Burmese Grammar

The Burmese grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Burmese and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: hne	Under: aut
Before: ma tai me	After: pyi naut
Inside: a twin	Outside: a pyin
With: hnint a tu	But: thoh thaw le
For: a twet	From: hma
To: thoh	In: a the hmar

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: bar le	Who?: be thu le
How?: be lo le	Why?: bar kyaunt le
Where?: be hmar le

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: be daw hma	Rarely: shar shar ba ba
Sometimes: ta khar ta yan	Usually: a khar dine a myarr arr phyint
Always: a mye dan	Very: a yan

Most commonly used pronouns in Burmese:

I: kyun note	You: thin
He: thu	She: thu ma
We: kyun note doh	They: thu doh

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: kyun note ei	Your: thin ei
His: thu ei	Her: thu ma ei
Our: kyun note doh ei	Their: thu doh ei

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: kyun note ingalait sagar pyaw thie

You speak French: thin pyin thit sagar pyaw thie

He speaks German: thu german sagar pyaw thie

She speaks Italian: thu ma italy sagar pyaw tnie

I visited France: kyun note pyin thit naing ngan ko a le thwar khe de

I will drink milk: kyun note nwar noh thauk me

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: thin ko kyun note nar le ba de

I don't understand you: thin ko kyun note nar ma le bu

I don't speak French: kyun note pyin thit sagar ma pyaw tat bu

This is my house: d har ka kyun note doh ei ain phyit de

That restaurant is far: hto sar thaut sai ka way de

No problem: pyat tha nar ma hoat ba bu

The above Burmese grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Burmese vocabulary to obtain some popular Burmese phrases.