Explaining Yourself: Giving Reasons with 'Because'
Chapter in 30 Seconds
Master the art of explaining your actions and decisions clearly in Burmese.
- Connect reasons to your actions using natural conjunctions.
- Distinguish between casual and formal ways to explain 'why'.
- Structure sentences to highlight cause and effect effectively.
学べること
Learn to connect actions with their causes using the Burmese equivalent of 'because'. This chapter helps you explain why things happen or why you do something.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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By the end you will be able to: Use 'ကြောင့်' to link a reason to an action in a simple sentence.
ヒントとコツ (4)
The 'Reason First' Rule
Keep it short
The 'Thee' Rule
Keep it simple
重要な語彙 (6)
Real-World Preview
Why are you late?
Review Summary
- [Reason] + ကြောင့် + [Action]
- [Reason] + အကြောင်းကြောင့် + [Action]
- ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့ + [Reason]
よくある間違い
In Burmese, the cause must come before the effect. You cannot put the reason after the main action.
You need the full phrase 'ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့' to correctly introduce an answer to a 'why' question.
'အကြောင်းကြောင့်' requires a preceding clause to explain what the reason actually is.
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Next Steps
You have done an amazing job today! Keep practicing these structures in your daily conversations, and you'll be speaking Burmese naturally in no time.
Write a 5-sentence paragraph explaining why you started learning Burmese.
クイック練習 (10)
Find and fix the mistake:
ကြောင့် မိုးရွာလို့ အိမ်မှာနေတယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Giving Reasons with 'Because' (လို့ / ကြောင့်)
မိုးရွာ ___ အိမ်မှာနေမယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Cause and Effect Sentences
Find and fix the mistake:
ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့ သူ ဖျားလို့ သူ မလာဘူး။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
Select the formal particle.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Cause and Effect Sentences
Which is correct?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Cause and Effect Sentences
သူ မလာဘူး ___ သူ ဖျားနေလို့ပါ။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
သူမ မသွားဘူး၊ ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့ ပိုက်ဆံ မရှိ___။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Explaining Why (ဘာလို့လဲဆိုတော့)
Find and fix the mistake:
ဈေးကြီး ဝယ်မယ်လို့။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Connecting Reasons to Actions
Which sentence is correct?
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Connecting Reasons to Actions
Find and fix the mistake:
စားတယ်သောကြောင့် ဗိုက်ဝတယ်။
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Using (သောကြောင့်) for Formal Reasons
Score: /10
よくある質問 (6)
လို့ (lo) instead. Using သောကြောင့် with family might make them think you are reading from a book.