معنی
The act of consuming coffee.
زمینه فرهنگی
In cities like Yangon, 'drinking coffee' is a primary social activity for youth, often replacing the traditional tea shop visits of their parents. In Pyin Oo Lwin and Ywangan, drinking coffee is a point of local pride as they grow some of the best beans in Southeast Asia. Even in coffee culture, the 'free green tea' (yay-nway-gyan) is almost always present on the table to be drunk alongside the coffee. 3-in-1 instant coffee packets are the standard for 'drinking coffee' in office environments due to convenience.
The 'Drink' Rule
Remember that Burmese uses 'thauk' for everything liquid. If you can pour it, you 'thauk' it!
The Invitation
If someone asks 'ကော်ဖီသောက်ပြီးပြီလား' (Have you drunk coffee yet?), they might just be saying hello, similar to 'How are you?'
معنی
The act of consuming coffee.
The 'Drink' Rule
Remember that Burmese uses 'thauk' for everything liquid. If you can pour it, you 'thauk' it!
The Invitation
If someone asks 'ကော်ဖီသောက်ပြီးပြီလား' (Have you drunk coffee yet?), they might just be saying hello, similar to 'How are you?'
Monk Etiquette
Never use 'thauk-tal' when offering coffee to a monk. Use 'kat-par' (please offer).
خودت رو بسنج
Fill in the correct verb for drinking coffee.
ကျွန်တော် မနက်တိုင်း ကော်ဖီ _______။
In Burmese, you 'thauk' (drink) coffee, you don't 'sar' (eat) it.
How do you say 'I want to drink coffee'?
Choose the correct sentence:
The suffix '-chin-tal' expresses a desire or want.
Match the phrase to the situation: 'ကော်ဖီသွားသောက်ရအောင်' (Let's go drink coffee).
When would you say this?
'-ya-aung' is a suggestive ending like 'let's'.
Complete the dialogue.
A: ဘာသောက်မလဲ။ B: _______ တစ်ခွက်သောက်မယ်။
Coffee is the only beverage in the list; the others are food items.
🎉 امتیاز: /4
ابزارهای بصری یادگیری
Types of Coffee to Drink
Temperature
- • ကော်ဖီပူ (Hot)
- • ကော်ဖီအေး (Cold)
Flavor
- • ကော်ဖီခါး (Black)
- • ကော်ဖီချို (Sweet)
بانک تمرین
4 تمرینهاကျွန်တော် မနက်တိုင်း ကော်ဖီ _______။
In Burmese, you 'thauk' (drink) coffee, you don't 'sar' (eat) it.
Choose the correct sentence:
The suffix '-chin-tal' expresses a desire or want.
When would you say this?
'-ya-aung' is a suggestive ending like 'let's'.
A: ဘာသောက်မလဲ။ B: _______ တစ်ခွက်သောက်မယ်။
Coffee is the only beverage in the list; the others are food items.
🎉 امتیاز: /4
سوالات متداول
10 سوالYes, it is a universal loanword used throughout Myanmar.
Yes, but you can be more specific by saying 'ကော်ဖီအေးသောက်တယ်' (kaw-hpe-aye thauk-tal).
You say 'ကော်ဖီ မသောက်ဘူး' (kaw-hpe ma-thauk-bu).
'Thauk-tal' is for speaking; 'thauk-thee' is for formal writing.
Usually, coffee is drunk alone in the morning or as a snack, not typically during lunch or dinner.
No, but it's polite to give a reason, like 'I already drank it' (သောက်ပြီးပြီ).
Say 'သကြားမထည့်နဲ့' (tha-gyar ma-htel-ne).
It's often just called 'Mix' (မစ်စ်) or 'Coffee Mix'.
Yes, 'ဟင်းချိုသောက်တယ်' (drinking soup) is the correct way to say it.
Tea is still more traditional, but coffee is catching up in cities.
عبارات مرتبط
လက်ဖက်ရည်သောက်တယ်
similarTo drink Burmese tea
ရေနွေးကြမ်းသောက်တယ်
similarTo drink green tea
မနက်စာစားတယ်
builds onTo eat breakfast
အအေးသောက်တယ်
similarTo drink a cold drink/juice
