Burmese – Alyglot

Ordering food at a restaurant

Phrases used by the staff at the restaurant Table for how many? / For how many people? Are you ready to order? / Do you want to order yet? What would you like to eat? / What do you want to eat? What would you like to have? What dish would you like to order? […]

Fruits

Fruit အသီး apple ပန်းသီး banana ငှက်ပျောသီး coconut အုန်းသီး dragon fruit နဂါးမောက်သီး durian ဒူးရင်းသီး grape စပျစ်သီး jackfruit ပိန္နသီး longan လောင်ဂန်သီး lychee လိုင်ချီးသီး mango သရက်သီး mangosteen မင်းဂွတ်သီး orange လိမ္မော်သီး papaya သင်္ဘောသီး pear သစ်တော်သီး pineapple နာနတ်သီး pomelo ကျွဲကောသီး rambutan ကြက်မောက်သီး starfruit စောင်းလျားသီး strawberry စတော်ဘယ်ရီသီး tamarind မန်ကျည်းသီး […]

Burmese Vowels

Script IPA Roman ʔà a ʔaʔ at ʔàɴ an ʔaɪʔ ai’ ʔàɪɴ ain ʔaʊʔ au’ ʔàʊɴ aung ʔè ei ʔɛ̀ e ʔɛʔ e’ ʔeɪʔ ei’ ʔèɪɴ ein ʔì i ʔɪʔ i’ ʔɪ̀ɴ in ʔɔ̀ aw ʔò ou ʔoʊʔ ou’ ʔòʊɴ oun ʔù u ʔʊʔ u’ ʔʊ̀ɴ un […]

Telling Time & Dates

day two days before yesterday the day before yesterday yesterday today tomorrow the day after tomorrow two days after tomorrow Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday What day is today? Today is Saturday. weekday weekend holiday public holiday morning noon afternoon evening night decade century millennium in the old days once upon a time […]

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Shopping

What do you want to buy? I want to buy a shirt. I’ll buy this one. I’ll take this one. What sizes do you have for this one? / What sizes are there for this one? This one is too big. Do you have a bigger size? This one is too small. Do you have […]

Essential phrases for the budding Burmese learner

I don’t understand. I am a foreigner Do you speak English? I don’t know Burmese. Can you speak slower? Can you say it again? / Please say it one more time. / Please say again. / Please repeat that. Learning in Burmese I’m learning Burmese. I can speak a little Burmese. How long have you […]