Everyday Burmese

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v1.2.20190524

Main Translator: Saya Ma Su Yadana.

Updates and spacing: Saya Ma Moe Pwint Phyu.
Updates: Ko Kyaw Htet, Saya Ma Tin Tin Aye, Trevor Advancing in Burmese.
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Politeness:
[With some help from Saya Ma Cherry]
Please note there might be more hidden meanings behind these sentences. Green font means the sentences are commonly used.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%လiu ရမလ2%။
• when we need to ask a help from a stranger, we can use this.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%ပ$4င)/ခင)ဗ62။
• 4င)/ခင)ဗ62 usually attached in more formal situations and adds another level of politeness.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%လiuက)ပ$အu"%။
• means toward “Please open the door for her/him (someone other than the speaker)”.
• တ" ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%လiuက)ပ$။
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%ပ$အu"%။
• အu"%/ဦ% usually used in more friendly situation. Sometimes indicates an urge to do it fast before someone else does it.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*eပ%ပ$။
• commonly used to ask a favor from someone we are pretty close to: “Please open the door for me.”
• တ" ခ$% ဖ'င)*လiuက)ပ$။
• has the sense of giving an order, but softer.
• လiuက) indicates encouragement, persuasion and easy going; but it won’t be polite to use with older people.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*ပ$။
• an old uncle/aunty might omit eပ% ; but it sounds bossy if young people omit eပ% . Still, depends on the tone, might be used
between two very close friends.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*လiuက)။
• giving an order. For example from an older boss to much younger subordinates.
• တ"ခ$% ဖ'င)*။
• ဖ'င)*။

House အiမ)

Room အခန)%

Bedroom အiပ)ခန)%

Bathroom eရခ6iu%ခန)%

Kitchen မ=%ဖiueခ62င)

Dining room ထမင)%စ2%ခန)%

Living room ဧည)*ခန)%

Garage က2%ပ$ကင)

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 1 Please open the door.
တ"ခ$%ဖ'င)*eပ%ပ$။ /ဒဂ$%/

2 Don’t open the window.

Dပတင)%eပ$က)မဖ'င)*ပ$နEF။ /ပဒင)%eဗ2က)/

3 Please lock the door.

တ"ခ$%eလ2ခ)*ခ6eပ%ပ$။

4 Please put the dogs in their cage.

eခ'%eတ'ကiu eလG2င)အiမ)ထE ထည)*လiuက)ပ$။

5 Please let the dogs out (open their cage).

eခ'%eလG2င)အiမ) ဖ'င)*eပ%လiuက)ပ$။

6 Please cook the rice (steamed white rice).

ထမင)%အiu%တည)ပ$။

7 Please boil 3 eggs.

Hကက)ဥသu"%လu"% Dပuတ)eပ%ပ$။

8 Please cook this dish [show the photo].

ဒ=ဟင)% ခ6က)လiuက)ပ$။

9 Please prepare the table.

စ2%ပ'E Dပင)ထ2%ပ$။ /စဗ'E/

10 Please bring us water.

eရယMခE*ပ$။

11 This glass is still dirty, please wash it again.

ဖန)ခ'က)က ညစ)ပတ)eနတu"%ပE။ Dပန)eဆ%eပ%ပ$။

12 Please clean the table.

စ2ပ'E4င)%eပ%ပ$။

13 Please wash the dishes.

ပန)%ကန)eတ' eဆ%လiuက)ပ$။ /ဗဂန)/

14 Please don’t wash the tumblr with the scrub sponge. Just use a bit of soap and rinse with hand.
ဓ$တ)ဘM%ကiu ဘရပ)နEF တiuက)မeဆ%ပ$နEF။ ဆပ)Dပ2နည)%နည)%ယMQပ=% လက)နEFပE eဆ%ပ$။

15 This sugar is not good. Makes me cough. Please change to another brand.
ဒ=သHက2%က မeက2င)%ဘM%။ eခ62င)%ဆiu%တယ)။ တDခ2%တ"ဆiပ) eDပ2င)%သu"%eပ%ပ$။

16 Please cut this meat into small pieces.

ဒ=အသ2%ကiu အတu"%eသ%eသ%eလ%eတ'Dဖစ)eအ2င) လG=%eပ%ပ$။

17 Please cut the fruit.

ဒ=အသ=%ကiu လG=%eပ%ပ$။

18 Please put the fruit on this plate and serve it to the guests.
ဒ=အသ=%ကiu ပန)%ကန)ထE ထည)*Qပ=% ဧည)*သည)eတ'ကiu သ'2%ခ6eပ%ပ$။

