A1 Expression Neutre

ယုံကြည်တယ်

ယကညတယ

To believe/trust

Signification

Having faith in someone or something.

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Contexte culturel

Trust is often built through 'tea shop culture.' Business deals are rarely finalized in offices; they are finalized over tea where 'ယုံကြည်မှု' is established personally. The word is linked to 'Saddha' (faith). It's not just believing in a deity, but having faith in the law of cause and effect (Karma). Younger generations use 'ယုံကြည်တယ်' to mean 'I'm with you' or 'I support you' during social movements or online debates. Breaking a promise after saying 'ယုံကြည်တယ်' can lead to a total social boycott in small business communities.

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The Short Form

Use 'Yone Tal' for 90% of casual conversations. It sounds more natural and less 'textbook.'

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The 'Ko' Particle

Never say 'I trust you' without 'ko'. It's like saying 'I trust you' but forgetting the 'you' is the object.

Signification

Having faith in someone or something.

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The Short Form

Use 'Yone Tal' for 90% of casual conversations. It sounds more natural and less 'textbook.'

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The 'Ko' Particle

Never say 'I trust you' without 'ko'. It's like saying 'I trust you' but forgetting the 'you' is the object.

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Self-Confidence

If you want to sound confident in an interview, say 'Yone Kyi Hmu Shi Par Tal' (I have confidence).

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Religious Nuance

When talking about religion, use the full 'Yone Kyi Tal' to show respect.

Teste-toi

Fill in the missing object marker.

ကျွန်တော် မင်း___ ယုံကြည်တယ်။

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : ကို

The particle 'ကို' (ko) is used to mark the object of trust.

How do you say 'I don't believe'?

Choose the correct negative form:

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : မယုံကြည်ဘူး

Verbs are negated by placing 'မ' before the root and 'ဘူး' at the end.

Match the phrase to the situation.

Which phrase is best for a job interview?

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို ယုံကြည်မှုရှိပါတယ်

This means 'I have self-confidence,' which is appropriate for an interview.

Complete the dialogue.

A: ဒီသတင်းက အစစ်လား။ (Is this news real?) B: _________။ (I don't believe it.)

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : မယုံကြည်ဘူး

B is expressing skepticism about the news.

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Aides visuelles

Believe vs. Think

ယုံကြည်တယ် (Believe)
Truth Facts/Trust
ထင်တယ် (Think)
Opinion Guesses

Banque d exercices

4 exercices
Fill in the missing object marker. Fill Blank A1

ကျွန်တော် မင်း___ ယုံကြည်တယ်။

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : ကို

The particle 'ကို' (ko) is used to mark the object of trust.

How do you say 'I don't believe'? Choose A1

Choose the correct negative form:

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : မယုံကြည်ဘူး

Verbs are negated by placing 'မ' before the root and 'ဘူး' at the end.

Match the phrase to the situation. situation_matching A2

Which phrase is best for a job interview?

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို ယုံကြည်မှုရှိပါတယ်

This means 'I have self-confidence,' which is appropriate for an interview.

Complete the dialogue. dialogue_completion A2

A: ဒီသတင်းက အစစ်လား။ (Is this news real?) B: _________။ (I don't believe it.)

✓ Correct ! ✗ Pas tout à fait. Rponse correcte : မယုံကြည်ဘူး

B is expressing skepticism about the news.

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Questions fréquentes

12 questions

It is neutral. For very formal writing, use 'Yone Kyi Thee'. For very casual speech, use 'Yone Tal'.

No, use 'Htin Tal' for opinions or guesses.

ဘုရားသခင်ကို ယုံကြည်တယ် (Phayar Tha Khin Ko Yone Kyi Tal).

'Yone' is the root 'to trust'. 'Yone Kyi' is the full compound word. They are mostly interchangeable in speech.

No, 'to hope' is 'မျှော်လင့်တယ်' (Hmyaw Lint Tal).

ငါ့ကို ယုံကြည်ပါ (Ngar Ko Yone Kyi Par).

Yes, it is vital for establishing verbal agreements.

Yes, followed by the particle 'ဆိုတာကို' (so-dar-ko).

ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို ယုံကြည်မှု (Ko-ko-ko Yone Kyi Hmu).

Yes, people sometimes say 'အပြည့်ပဲ' (A-pyae-bal) meaning 'I'm full of trust'.

သူ့ကို မယုံတော့ဘူး (Thu ko ma yone taw bu).

Yes, it is in the top 100 most used Burmese words.

Expressions liées

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ယုံကြည်မှု

builds on

Trust / Confidence (Noun)

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စိတ်ချတယ်

similar

To feel secure / To rely on

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အားကိုးတယ်

similar

To depend on

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သံသယရှိတယ်

contrast

To have doubt

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ယုံကြည်ချက်

specialized form

Conviction / Principle

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