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ein-hmú-keiq-sá  အိမ်မှကိစ္စ  housework (“house affairs activity”)   

  Sentences     

S1  Ălouq louq-ne-dhǎlà?  အလုပ် လုပ်နေသလား။  Are you working? 

S2  Mǎlouq-pa-bù. Ein-hmú keiq-sá louq-pa-deh.  မလုပ်ပါဘူး။ အိမ် မှကိစ္စ လုပ်ပါတယ်။  No. I look after the house. 

or  Mǎlouq-táw-ba-bù. Pin-sin yu-laiq-pi.  မလုပ်တော့ပါဘူး။ ပင်စင် ယူလိုက်ပြီ။  Not any longer. I am retired. 

or  Mǎlouq-thè-ba-bù. Caùn teq-ne-ba-deh.  မလုပ်သေးပါဘူး။ ကျောင်း တက်နေပါတယ်။  Not yet. I am attending school. 

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  Ălouq mǎlouq-pa-bù.  အလုပ် မလုပ်ပါဘူး။  He doesn’t work. 

  Ălouq mǎlouq-táw-ba-bù.  အလုပ် မလုပ်တော့ပါဘူး။  He doesn’t work any more. He no longer works. 

  Ălouq mǎlouq-thè-ba-bù.  အလုပ် မလုပ်သေးပါဘူး။  He doesn’t work yet. He hasn’t yet taken a job. 

  pin-sin  ပင်စင်  pension, retirement 

  pin-sin yu-deh  ပင်စင် ယူတယ်  to take a pension, to retire 

  Pin-sin yu-laiq-pi.  ပင်စင် ယူလိုက်ပြီ  I have taken my pension. I am retired. 

  teq-teh  တက်တယ်  to go up to, attend 

  caùn teq-teh  ကျောင်း တက်တယ်။  to attend school 

Notes 

Ălouq mǎlouq-táw-ba-bù . “He doesn’t work any more. He no longer works.” The suffix -táw/-dáw with a negated verb conveys the meaning “no longer, not any more, not after all”. Compare Mǎsì-dáw-ba-bù = “I won’t ride (in your taxi) after all” in 5.6 and Mǎshí-dáw-ba-bù. “I haven’t any any more. I no longer have any” in 6.3. 

Ălouq mǎlouq-thè-ba-bù . “He doesn’t work yet. He hasn’t yet taken a job.” The suffix -thè/-dhè with a negated verb conveys the meaning “not yet”. Compare mǎpyáw-daq-thè-ba-bù “I can’t speak yet” in 9.1 and mǎca-dhè-ba-bù “It hasn’t been long yet, it’s not long so far” in 9.4. 

Pin-sin. A common variant for this word is ǎnyeìn-zà အငြိမ်းစား “a life of peace” or “one who lives in peace”. 

Pin-sin yu-laiq-pi “I have taken my pension”. The verb suffix -laiq-pi conveys the meaning that the action has been completed.