Signification
Asking for the day of the week.
Contexte culturel
The Burmese week has 8 days. Wednesday is split into 'Wednesday Morning' and 'Wednesday Afternoon' (Rahu). People might ask 'ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့လဲ' to know if it's Rahu time. Your name is based on the day you were born. For example, Monday-borns often have names starting with K, G, or Ng. Asking the day is the first step to identifying someone's 'zodiac' animal. On 'Uposatha' (Sabbath) days, which occur four times a month, many shops might close or people might go to the pagoda. Asking the day helps confirm if it's a Sabbath day. In many parts of Myanmar, markets rotate every five days. People ask 'ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့လဲ' to know which village is hosting the market that day.
The 'Lal' Rule
Always use 'Lal' for 'What' questions. If you use 'Lar', you're asking a Yes/No question.
Date vs Day
Don't use this at the airport or bank when they ask for the date. Use 'ရက်' (yet) there.
Signification
Asking for the day of the week.
The 'Lal' Rule
Always use 'Lal' for 'What' questions. If you use 'Lar', you're asking a Yes/No question.
Date vs Day
Don't use this at the airport or bank when they ask for the date. Use 'ရက်' (yet) there.
Politeness Matters
Add 'Khun-mya' (male) or 'Shin' (female) to sound like a native speaker who has good manners.
Wednesday Split
If someone says it's 'Rahu', they mean it's Wednesday afternoon!
Teste-toi
Fill in the missing word to ask 'What day is it today?'
ဒီနေ့ ဘာ___လဲ။
'နေ့' (nay) means day of the week, which is what is being asked.
Which particle is correct for this 'what' question?
ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့___။
'လဲ' (lal) is used for questions containing interrogative pronouns like 'what' (bar).
Complete the dialogue.
A: ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့လဲ။ B: ဒီနေ့ _________ နေ့ပါ။
'တနင်္လာ' (Ta nin lar) means Monday, a valid answer to the question.
Match the phrase to the situation.
Asking a monk what day it is.
Adding 'ဘုရား' (Phayar) is necessary when speaking to a monk.
🎉 Score : /4
Aides visuelles
Day vs. Date
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesဒီနေ့ ဘာ___လဲ။
'နေ့' (nay) means day of the week, which is what is being asked.
ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့___။
'လဲ' (lal) is used for questions containing interrogative pronouns like 'what' (bar).
A: ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့လဲ။ B: ဒီနေ့ _________ နေ့ပါ။
'တနင်္လာ' (Ta nin lar) means Monday, a valid answer to the question.
Asking a monk what day it is.
Adding 'ဘုရား' (Phayar) is necessary when speaking to a monk.
🎉 Score : /4
Questions fréquentes
12 questionsSay 'ဒီနေ့ [Day Name] နေ့ပါ။' For example: 'ဒီနေ့ တနင်္လာနေ့ပါ။' (Today is Monday.)
Monday: Taninla, Tuesday: Inga, Wednesday: Boddahu, Thursday: Kyathabade, Friday: Thaukyar, Saturday: Sane, Sunday: Tanin-ganway.
Yes, if the context of 'today' is already clear, you can shorten it.
No, but always add the polite particles 'kamyar' or 'shint' to be safe.
Say 'ပါတီက ဘာနေ့လဲ' (Party-ga bar nay lal).
It's for astrological purposes; Wednesday is split at 6 PM into Wednesday morning and Rahu.
It's neutral/colloquial. 'Ya nay' is the formal/literary equivalent.
Say 'ဒီနေ့ ဘာနေ့လဲ မသိဘူး' (Di nay bar nay lal ma thi bu).
Yes, but it can also mean 'sun' or 'to stay/live' depending on the context and tone.
Confusing it with 'What is the date?' (Di nay bar yet lal).
No, for that use 'ရက်' (yet).
Not really. Burmese is quite strict with the question particle at the end.
Expressions liées
ဒီနေ့ ဘာရက်လဲ
similarWhat is the date today?
အခု ဘယ်နှစ်နာရီလဲ
similarWhat time is it now?
မနက်ဖြန် ဘာနေ့လဲ
builds onWhat day is tomorrow?
မနေ့က ဘာနေ့လဲ
builds onWhat day was yesterday?
ဒီနေ့ အားလား
similarAre you free today?