19 Please put the milk in the refrigerator.

R'2%Riuကiu eရခEeသတS 2ထE ထည)*eပ%ပ$။ /တစ)တ2/

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 20 Please put the ice cream in the freezer.
eရခEမuန)Fကiu အeအ%ခန)%ထE ထည)*eပ%ပ$။

21 Please make some ice.

eရခE နည)%နည)% လuပ)eပ%ပ$။

22 It’s too salty, please put less salt.

အရမ)%င"တယ)။ ဆ2%eလ62* ထည)*ပ$။

23 I cannot eat spicy. Please don’t put anything spicy.

အစပ)မစ2%Riuင)ဘM%။ စပ)တ2 ဘ2တစ)ခuမG မထည)*ပ$နEF။

24 I don’t eat meat. I am vegetarian.

အသ2%မစ2%ဘM%။ သက)သတ)လ'တ)ပE စ2%တယ)။

25 Please don’t put any msg at all.

အခ6iuမTန)F လu"%ဝမထည)*ပ$နEF။

26 Please make some hot black coffee.

ဘလက)eက2)ဖ= ပMပMeလ% eဖ62)eပ%ပ$။

27 Please serve them some tea.

သMတiuကiu လက)ဖက)ရည) သ'2%ခ6eပ%လiuက)ပ$။

28 The stove is broken. The fire doesn’t light up. Where can we get it fixed?
မ=%ဖiu ပ6က)eနQပ=။ မ=%မလ2eတ2*ဘM%။ ဘယ)န2%မG2 Dပင)လiu ရRiuင)မလE။

29 We run out of cooking gas.

ဂက)စ) ကuန)သ'2%Qပ=။

30 Please fill this bottle with warm drinking water.

ဒ= ပuလင)%ထEကiu eရeR'% Dဖည)*လiuက)ပ$။

31 Please boil baby’s milk bottles for 3 minutes.

ကeလ% RiuဗM%eတ'ကiu ၃မiနစ)eလ2က) Dပuတ)လiuက)ပ$။

32 Please use this tong to pick up the bottles.

RiuဗM%eတ'ကiu eက2က)ဖiu ဒ=ညWပ)ကiu သu"%ပ$။

33 Please mute your phone.

ဖuန)%ကiu အသ"ပiတ)ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

34 Please charge my phone.

ဖuန)%အ2%သ'င)%eပ%ပ$။

35 Can I borrow the phone charger?

ဖuန)%အ2%သ'င)%Xကiu% ခဏငG2%eပ%လiuရမလ2%။

36 Here is your charger. I don’t need it anymore.

အ2%သ'င)%Xကiu%က ဒ=မG2ပ$။ မလiueတ2*ပ$ဘM%။

37 Please wash these clothes.

ဒ=အဝတ)eတ'ကiu eလZ2)eပ%ပ$။

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 38 Please wash this one separately.
ဒ=တစ)ထည)ကiu သတ)သတ)eလZ2)eပ%ပ$။

39 Please use this detergent for baby clothes.

ဒ=ဆပ)Dပ2ကiu ကeလ%အဝတ)eတ' eလZ2)ဖiuအတ'က) သu"%ပ$။

40 Please don’t use softener on baby clothes.

ကeလ%အဝတ)eတ'ကiu fabric softener မသu"%ပ$နEF။

41 This shirt has some stain, please soak it with detergent for a while before you wash them.
ဒ=အက6[မG2 အစ'န)%နည)%နည)%4iတယ)။ မeလZ2)ခင) ဆပ)Dပ2နEF ခဏစiမ)ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

42 Please wash men and women clothes separately.

eယ2က6)2%နEF မiန)%မဝတ)eတ'ကiu သတ)သတ)စ= eလZ2)ပ$။

43 You need to wash underwear by yourself.

အတ'င)%ခ"eတ'ကiu ကiuယ)*ဘ2သ2ကiuယ) eလZ2)ပ$။

44 Don’t hang the clothes on the balcony.

အဝတ)eတ'ကiu ဝရ"တ2မG2 မလGမ)%ပ$နEF။

45 Please hang the shirt on the upper part and pants on the lower ones.
4ပ)အက6[eတ'ကiu အeပ\ ဘက)မG2 လGမ)%Qပ=% eဘ2င)%ဘ=eတ'ကiu eအ2က)ဘက)မG2 လGမ)%ပ$။

46 Please clip the shirt, the wind is too strong, the shirt often flies off.
eလအရမ)%တiuက)တယ)။ ခဏခဏ အက6[eတ' eလနEFပ$ပ$သ'2%တတ)လiu ကလစ)နEF ညWပ)eပ%ပ$။

