Burmese.)

I hate you
ငါနင့္ကိုမုန္းတယ္
"Ngar Nint Ko Mone Tal"

Thank you
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္
"Kyay Su Tin Par Tal" ('Su' can be also said as 'Zuu'. 'Tin' as in Tin Tin[The cartoon..])

Your welcome
ရပါတယ္ (Probably means "It's okay" rather than Your welcome, since there's no word for your welcome in Burmese.)
"Ya Par Tal"


Introduction

Learning Burmese is a little bit difficult, especially the pronunciation. But in this blog, I'm going to try to teach you how to speak in Burmese language. I'm a Burmese myself. Sorry in advance, if you didn't understand my explanation or such things.