6.3. Have you got ....? No.

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  Sentences     

S2  Pǎla-sǎta shí-là?  ပလာစတာ ရှိလား။  Do you have any sticking plaster? 

S1  Mǎshí-ba-bù.  မရှိပါဘူး။  No, I haven’t. 

or  Mǎshí-dáw-ba-bù.  မရှိတော့ပါဘူး။  No, I haven’t any more. 

or  Koun-dhwà-bi.  ကုန်သွားပြီ။  I’ve run out. 

or  S’aw-rì-naw?  ဆောရီးနော်။  I’m sorry. 

S2  Aw. Keiq-sá mǎshí-ba-bù.  အော်။ ကိစ္စ မရှိပါဘူး။  Oh. It doesn’t matter. 

Notes 

Keiq-sá mǎshí-ba-bù. Literally “activity + not + exist”: hence “it’s no bother”, “it doesn’t matter”. 

Mǎshí-ba-bù “I haven’t any”. Mǎshí-dáw-ba-bù. “I haven’t any any more. I no longer have any”. The suffix -táw/-dáw with a negated verb conveys the meaning “no longer, not any more, not after all”. Compare Mǎsí-dáw-ba-bù . “I won’t take (your taxi) after all” in 5.6.