47 Only pick the clothes up after they are fully dry.

အဝတ)eတ' အကuန)eDခ2က)မG ]uပ)ပ$။

48 Don’t wash clothes too many on one go.

အဝတ)eတ'ကiu တခ$တည)% အကuန)မeလZ2)ပ$နEF။

49 Please iron these clothes with medium heat.

ဒ=အဝတ)eတ'ကiu မပMမeR'%အပMခ6iန)နEF တiuက)eပ%ပ$။

50 You do not need to iron these clothes.

ဒ=အဝတ)eတ'ကiu မ=%ပMတiuက)စရ2မလiuဘM%။

51 Please fold these clothes like this.

ဒ=အဝတ)eတ'ကiu ဒ=လiu eခ$က)ပ$။

52 Please don’t fold these clothes. Use these hangers and put them in that cupboard.
ဒ=အဝတ)eတ'ကiu မeခ$က)ပEနEF အက6[ခ6iတ)နEF ခ6iတ)Qပ=% ဘ=ဒiuထE ထည)*eပ%ပ$။

53 Please handle that dress with extra care. I borrow that from my friend.
ဒ=ဂ$ဝန)ကiu eသeသခ62ခ62eလ% ကiuင)ပ$eန2)။ သMငယ)ခ6င)%ဆ=က ငG2%လ2တ2မiuလiu။

54 Please change the bedsheet.

အiပ)ယ2ခင)% လEလiuက)ပ$။

55 Please fold the blanket.

eစ2င)eခ$က)လiuက)ပ$။

56 Please air the pillow and bolster under the sun.

eခ$င)%အu"% နEF ဖက)လu"%ကiu eနလGမ)%eပ%ပ$။

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 57 Please sweep the floor.
တ"Dမက)စည)% လGည)%eပ%ပ$။

58 Please mop the floor.

Hကမ)%တiuက)eပ%ပ$။

59 Please wipe the table.

စ2%ပ'E သuတ)eပ%ပ$။

60 Please clean the glass door.

မGန)တခ$%ကiu သန)F4င)%eရ%လuပ)eပ%ပ$။

61 Please empty the trash bin.

အမiTက)ပu"% သ'န)eပ%ပ$။

62 Please turn on the water heater.

eရပMeရeအ%စက) ဖ'င)*လiuက)ပ$။

63 We run out of shampoo. Please buy more tomorrow.

eခ$င)%eလZ2)ရည) ကuန)သ'2%Qပ=။ မနက)Dဖန) eခ$င)%eလZ2)ရည)တစ)ဗM%eလ2က) ဝယ)လ2eပ%ပ$။

64 Can I borrow a clean towel?

မ6က)RG2သuတ)ပuဝ$အသန)F တစ)ထည)eလ2က) ခဏ ငG2%လiuရမလ2%။

65 Can I have some toothpaste?

သ'2%တiuက)eဆ%နည)%နည)% ယMလiuရမလ2%။

66 Please wash the car.

က2%eဆ%eပ%ပ$။

67 Please clean inside of the car.

က2%ထEကiu 4င)%ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

68 Please wipe the car dashboard.

Dashboardကiu သuတ)eပ%ပ$။

69 Please turn on the light.

မ=%ဖ'င)*လiuက)ပ$။

70 Please turn off the light.

မ=%ပiတ)လiuက)ပ$။

71 There is no electricity. Please turn on the generator.

မ=%မလ2လiu မ=%စက)ဖ'င)*လiuက)ပ$။

72 The electricity is back. You can turn off the generator.

မ=%Dပန)လ2Qပ=။ မ=%စက) ပiတ)လiuက)ပ$။

73 Please get the aircon serviced because it’s hot.

ပMလiu အEက'န)% servicing လuပ)ပ$။

74 Please tidy the office.

]u"%ခန)%ကiu 4င)%ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

75 I need to go to airport at 4 am. Please prepare breakfast by 3.30.

eလဆiပ)ကiu မနက) ၄န2ရ= သ'2%ရမယ)။ မနက)စ2ကiu ၃န2ရ=ခ'E အQပ=%Dပင)ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

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 76 I will come back to Yangon the day after tomorrow early morning 3 am. Make sure your phone is on, ok?
ရန)ကuန)ကiu သဘက)ခ$ မနက) ၃န2ရ= Dပန)လ2မယ)။ ဖuန)% ဖ'င)*ထ2%eန2)။ ဟuတ)Qပ=လ2%။

77 A guest will come tomorrow. Please clean the guest room.

ဧည)*သည)တစ)eယ2က) မနက)Dဖန) လ2လiမ)*မယ)။ ဧည)*ခန)%ကiu 4င)%ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

