Bedeutung
Referring to a high-paying job.
Kultureller Hintergrund
Discussing salary is a way to gauge social standing, but being too specific with numbers is often avoided to maintain humility (A-nar-de). In the city, 'la sa kaung tal' often implies a job in an international NGO or a foreign-owned tech company. In villages, a 'good salary' might refer to a government job (like a teacher or clerk) because of the stability and pension, even if the cash amount is lower than city jobs. Young people use social media to share 'la sa kaung te a-loke' opportunities, often using English loanwords alongside Burmese.
Polite Inquiry
When asking about salary, adding 'တော်တော်' (quite) makes it sound more natural: 'လစာ တော်တော်ကောင်းလား။'
Avoid Specifics
Unless you are very close, don't follow up 'la sa kaung tal' with 'How much exactly?'
Bedeutung
Referring to a high-paying job.
Polite Inquiry
When asking about salary, adding 'တော်တော်' (quite) makes it sound more natural: 'လစာ တော်တော်ကောင်းလား။'
Avoid Specifics
Unless you are very close, don't follow up 'la sa kaung tal' with 'How much exactly?'
Adjective Use
Remember to use 'te' (တဲ့) when describing a job: 'လစာကောင်းတဲ့အလုပ်' (A good-paying job).
The 'Good' Concept
In Burmese, 'good' (kaung) is used for many positive financial states where English might use 'high' or 'strong'.
Teste dich selbst
Fill in the blank with the correct word for 'salary'.
သူ့အလုပ်က ____ ကောင်းတယ်။
'La sa' specifically means salary, which fits the context of a job's pay.
Which sentence means 'I am looking for a high-paying job'?
Choose the correct Burmese sentence:
You must use the 'te' (တဲ့) particle to turn 'la sa kaung tal' into an adjective modifying 'a-loke'.
Match the response to the question.
Question: အဲဒီကုမ္ပဏီမှာ အလုပ်ဝင်ရတာ အဆင်ပြေရဲ့လား။ (Is it okay working at that company?)
A good salary is a common reason for a job being 'okay' or satisfactory.
Complete the dialogue.
A: နင့်အစ်ကိုက အခု ဘယ်မှာ အလုပ်လုပ်နေတာလဲ။ B: စင်ကာပူမှာ။ အဲဒီမှာ ___________။
Working in Singapore is typically associated with having a 'good salary' compared to local jobs.
🎉 Ergebnis: /4
Visuelle Lernhilfen
Salary vs Income
Aufgabensammlung
4 Aufgabenသူ့အလုပ်က ____ ကောင်းတယ်။
'La sa' specifically means salary, which fits the context of a job's pay.
Choose the correct Burmese sentence:
You must use the 'te' (တဲ့) particle to turn 'la sa kaung tal' into an adjective modifying 'a-loke'.
Question: အဲဒီကုမ္ပဏီမှာ အလုပ်ဝင်ရတာ အဆင်ပြေရဲ့လား။ (Is it okay working at that company?)
A good salary is a common reason for a job being 'okay' or satisfactory.
A: နင့်အစ်ကိုက အခု ဘယ်မှာ အလုပ်လုပ်နေတာလဲ။ B: စင်ကာပူမှာ။ အဲဒီမှာ ___________။
Working in Singapore is typically associated with having a 'good salary' compared to local jobs.
🎉 Ergebnis: /4
Häufig gestellte Fragen
5 FragenIt's better to use 'Win ngway kaung tal' (Income is good) for freelancers, as 'la sa' implies a monthly salary.
No, it's a humble way to say you are doing well without bragging about the exact amount.
The most common opposite is 'la sa nee tal' (salary is little).
Add 'အရမ်း' (a-yan) or 'တော်တော်' (taw-taw) before 'kaung': 'လစာ အရမ်းကောင်းတယ်။'
Yes, but use 'ကောင်းမွန်သည်' (kaung-mun-the) for a more professional written tone.
Verwandte Redewendungen
လစာနည်းတယ်
contrastSalary is low/little.
ဝင်ငွေကောင်းတယ်
similarIncome is good.
အပိုဆုကြေး
builds onBonus.
အလုပ်အကိုင် အခွင့်အလမ်း
relatedJob opportunities.
စားဝတ်နေရေး
relatedLivelihood (Food, clothing, shelter).
