A2 · Elemental Capítulo 29

Pointing Things Out: Demonstratives and Quantifiers

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Chapter in 30 Seconds

Master the art of identifying and counting objects in Burmese with ease and precision.

  • Identify objects near and far using demonstratives.
  • Quantify items using expressions for 'some', 'many', and 'few'.
  • Apply specific particles to emphasize completeness and universality.
Point, count, and conquer Burmese conversations!

Lo que aprenderás

Learn to use 'this', 'that', 'these', and 'those', as well as words like 'some' and 'many'. This chapter helps you specify and quantify nouns.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

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    By the end you will be able to: Accurately point to items in a store and request specific amounts.

Consejos y trucos (4)

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The 'Ae-di' Shortcut

If you aren't sure if something is far enough for 'Ho', just use 'Ae-di'. It's the safest 'that' for conversation.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Demonstratives: 'This', 'That', 'These', 'Those' (ဒီ / ဟို / အဲဒီ)
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The 'Be' Rule

Whenever you want to say 'any', start your phrase with 'Be' (ဘယ်). It's the universal starter for indefinite words.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Some', 'Any' (အချို့ / ဘယ်လိုမှ)
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The 'Only' Particle

Pair 'နည်းနည်း' (little) with 'ပဲ' (only) to emphasize that the amount is small. It makes you sound more like a native speaker.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Many', 'Few' (အများကြီး / အနည်းငယ်)
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Placement

Always put 'လုံးဝ' before the word you want to emphasize.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: The Particle (လုံးဝ) for 'Completely'

Vocabulario clave (6)

ဒီ (di) this ဟို (ho) that အချို့ (a-chyo) some အများကြီး (a-myar-gyi) many အနည်းငယ် (a-ne-nge) few တိုင်း (tine) every

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Review Summary

  • Demonstrative + Noun
  • Noun + တိုင်း

Errores comunes

In Burmese, demonstratives come before the noun, not after.

Wrong: သရက်သီး ဒီ (Mango this)
Correcto: ဒီသရက်သီး (This mango)

Quantifiers like 'many' usually follow the noun they quantify.

Wrong: အများကြီး ပန်းသီး (Many apples)
Correcto: ပန်းသီး အများကြီး (Apples many)

The particle 'tine' must be attached as a suffix to the noun.

Wrong: တိုင်း နေ့ (Every day)
Correcto: နေ့တိုင်း (Day every)

Next Steps

You are making amazing progress! Keep pointing out the world around you in Burmese.

Label items in your house using sticky notes with 'di' and 'ho'.

Continue to: Together and About: Expressing 'With' and 'About'

Práctica rápida (10)

Which sentence is formal?

Choose the formal way to say 'I have a little money.'

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ပိုက်ဆံ အနည်းငယ် ရှိပါသည်။
'အနည်းငယ်' and the polite ending 'ပါသည်' make the sentence formal.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Many', 'Few' (အများကြီး / အနည်းငယ်)

Choose the correct word for: 'I want some water.'

ကျွန်တော် ရေ ___ သောက်ချင်တယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: အချို့
'Achyo' is used for 'some' in positive sentences.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Some', 'Any' (အချို့ / ဘယ်လိုမှ)

Complete the negative sentence: 'No one came.'

ဘယ်သူမှ ___။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: မလာဘူး
'Be... hma' must be paired with a negative verb ending in 'ma... bu'.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Some', 'Any' (အချို့ / ဘယ်လိုမှ)

Choose the correct sentence.

Which is correct?

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: လုံးဝမသိဘူး
Particle must be before the verb.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: The Particle (လုံးဝ) for 'Completely'

Correct the word order: 'Many apples'.

Find and fix the mistake:

အများကြီး ပန်းသီး

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ပန်းသီး အများကြီး
In Burmese, the noun must come before the quantifier.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Quantifiers: 'Many', 'Few' (အများကြီး / အနည်းငယ်)

Fix the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

မစားဘူးလုံးဝ

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: လုံးဝမစားဘူး
Correct word order.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: The Particle (လုံးဝ) for 'Completely'

Fill in the blank.

နေ့___ ကျောင်းသွားတယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: တိုင်း
Correct distributive particle.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using (တိုင်း) for 'Every'

Fill in the blank.

သူက ___ မသိဘူး။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: လုံးဝ
Used for 'not at all'.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: The Particle (လုံးဝ) for 'Completely'

Fill in the correct demonstrative.

___ စာအုပ်က ကျွန်တော့်ဟာ (This book is mine).

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ဒီ
The speaker is talking about 'this' book.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using Demonstratives with Nouns (ဒီစာအုပ်)

Fix the error.

Find and fix the mistake:

သူ စား တိုင်း ရေသောက်တယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: သူ စားတိုင်း ရေသောက်တယ်။
Remove space.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using (တိုင်း) for 'Every'

Score: /10

Preguntas frecuentes (6)

Yes, but you usually add the location particle 'ma' to get 'Di-ma' (ဒီမှာ).
'Ho' is for physical distance from both people. 'Ae-di' is for things near the listener or things in the mind/conversation.
Yes, lu achyo means 'some people'. In spoken Burmese, you might also hear lu ta-cho.
be-thu-hma is used with negative verbs to mean 'no one'. be-thu-ma-so is used with positive verbs to mean 'anyone/whoever'.
Yes! Unlike English, which distinguishes between 'many' (countable) and 'much' (uncountable), Burmese uses အများကြီး for both.
နည်းနည်း is used in daily conversation, while အနည်းငယ် is used in books, news, and formal speeches.
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