Signification
A container for carrying money.
Contexte culturel
It is common to see people keeping small religious amulets or photos of parents/teachers in their wallets for protection and blessings. When paying, it is polite to take the money out of the wallet and hand it over with both hands, or with the right hand while the left hand touches the right elbow. A 'full' wallet is a sign of good 'Kan' (karma). People often avoid spending the very last note in their wallet to ensure money keeps 'flowing in'. During Thingyan (New Year), people often put their wallets in waterproof plastic bags to protect them from water throwing.
The 'Lone' Rule
Always use 'Lone' for wallets. It makes you sound much more like a native speaker than using 'Khu'.
Floor Taboo
Seriously, don't put it on the floor. People might actually pick it up for you and look worried!
Signification
A container for carrying money.
The 'Lone' Rule
Always use 'Lone' for wallets. It makes you sound much more like a native speaker than using 'Khu'.
Floor Taboo
Seriously, don't put it on the floor. People might actually pick it up for you and look worried!
Digital vs Physical
If you are using a phone app to pay, just say 'KPay နဲ့ ပေးမယ်' (I'll pay with KPay) instead of using the word for wallet.
Lucky Money
If you buy a wallet for a Burmese friend, put a 1000 Kyat note inside. It's a beautiful gesture of wishing them wealth.
Teste-toi
Fill in the correct classifier for a wallet.
ကျွန်တော့်မှာ ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် တစ်_____ ရှိတယ်။
'လုံး' (lone) is the classifier for round or 3D objects like wallets.
Which sentence means 'I forgot my wallet'?
Choose the correct translation:
'မေ့ကျန်ခဲ့တယ်' means 'forgot and left behind'.
Match the Burmese phrase to its English meaning.
Match the following:
These are common collocations with 'Pikesan-ate'.
Complete the dialogue at a shop.
Seller: 'ဒီပိုက်ဆံအိတ်က သုံးသောင်းပါ။' Customer: 'ဈေးကြီးလိုက်တာ၊ _________ မလောက်ဘူး။'
The customer is saying they don't have enough money (pikesan).
🎉 Score : /4
Aides visuelles
Common Bag Types
Personal
- • ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် (Wallet)
- • လက်ကိုင်အိတ် (Handbag)
Travel
- • လွယ်အိတ် (Shoulder bag)
- • ကျောပိုးအိတ် (Backpack)
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesကျွန်တော့်မှာ ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် တစ်_____ ရှိတယ်။
'လုံး' (lone) is the classifier for round or 3D objects like wallets.
Choose the correct translation:
'မေ့ကျန်ခဲ့တယ်' means 'forgot and left behind'.
Associez chaque element a gauche avec son pair a droite :
These are common collocations with 'Pikesan-ate'.
Seller: 'ဒီပိုက်ဆံအိတ်က သုံးသောင်းပါ။' Customer: 'ဈေးကြီးလိုက်တာ၊ _________ မလောက်ဘူး။'
The customer is saying they don't have enough money (pikesan).
🎉 Score : /4
Questions fréquentes
10 questionsYes, it is a gender-neutral term for any wallet or small purse.
You can if the context is clear, but 'Ate' alone just means 'bag'.
The formal word is 'ငွေအိတ်' (Ngway-ate).
Say 'ကျွန်တော့် ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် ပျောက်သွားလို့ပါခင်ဗျာ' (for males).
Yes, in big cities like Yangon, 'Wallet' is common among younger people.
Yes, it's common, but be careful of pickpockets in crowded markets!
Use 'လုံး' (lone). Example: 'ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် သုံးလုံး' (three wallets).
Yes, literally it means money/cash, but 'Pikesan-ate' holds cards too.
Yes, though you can also call it 'အကြွေအိတ်' (A-kyway-ate).
People say 'ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် ဖောင်းတယ်' (The wallet is swollen).
Expressions liées
လက်ကိုင်အိတ်
similarHandbag
အိတ်ကပ်
similarလွယ်အိတ်
similarShoulder bag / Satchel
ငွေစုဘူး
builds onPiggy bank
ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ် ပိုက်ဆံအိတ်
specialized formDigital wallet
