New Words       

pè-deh  ပေးတယ်  to give, bring   

yu-deh  ယူတယ်  to take, choose   

A-néh B  A-နဲ့ B  A and B   

S1  Ba hma-mǎlèh?  ဘာ မှာမလဲ။  What will you order? 

S2  Kaw-p’i hnǎk’weq pè-ba.  ကော်ဖီ နှစ်ခွက် ပေးပါ။  We’d like to have two cups of coffee. 

S1  Kaùn-ba-bi.  ကောင်းပါပြီ။  Fine. 

  Variants     

S1  Ba hma-jin-dhǎlèh?  ဘာ မှာချင်သလဲ။  What would you like to order? 

S1  Ba yu-mǎlèh?  ဘာ ယူမလဲ။  What will you have? 

S2  Kouq tǎloùn-néh Sǎpa-kǎlin tǎloùn pè-ba.  ကုတ် တစ်လုံးနဲ့ စပါကလင် တစ်လုံး ပေးပါ။  We’d like to have one Coke and one Sparkling, please. 

Notes 

-néh “and” is a suffix: it is attached to the end of the preceding word, and doesn’t stand between the two words like “and”. If your list consists of more than two items, the suffix -né h normally comes after the second-last item: 

A, B, C-néh D A, B, C-နဲ့ D A, B, C and D 

Kaùn-ba-bi “Fine”. In this idiomatic expression the usual suffix -teh/-deh is replaced by -bi /-pi , which slightly changes the meaning: 

Kaùn-ba-deh. ကောင်းပါတယ် It is good 

Kaùn-ba-bi. ကောင်းပါပြီ That’s fine. OK. Very well then.