New Words       

na-yi  နာရီ  hour, clock   

mí-niq  မိနစ်  minute   

Examples of times       

lè-na-yi  လေးနာရီ  four o’clock   

kò-na-yi  ကိုးနာရီ  nine o’clock   

kò-na-yi s’éh-ngà-mí-niq  ကိုးနာရီ ဆယ့်ငါးမိနစ်  9:15   

Notes 

Note that tiq, hniq, k’un-hniq weaken as usual (see Lesson 1.5, 1.7, 1.9): 

tǎna-yi တစ်နာရီ one o’clock 

k’un-nǎna-yi ခုနှစ်နာရီ seven o’clock 

And the Round Number Rule is observed (see 2.1): 

hnǎna-yi mí-niq hnǎs’eh နှစ်နာရီ မိနစ် နှစ်ဆယ် 2:20 

c’auq-na-yi mí-niq thoùn-zeh ခြောက်နာရီ မိနစ် သုံးဆယ် 6:30 

Half past the hour is sometimes shortened. For example, for “6.30”, in place of the pattern above, you may hear: 

c’auq-na-yi-gwèh ခြောက်နာရီခွ 6:30 

and so on for other times. The suffix -k’wèh/-gwèh means “and a half”.