Signification
Taking care of a child.
Contexte culturel
Childcare is often seen as the duty of the eldest daughter if parents are busy. This is called 'A-Ma-Gyi' culture. Professional nannies are often called 'A-Daw' (Auntie) as a sign of respect, even if they are paid employees. Children are often looked after by the whole village. A neighbor might 'htein' your child while you go to the market without being asked. On Burmese Facebook, 'ကလေးထိန်း' is sometimes used jokingly by husbands to describe looking after their wives when they are 'moody'.
Add 'Pay'
Always add 'pay' (ပေး) when you are doing it as a favor for someone else. It sounds much more natural.
Don't say 'Watch'
Avoid literally translating 'I am watching the kid' as 'Kyi-deh'. It sounds like you are just staring at them!
Signification
Taking care of a child.
Add 'Pay'
Always add 'pay' (ပေး) when you are doing it as a favor for someone else. It sounds much more natural.
Don't say 'Watch'
Avoid literally translating 'I am watching the kid' as 'Kyi-deh'. It sounds like you are just staring at them!
Job Titles
If you are a professional, call yourself a 'ကလေးထိန်းဆရာမ' (Childcare teacher/nanny) for more prestige.
Teste-toi
Fill in the blank with the correct verb form.
ကျွန်တော် ဒီနေ့ အိမ်မှာ ကလေး _________ တယ်။
'Htein' is the verb for looking after a child.
Which sentence means 'I am currently babysitting'?
Choose the correct sentence:
'Nay' indicates a continuous action.
Complete the dialogue.
A: မင်း ဘာလို့ မလာတာလဲ? B: _________ ရမှာမို့လို့ပါ။
Babysitting is a common reason for being busy.
Match the Burmese to the English.
Match the following:
These are the standard translations.
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Aides visuelles
Childcare Actions
Action
- • ထိန်း (Care)
- • ချော့ (Soothe)
- • ကျွေး (Feed)
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesကျွန်တော် ဒီနေ့ အိမ်မှာ ကလေး _________ တယ်။
'Htein' is the verb for looking after a child.
Choose the correct sentence:
'Nay' indicates a continuous action.
A: မင်း ဘာလို့ မလာတာလဲ? B: _________ ရမှာမို့လို့ပါ။
Babysitting is a common reason for being busy.
Associez chaque element a gauche avec son pair a droite :
These are the standard translations.
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Questions fréquentes
10 questionsYes, parents use it all the time to describe their daily duties.
No, both men and women use 'ကလေးထိန်းတယ်'.
'Htein' is active care; 'Saung' is just waiting or guarding.
You say 'ကလေးထိန်းတစ်ယောက် လိုချင်တယ်' (Ka-lay-htein ta-yout lo-chin-deh).
Yes, especially if they are seen as part of the family.
No, for pets we usually say 'ခွေးကျောင်းတယ်' (walking the dog) or 'အစာကျွေးတယ်' (feeding).
'ကလေးထိန်းကျောင်းခြင်း' (Ka-lay-htein-kyaung-chin).
Not necessarily, but 'Htein' does imply they need to be kept under control.
No, only for children (usually under 12).
Say 'ကျွန်တော် ကလေးထိန်းတာ တော်တယ်' (Kyun-taw ka-lay-htein-dar taw-deh).
Expressions liées
ကလေးချော့တယ်
similarTo soothe or lull a baby to sleep.
ကလေးကစားတယ်
similarTo play with a child.
လူကြီးထိန်း
contrastTo look after an elderly person.
ကလေးထိန်းကျောင်း
specialized formTo nurture and educate.
