Signification
Occurring occasionally.
Contexte culturel
In teashops, 'တစ်ခါတလေ' is used to discuss the availability of specific snacks like 'Samosas' or 'E-kyar-kway' which might sell out early. Burmese people use 'sometimes' to avoid a direct 'no' or to show modesty about their skills. When talking about going to the Pagoda, people use 'တစ်ခါတလေ' if they aren't daily devotees but go on special days. On Burmese Facebook, 'တစ်ခါတလေ' is a keyword for 'relatable' posts about life's ups and downs.
Start your sentences with it
If you're unsure where to put it, just start the sentence with 'တစ်ခါတလေ'. It's always grammatically correct there.
Don't use for 'Maybe'
Remember, this is for frequency. If you want to say 'Maybe I'll go,' use 'သွားရင် သွားမယ်'.
Signification
Occurring occasionally.
Start your sentences with it
If you're unsure where to put it, just start the sentence with 'တစ်ခါတလေ'. It's always grammatically correct there.
Don't use for 'Maybe'
Remember, this is for frequency. If you want to say 'Maybe I'll go,' use 'သွားရင် သွားမယ်'.
The 'Softener'
Use it to make your complaints sound more polite. Instead of 'The food is bad,' say 'Sometimes the food is not so good.'
Teste-toi
Choose the most natural sentence for 'Sometimes I drink tea.'
Which one is correct?
The adverb 'တစ်ခါတလေ' should ideally come at the beginning of the sentence or before the verb phrase.
Fill in the blank with the word for 'sometimes'.
________ ကျွန်မ ဈေးသွားတယ်။ (Sometimes I go to the market.)
တစ်ခါတလေ means sometimes. အမြဲတမ်း means always, and ဘယ်တော့မှ means never.
Match the frequency to the situation.
If you go to the gym once a week, which word fits best?
Once a week is an occasional habit, making 'sometimes' the best fit.
Complete the dialogue.
A: မင်း အမဲသား စားသလား။ (Do you eat beef?) B: ________ စားပါတယ်။ (I eat it sometimes.)
The context asks about a habit, so a frequency adverb is needed.
🎉 Score : /4
Aides visuelles
Frequency Scale in Burmese
High
- • အမြဲတမ်း (Always)
- • ခဏခဏ (Often)
Medium
- • တစ်ခါတလေ (Sometimes)
Low
- • ရှားရှားပါးပါး (Rarely)
- • ဘယ်တော့မှ (Never)
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesWhich one is correct?
The adverb 'တစ်ခါတလေ' should ideally come at the beginning of the sentence or before the verb phrase.
________ ကျွန်မ ဈေးသွားတယ်။ (Sometimes I go to the market.)
တစ်ခါတလေ means sometimes. အမြဲတမ်း means always, and ဘယ်တော့မှ means never.
If you go to the gym once a week, which word fits best?
Once a week is an occasional habit, making 'sometimes' the best fit.
A: မင်း အမဲသား စားသလား။ (Do you eat beef?) B: ________ စားပါတယ်။ (I eat it sometimes.)
The context asks about a habit, so a frequency adverb is needed.
🎉 Score : /4
Questions fréquentes
10 questionsNo, it is neutral/informal. Use 'တခါတရံ' for formal writing.
It's better not to. It sounds much more natural at the beginning or after the subject.
'တစ်ခါတလေ' is 'sometimes' (low frequency), 'ခဏခဏ' is 'often' (high frequency).
တစ်ခါတလေ (with the 'ta-lin-che' symbol for 'ta').
No, frequency adverbs in Burmese do not change based on the speaker's gender.
Yes! 'တစ်ခါတလေ သွားခဲ့တယ်' (I sometimes went).
Yes, it's a very common word in romantic pop songs to describe occasional feelings.
In this context, it's part of the fixed expression, but 'lay' often adds a sense of 'usually' or 'softness'.
Yes, repeating the whole phrase adds emphasis, like 'Very occasionally'.
Yes, it is perfectly fine for spoken business communication.
Expressions liées
အမြဲတမ်း
contrastAlways
ခဏခဏ
similarOften
ရှားရှားပါးပါး
similarRarely
တခါတရံ
synonymSometimes (Formal)
ဘယ်တော့မှ
contrastNever