78 That table is broken, be careful.

အEဒ=စ2%ပ'Eက က6iu%eနတယ)။ သတiထ2%ပ$။

79 That chair is broken, do not sit there.

အEဒ=ထiuင)ခu"က က6iu%eနတယ)။ အEဒ=မG2 မထiuင)ပ$နEF။

80 I cannot lock the cupboard. Please install(change) another lock.

ဗ=ဒiu eသ2*ခတ)လiuမရဘM%။ eန2က)eသ2* တစ)လu"% လ"eပ%ပ$။

81 I don’t feel well. I will drink medicine and sleep. Please do not wake me up.
eနလiu မeက2င)%လiu eဆ%eသ2က)Qပ=% အiပ)လiuက)အu"%မယ)။ လ2မRiT%နEFeန2)။

82 The baby is sleeping. Please be quiet.

ကeလ%အiပ)eပ62)eနတယ)။ တiတ)တiတ)eနပ$။

83 Please don’t do that. You will wake up the baby.

အEဒ=လiu မလuပ)ပ$နEF။ ကeလ% Riu%သ'2%လiမ)*မယ)။

84 Please carry the baby for a while.

ကeလ% ခဏခ6=ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

85 Please help me make the baby formula. 60 ml every 4 hours.

Ri_မTန)F ကMeဖ62)eပ%ပ$။ ၄ န2ရ=Dခ2%တစ)ခ$ ၆၀မ=လ=လ=တ2 eဖ62)eပ%ပ$။

86 Please put the baby to sleep, but do not rock him too hard.
ကeလ%ကiu သiပ)လiuက)ပ$။ အရမ)% မလbEနEFeန2)။

87 Oh the baby is so cute and chubby. What do you feed him?

အiu% ကeလ%eလ%က ဝဝကစ)ကစ)eလ%နEF ခ6စ)စရ2eလ%။ သcကiu ဘ2eကd%လE။

88 Please accompany the baby sleeping. Do not carry him even if he cries. He can sleep by himself. Just sing
his favorite songs.
ကeလ%အiပ)eနတuန)% eစ2င)*eပ%ပ$။ ကeလ% ထငiuရင)eတ2င) မခ6=ပ$နEF။ သMဘ2သ2သM Dပန)အiပ)eပ62)သ'2%လiမ)*မယ)။ သM
အXကiuက)ဆu"%သ=ခ6င)%သ ဆiueပ%လiuက)။

89 Please burp the baby after drinking milk. She can burb sitting or standing straight.
RiuစiuQပ=%ရင) ကeလ%ကiu eလထuတ)eပ%ပ$။ ကeလ%က ထiuင)လ6က) (ဒ$မGမဟuတ)) မတ)တပ)ရပ)လ6က) ထ2%ရင) eလတက)
တတ)တယ)။

90 The baby just peed. Please change the diaper.

ကeလ% ]M%]M%eပ$က)ခ6လiuက)Qပ=။ ဒiuက)ပ$ လEeပ%ပ$အu"%။

91 The baby is hiccuping. How about breastfeed her (or feed her milk)?
ကeလ% Xကiuထiu%eနတယ)။ သMကiu Riuနည)%နည)% တiuက)လiuက)ပ$လ2%။

92 The baby can recognize stranger now. He will cry a lot if a stranger talks to him.
ကeလ%က လMစiမ)%ကiu မGတ)မieနQပ=။ အEဒ=လM သcကiu စက2%သ'2%eDပ2ရင) အရမ)%ငiuလiမ)*မယ)။

93 Please wrap the baby with this swaddle.

ဒ=အRG=%နEF ကeလ%ကiu ပတ)eပ%ထ2%ပ$။

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 94 The diaper clothes are wet, please change them.
ဒiuက)ပ$eတ' စiueနQပ=။ တစ)ခ6က) လEeပ%ပ$။

95 She is drooling a lot. Please change the bib.

သM သ'2%ရည)eတ' အရမ)%က6eနတယ)။ သMကiu သ'2%ရည)ခ" လEeပ%လiuက)ပ$အu"%။

96 Oh my, she can hold the biscuit and eat it by herself now.
အမeလ%eတ2) ကeလ%က သcဘ2သ2သM ဘ=စကစ)ကiu ကiuင)Qပ=%eတ2င) စ2%တတ)eနQပ=။

97 She just finished one biscuit! She must be very thirsty. Please give her some water.
သM ဘ=စကစ) တစ)ခ6ပ) စ2%Qပ=%Qပ=။ eရဆ2eနမG2ပE။ သcကiu eရတiuက)လiuက)ပ$။

