Burmese Pronouns

First Person Pronouns

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Second Person Pronouns

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Pronouns on Gender
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 Burmese pronouns ငကမိန်ကလေ။
မိန်းက လေး။
ငကယေက်ျ
ယောက်ျား
လေ။
(I am a girl) (I am a boy)

First Person Pronouns(Casual)

Pronouns usage in Burmese depends on
two factors
 Closeness
 politeness of the speaker
Pronoun “င” is only used in given pics:
>Boy and Girl are close
>Speaks casually
>Gender neutral
Two close friends talking to each other
 First Person Pronouns(Formal)

ကျွန်တေ ပင်ပန်နေပြီ။
။
(I am tired)
“ကျွန်တေ” is used:
>Boy talking to his dad respectfully
If the speaker was a girl
“ကျွန်မ” is used
In English, pronoun is only ‘I’.

A father and a son having a conversation

Second Person
မင်: သင်္အ
မှ အရမ်တေ
ရမ်း
တော်
Pronouns(Casual) တယ်။
(you are so good at
math)

‘မင်:’ or 'နင်’ is used:

>Casually addressing someone
>Not used Formally
 Second Person Pronouns(formal)
ဟု တ်ကဲ့ ။ ခင်ဗျ ပြေတ
ကျွန်တေ ပြေတ ရှ င် နလည်
ကျွန်တေ နလည်တယ်။
လ။
(yes I understand what u
(Do you understand what
“ရှ င်” or “ခင်ဗျ”is used said)
I'm saying?)
>Formally addressing someone
>addressing a stranger
“ရှ င်” is used when speaker is a female “ခင်ဗျ” is
used when speaker is a male
Only the pronoun “you” is used when
addressing in English
BURMESE PRONOUNS ON GENDER ဟု တ်တယ်၊ ဒပေမယ့်
Hannah၊ သူ က ပို ထက်မြက်
တယ်။
Raiden ၊ သူ က ဉဏ်ကေင် (Yes, But Hannah, she is
တယ်။ smarter.)
(Raiden ,he is smart)
Burmese pronouns:
>do not specify the object’s gender
>specify the subject’s gender
For Both ”He” and “She” pronouns:
Burmese language uses “သူ ”
PRONOUNS ENGLISH BURMESE

FIRST PERSON (FORMAL) “I” SPEAKER:“ကျွန်တေ” (male), “ကျွန်မ”

(female)
FIRST PERSON (CASUAL) “I” “င” (gender neutral)

SECOND PERSON (FORMAL) “YOU” SPEAKER:ခင်ဗျ (male),“ရှ င်”(female)

SECOND PERSON(CAUSAL) “YOU” ‘မင်:’ or 'နင်’

THIRD PERSON(MALE) ”HE” “သူ ”

THIRD PERSON(FEMAL) “SHE” “သူ ”