Signification
Observing a situation.
Contexte culturel
The concept of 'An-ah-de' (feeling reluctant to impose) often leads people to use 'စောင့်ကြည့်' as a polite way to delay a decision without saying 'no'. In Myanmar business, 'saung kyi' is a common strategy during periods of inflation or policy change. It's seen as wise rather than indecisive. Netizens in Myanmar use 'စောင့်ကြည့်' to describe following viral 'celeb' (celebrity) scandals, often using the emoji 🍿 (popcorn) alongside the phrase. Traditional healers often ask families to 'saung kyi' the effect of a herbal remedy over three days, reflecting a belief in gradual healing.
The 'Doctor' Rule
If you are talking about a patient, always use 'စောင့်ကြည့်'. It sounds professional and caring.
Don't be a Stalker
Using 'စောင့်ကြည့်' for a person you like can sound like you are stalking them. Use 'သဘောကျတယ်' (I like them) instead!
Signification
Observing a situation.
The 'Doctor' Rule
If you are talking about a patient, always use 'စောင့်ကြည့်'. It sounds professional and caring.
Don't be a Stalker
Using 'စောင့်ကြည့်' for a person you like can sound like you are stalking them. Use 'သဘောကျတယ်' (I like them) instead!
News Fluency
If you want to sound like a native news reader, use the phrase 'အခြေအနေကို မျက်ခြေမပြတ် စောင့်ကြည့်နေပါတယ်'.
Polite Delay
Use 'စောင့်ကြည့်ဦးမယ်' when you want to say 'no' to a salesperson without being rude.
Teste-toi
Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'စောင့်ကြည့်'.
ဆရာဝန်က လူနာကို ________ နေတယ်။
In a medical context with a doctor and a patient, 'monitoring' (စောင့်ကြည့်) is the correct term.
Which sentence is correct for 'Let's wait and see the situation'?
Choose the best translation:
The compound 'စောင့်ကြည့်' combined with 'ရအောင်' (let's) is the natural way to express this.
Complete the dialogue.
A: မိုးရွာတော့မယ် ထင်တယ်။ B: ဟုတ်တယ်၊ တိမ်တွေကို ________ လိုက်ဦး။
You should 'monitor' the clouds to see if it will rain.
Match the phrase to the situation.
When would you use 'မျက်ခြေမပြတ် စောင့်ကြည့်' (Monitor without losing sight)?
'မျက်ခြေမပြတ်' implies intense, uninterrupted monitoring.
🎉 Score : /4
Aides visuelles
Kyi vs. Saung Kyi
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesဆရာဝန်က လူနာကို ________ နေတယ်။
In a medical context with a doctor and a patient, 'monitoring' (စောင့်ကြည့်) is the correct term.
Choose the best translation:
The compound 'စောင့်ကြည့်' combined with 'ရအောင်' (let's) is the natural way to express this.
A: မိုးရွာတော့မယ် ထင်တယ်။ B: ဟုတ်တယ်၊ တိမ်တွေကို ________ လိုက်ဦး။
You should 'monitor' the clouds to see if it will rain.
When would you use 'မျက်ခြေမပြတ် စောင့်ကြည့်' (Monitor without losing sight)?
'မျက်ခြေမပြတ်' implies intense, uninterrupted monitoring.
🎉 Score : /4
Questions fréquentes
10 questionsUsually no. Use 'ဘောလုံးပွဲကြည့်'. However, if you are a scout monitoring a specific player's performance, you could use 'စောင့်ကြည့်'.
It is neutral. It works in a hospital, a newsroom, or at home with your family.
'စောင့်ကြည့်' is about watching a process or situation. 'အကဲခတ်' is about judging or evaluating someone's hidden qualities.
You would say 'ကျွန်တော့်ကို စောင့်ကြည့်ခံနေရတယ်' (I am receiving monitoring).
Yes, you can say 'သူ့ပို့စ်တွေကို စောင့်ကြည့်နေတယ်' (I'm monitoring his posts).
It can, but not always. In a medical context, it implies care. In a political context, it might imply suspicion.
Yes, add 'ခဲ့တယ်' (saung kyi khae de).
Yes, it's very common for monitoring storms or rain.
Using it for 'watching TV' or 'waiting for a bus'.
It is a verb. To make it a noun, add 'ခြင်း' (saung kyi jin).
Expressions liées
အကဲခတ်
similarTo assess or size up
ကြည့်ရှု
formalTo view or observe
စောင့်ရှောက်
builds onTo take care of
မျက်ခြေမပြတ်
specialized formWithout losing sight
လျစ်လျူရှု
contrastTo ignore
