Signification
Relatives living together.
Contexte culturel
Family is the ultimate safety net. In the absence of strong state social security, the 'Mi Thar Su' provides for the elderly and the unemployed. This creates a culture of deep interdependence. In villages, 'family' often extends to the whole street. Neighbors are often treated as 'Mi Thar Su' members, sharing food and labor during harvest. Modernization is leading to more nuclear families living in apartments, but the 'Sunday family dinner' at the parents' house remains a sacred ritual. Families often perform 'Ah-hlu' (donations) together to gain merit as a unit. They believe that being in the same 'Mi Thar Su' is a result of past life connections.
The 'Win' Suffix
Add 'Win' (ဝင်) to the end to talk about 'family members' specifically. It makes you sound much more fluent.
Tone Matters
Make sure 'Mi' and 'Su' are short. If you drag them out, it might sound like different words.
Signification
Relatives living together.
The 'Win' Suffix
Add 'Win' (ဝင်) to the end to talk about 'family members' specifically. It makes you sound much more fluent.
Tone Matters
Make sure 'Mi' and 'Su' are short. If you drag them out, it might sound like different words.
Collective Identity
When talking about your achievements, always mention your 'Mi Thar Su'. It shows humility and cultural awareness.
Teste-toi
Fill in the blank with the correct word for 'family'.
ကျွန်တော့် ______ မှာ လူလေးယောက်ရှိပါတယ်။
The sentence says 'There are four people in my ____.' 'Mi Thar Su' (family) is the only one that fits the context of people living together.
Which classifier is used to count family units?
မိသားစု သုံး____
'Su' is the classifier for groups or collections, including families. 'Yauk' is for individual people.
Complete the dialogue.
A: မိသားစုနဲ့ နေတာလား။ B: ဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ _________။
The question asks 'Do you live with your family?' The answer should confirm 'Yes, I live with my family.'
Match the Burmese word to its English meaning.
1. မိသားစုဝင်, 2. မိသားစုဓာတ်ပုံ, 3. မိသားစုအရေး
'Win' means member, 'Dat-pon' means photo, and 'Aye' means matter/affair.
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Aides visuelles
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesကျွန်တော့် ______ မှာ လူလေးယောက်ရှိပါတယ်။
The sentence says 'There are four people in my ____.' 'Mi Thar Su' (family) is the only one that fits the context of people living together.
မိသားစု သုံး____
'Su' is the classifier for groups or collections, including families. 'Yauk' is for individual people.
A: မိသားစုနဲ့ နေတာလား။ B: ဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ _________။
The question asks 'Do you live with your family?' The answer should confirm 'Yes, I live with my family.'
Associez chaque element a gauche avec son pair a droite :
'Win' means member, 'Dat-pon' means photo, and 'Aye' means matter/affair.
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Questions fréquentes
4 questionsIn modern urban Myanmar, yes! People often say 'Our dog is a family member' (ကျွန်တော်တို့ ခွေးလေးက မိသားစုဝင် တစ်ယောက်ပါ).
Yes, if you are very close, you can say 'They are like family' (မိသားစုလိုပါပဲ).
'Mi Thar Su' is the emotional/social term. 'Aing Daung Su' is the administrative/legal term for a household.
It is 'မိသားစု သစ်ပင်' (Mi Thar Su Thit Pin) or more formally 'ဆွေစဉ်မျိုးဆက်' (Swe Zin Myo Set).
Expressions liées
အိမ်ထောင်စု
similarHousehold unit
ဆွေမျိုး
similarRelatives
သားသမီး
builds onChildren (Sons and Daughters)
မိဘ
builds onParents
