Useful words and phrases in Myanmar (Burmese)

Greetings in Myanmar (Burmese)

Welcome Kjyo-so-ba-deh ၾကိဳဆိုပါတယး။
How are you? Ne-kaùn-là ေနေကာငး့လာ့
Good, thanks Ne-kaùn-ba-deh , Kyei:-zu:-tin-ba- ေနေကာငး့ပါတယး။ ေက့္ဇူ့တငးပါတယး
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Pleased to meet you Twé-yá-da wùn-tha-ba-deh ေတျ႔ရတာ ွမး့သာပါတယး
Good morning Min-ga-la-ba မဂၤလာပါ။
Good afternoon Min-ga-la-ba မဂၤလာပါ။
Good evening Min-ga-la-ba မဂၤလာပါ။
Good night Kaùn-thaw-nya-ba-naw ေကာငး့ေသာညပါေနား
Goodbye! Thwà-meh-naw! သျာ့မယးေနား။
Good luck Kan-kaung-ba-zay ကဵေကာငး့ပါေစ။
Have a nice day Kaùn-thaw-né-phyit-ba-say ေကာငး့ေသာေန႔်ဖစးပါေစ။
Thank you Kjei:-zu:-tin-ba-deh ေက့္ဇူ့တငးပါတယး။
Good wishes in Burmese in holidays and occasions:
Happy birthday! mingalar mwei: nei ba! မဂၤလာ ေမျ့ေန႔ပါ။
Happy new year! mingalar hnit thit ba! မဂၤလာ ႏြစးသစးပါ။
Merry Christmas! merry christmas!
Good luck! kan kaung ba zay! ကဵေကာငး့ပါေစ။
Congratulations! chee kjyu: ba deh! ခ္ီ့က္ဴ့ပါတယး။
 Useful words and phrases in Myanmar (Burmese)
name Nan-meh အမညး၊ နာမညး
Birth day mwè-né ေမျ့ေန႔
quickly myan-myan ်မနး်မနး
you are right. Hman-deh မြနးတယး
school Kjaùn ေက္ာငး့
student (female) Kjaùn-thu ေက္ာငး့သူ
student (male) Kjaùn-thar ေက္ာငး့သာ့
teacher (female) sa-ya-ma ဆရာမ
teacher (male) sa-ya ဆရာ
What is your name? Nan-meh-beh-lo-kaw-dhalèh နာမညး ဘယးလိုေခၚသလဲ
What is that? Da-ba-lèh? ဒါ ဘာလဲ
Where do you come from? Beh-ga-la-dha-lèh ဘယးက လာသလဲ
Where are you staying? Beh-hmar-nay-dha-lèh ဘယးမြာ ေနသလဲ
Do you speak English? Ìn-galeiq-sagà-pyàw-daq-là အဂၤလိပးစကာ့ ေ်ပာတတးလာ့။
Do you speak Burmese? Bama sagà-pyàw-daq-là ဗမာ စကာ့ေ်ပာတတးလာ့။
Yes, a little ((reply to 'Do you speak ...?')
Nèh-nèh-bèh-pyàw-daq-ba-deh နညး့ နညး့ေ်ပာတတးပါတယး။
How do you say ... in Burmese? bama lo ... go balo pyaw leh? ဗမာ လို ………… ကို ဘယးလိုေ်ပာလညး့။
Please speak more slowly pyay pyay pyaw ba ်ဖညး့်ဖညး့ေ်ပာပါ။
Please say that again Pyan-pyàw-ba-oùn ်ပနးေ်ပာပါဦ့။
Please write it down yay pya ba ေရ့်ပပါ။
I understand Nà-leh-ba-deh နာ့လညးပါတယး။
I don't understand Nà-mǎleh-ba-bù နာ့မလညးပါဘူ့။
I don't know Ma thi par bhuu မသိပါဘူ့။
Are you alright? A-Sin-Pye-Là? အဆငးေ်ပရဲ႕လာ့။
I'm alright. A-Sin-Pye-ba-deh အဆငးေ်ပပါတယး။
I'm sorry wùn-nèh-ba-deh (or) séi- ွမး့နညး့ပါတယး။ စိတးမေကာငး့ပါဘူ့
ma-Kaùn-ba-bu:
Never mind, it's alright ya-ba-deh ရပါတယး။
Thank you Kjei:-zu:-tin-ba-deh ေက့္ဇူ့တငးပါတယး။
my pleasure wùn-tha-ba-deh ွမး့သာပါတယး
That's fine. OK. Very well then. Kaùn-ba-byi ေကာငး့ပါ်ပီ။
It's good. Kaùn-ba-deh ေကာငး့ပါတယး။
I like it. Kjaiq-pa-deh ၾကိဳကးပါတယး
Yes Houq-kéh အငး့။ ဟုတးကဲံ
no hin-in: ဟငးံအငး့
No, it isn't. Ma-houq-bu: မဟုတးဘူ့။