New Words       

shí-deh  ရှိတယ်  to exist, to be [somewhere], to have   

beh-hnǎ-  ဘယ်နှစ်-  how many [bottles, cans, cups, etc]   

yá-deh  ရတယ်  to get, to obtain   

X yá-mǎlà?  X ရမလား။  Shall we get X? Would we get X (understand “if we asked you for it”)? Is X available?   

koun-deh or koun-dhwà-deh  ကုန်တယ် ကုန်သွားတယ်  to run out, be used up, sold out   

S1  Bi-ya shí-dhǎlà?  ဘီယာ ရှိသလား။  Do you have any beer? 

S2  Shí-ba-deh.  ရှိပါတယ်။  Yes, we have. 

  Beh-hnǎloùn yu-mǎlèh?  ဘယ်နှစ်လုံး ယူမလဲ။  How many cans would you like? 

  A variant     

S1  Sǎmu-s’a yá-mǎlà?  စမူဆာ ရမလား။  Could we have some samusa? 

S2  Yá -ba-deh.  ရပါတယ်။  Yes, you can. 

  Beh-hnǎk’ú yu-mǎlèh?  ဘယ်နှစ်ခု ယူမလဲ။  How many would you like? 

  If there isn’t any     

S2  Mǎshí-ba-bù.  မရှိပါဘူး။  No, we haven’t any. 

  Koun-dhwà-bi.  ကုန်သွားပြီ။  We’ve run out. 

  S’àw-rì-naw.  ဆောရီးနော်။  I’m sorry. 

Notes 

Koun-dhwà -bi “We’ve run out”. For the verb suffix -bi/-pi see Verb Paradigms in Appendix 3 (outline grammar). 

K oun-deh or koun-dhwà -deh. The use of -dhwà (“to go”) adds a suggestion of movement: “be used up + go, get used up, run out”.