Signification
Buying now and paying later.
Contexte culturel
The 'Saryoke' (notebook) is a sacred object in local shops. Losing it can cause a community crisis as all debts are recorded there. Many regular customers pay their 'A-kyway' on a weekly basis, usually on Friday or Saturday after receiving their wages. In villages, 'A-kyway' is often settled with goods like rice or oil instead of cash, a form of modern bartering. Younger generations are moving away from 'A-kyway' at shops and using digital 'Buy Now Pay Later' apps, though they still use the same terminology.
Always be polite
When asking for credit, always use 'Khine-yar' or 'Shin' and a smile. It's a favor, not a right.
Don't forget to pay
Reputation is everything in Myanmar. If you forget to pay your 'A-kyway,' you might find it hard to shop in that neighborhood again.
Signification
Buying now and paying later.
Always be polite
When asking for credit, always use 'Khine-yar' or 'Shin' and a smile. It's a favor, not a right.
Don't forget to pay
Reputation is everything in Myanmar. If you forget to pay your 'A-kyway,' you might find it hard to shop in that neighborhood again.
The 'Saryoke' check
If you buy on credit often, ask 'Saryin lay kyi pay bar' (Please check the account) once a week to stay on top of it.
Teste-toi
Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'buy on credit'.
ကျွန်တော့်မှာ ပိုက်ဆံမပါလို့ ဒီနေ့တော့ _______ မယ်။
The speaker doesn't have money, so they will 'buy on credit' (အကြွေးဝယ်).
Which situation is appropriate for using 'အကြွေးဝယ်တယ်'?
ဘယ်နေရာမှာ အကြွေးဝယ်လို့ရသလဲ?
Informal credit is only common in local neighborhood shops.
Complete the dialogue between a customer and a shopkeeper.
Customer: အန်တီ၊ ဒီနေ့ အကြွေးဝယ်လို့ရမလား? Shopkeeper: ___________။
The shopkeeper agrees and says they will record it in the account.
Match the phrase to the correct meaning.
Match: 1. အကြွေးဝယ်တယ်, 2. အကြွေးဆပ်တယ်, 3. အကြွေးတောင်းတယ်
Wal = Buy, Sat = Repay, Taung = Collect.
🎉 Score : /4
Aides visuelles
Where can you use 'A-kyway wal'?
Yes
- • Tea Shop
- • Corner Store
- • Market Stall
No
- • Supermarket
- • Mall
- • Airport
Banque d exercices
4 exercicesကျွန်တော့်မှာ ပိုက်ဆံမပါလို့ ဒီနေ့တော့ _______ မယ်။
The speaker doesn't have money, so they will 'buy on credit' (အကြွေးဝယ်).
ဘယ်နေရာမှာ အကြွေးဝယ်လို့ရသလဲ?
Informal credit is only common in local neighborhood shops.
Customer: အန်တီ၊ ဒီနေ့ အကြွေးဝယ်လို့ရမလား? Shopkeeper: ___________။
The shopkeeper agrees and says they will record it in the account.
Match: 1. အကြွေးဝယ်တယ်, 2. အကြွေးဆပ်တယ်, 3. အကြွေးတောင်းတယ်
Wal = Buy, Sat = Repay, Taung = Collect.
🎉 Score : /4
Questions fréquentes
4 questionsUsually, no. It's a service provided to loyal customers to ensure they keep coming back.
Yes, if you live in the neighborhood and the shopkeeper knows you well. It's a great way to integrate!
There is no fixed limit; it depends entirely on your relationship with the owner and your past repayment history.
You say 'အကြွေးဆပ်မလို့ပါ' (A-kyway sat ma lo par).
Expressions liées
အကြွေးဆပ်တယ်
contrastTo repay a debt.
အကြွေးတောင်းတယ်
contrastTo collect a debt.
လက်ငင်းဝယ်တယ်
contrastTo buy with cash (spot payment).
အကြွေးတင်တယ်
builds onTo be in debt.