98 He has seafood allergy. Once the mom eat shrimp, it passes via breastmilk, and he has all the rashes.
သM ပင)လယ)စ2နEF မတည)*ဘM%။ အeမပuစ'န) စ2%တ2နEF RiuထE ကiueရ2က)သ'2%မG2။ Qပ=%ရင) သM အဖueတ' ထလ2လiမ)*မယ)။

99 We need to go to women and children hospital this afternoon for his immunization (vaccination). Please
prepare the diaper bag.
ဒ=eနFလည)eလ2က)က6ရင) က2က'ယ)ဆiu%ထiu%ဖiu ကeလ%eဆ%]u"ကiu သ'2%ရမယ)။ ဒiuင)ပ$အiတ)ကiu အသင)* Dပင)ထ2%eပ%ပ$။

100 She can roll over by herself now. See! She’s going to roll now. Quick, take a video.
သMဘ2သM လGiမ)*တက)eနQပ=eတ2)။ eတ'fလ2%။ သM eန2က)တစ)ခ$ လGiမ)*eတ2*မယ)။ သ'2%Dမန)Dမန) ဗ=ဒ=ယiu]iuက)ထ2%။

101 Let him sleep on his side and change the side every time he takes a nap to avoid flat head.
ကeလ%ကiu eဘ%တeစ2င)%အiပ)ခiuင)%Qပ=% eန2က)eစ* မDပ2%eအ2င) ဘက) eDပ2င)%၊ eDပ2င)%eပ%ပ$။

102 When are you going to give him solid food? He is already 6,5 months!
သcကiu ဘယ)eတ2* အစ2အမ2 eကd%မG2လE။ သM ၆လခ'EထE eရ2က)eနQပ=eလ။

103 She’s sweating so much. Let’s change her shirt!

သMeခd%eတ' အရမ)%ထ'က)eနတယ)။ အက6[ လEeပ%လiuက)ပ$။

104 It’s summer now. Let’s shave his head and start shower him with colder water.
eR'ရ2သ=eရ2က)Qပ=။ သMကiu ဆ"ပင) ရiတ)eပ%ရeအ2င)။ Qပ=%ရင) eရeအ%eလ%နEF eရခ6iu%eပ%မယ)။

105 He is bald now. We don’t need to wash his hair anymore haha.
သM ကတu"%Dဖစ)သ'2%Qပ=။ သcကiu eခ$င)%eလZ2)eပ%စရ2မလiueတ2*ဘM% ဟ2%ဟ2%။

106 How many times the baby has wet diapers a day? It should be at least 6!
တစ)ရက)ကiu ဒiuင)ပ$ ဘယ)RGခueလ2က) လEရလE။ အနည)%ဆu"% ၆ခueလ2က) Dဖစ)သင)*တယ)။

107 When is the last time he poop? Has it been 3 days? We should let him drink more and give him some pear.
သM ဘယ)အခ6iနက ) eန2က)ဆu"%အ=%ပ$ခE*လE။ ၃ရက)eလ2က) 4iQပ=လ2%။ သMကiu အရည)မ62%မ62% eသ2က)ခiuင)%Qပ=% သစ)eတ2)
သ=%eလ% eကd%eပ%ပ$။

108 She doesn’t want to sleep yet. Please just put her on the bed and play with her.
သM မအiပ)ခ6င)eသ%ဘM%။ သcကiu အiပ)ယ2eပ\တင)Qပ=% သMနEF ကစ2%လiuက)ပ$။

109 How long did she sleep? Not even 1 hour wasn’t it?
သM ဘယ)eလ2က) Hက2Hက2အiပ)ခE*လE။ ၁န2ရ= eတ2င) မDပည)*ဘM% ဟuတ)တယ)မGတ)လ2%။

110 Don’t play with the baby too much. See! Now he pukes out milk.
ကeလ%နEF အရမ)%မကစ2%နEF။ eတ'fလ2% အခu Riueတ' Dပန)အန)ထ'က)ကuန)Qပ=။

111 He likes to tell you story when you are telling him story, likes to sing when you sing. Isn’t he very smart?
သcကiu ပu"eDပ2DပတE*အခ$က6ရင) သMလည)% ပu"Dပင) Dပန)eDပ2Dပရတ2Xကiuက)တယ)။ သ=ခ6င)%ဆiuDပတE*အခ$ သ=ခ6င)%Dပန)ဆiuDပရ
တ2 Xကiuက)တယ)။ ကeလ%က eတ2)တယ) မGတ)လ2%။

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