Explaining Yourself: Giving Reasons with 'Because'
Chapter in 30 Seconds
Master the art of explaining your actions and decisions clearly in Burmese.
- Connect reasons to your actions using natural conjunctions.
- Distinguish between casual and formal ways to explain 'why'.
- Structure sentences to highlight cause and effect effectively.
Ce que tu vas apprendre
Learn to connect actions with their causes using the Burmese equivalent of 'because'. This chapter helps you explain why things happen or why you do something.
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: Use 'ကြောင့်' to link a reason to an action in a simple sentence.
Conseils et astuces (4)
The 'Reason First' Rule
Keep it short
The 'Thee' Rule
Keep it simple
Vocabulaire clé (6)
Real-World Preview
Why are you late?
Review Summary
- [Reason] + ကြောင့် + [Action]
- [Reason] + အကြောင်းကြောင့် + [Action]
- ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့ + [Reason]
Erreurs courantes
In Burmese, the cause must come before the effect. You cannot put the reason after the main action.
You need the full phrase 'ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့' to correctly introduce an answer to a 'why' question.
'အကြောင်းကြောင့်' requires a preceding clause to explain what the reason actually is.
Règles dans ce chapitre (6)
Next Steps
You have done an amazing job today! Keep practicing these structures in your daily conversations, and you'll be speaking Burmese naturally in no time.
Write a 5-sentence paragraph explaining why you started learning Burmese.
Pratique rapide (10)
Which sentence is correct?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Connecting Reasons to Actions
Choose the formal version.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
Find and fix the mistake:
စားတယ်သောကြောင့် ဗိုက်ဝတယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using (သောကြောင့်) for Formal Reasons
Find and fix the mistake:
မိုးရွာအတွက် မသွားဘူး။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Cause and Effect Sentences
Find and fix the mistake:
ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့ သူ ဖျားလို့ သူ မလာဘူး။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
မိုးရွာ ___ အိမ်မှာနေမယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Cause and Effect Sentences
Choose the best option:
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using (သောကြောင့်) for Formal Reasons
ဗိုက်ဆာ ___ စားတယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Giving Reasons with 'Because' (လို့ / ကြောင့်)
သူ မလာဘူး ___ သူ ဖျားနေလို့ပါ။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
Choose the best sentence.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
Score: /10
Questions fréquentes (6)
လို့ (lo) instead. Using သောကြောင့် with family might make them think you are reading from a book.