Grammar Rule in 30 Seconds
To negate a verb in Burmese, place 'မ' before the verb and add 'ဘူး' at the end of the sentence.
- Place 'မ' directly before the verb: 'မစားဘူး' (won't eat).
- The particle 'ဘူး' acts as the negative marker at the end: 'မသွားဘူး' (won't go).
- This structure works for both future intentions and general habits.
Negation Pattern
| Affirmative | Negative | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
|
စားတယ်
|
မစားဘူး
|
Eat/Don't eat
|
|
သွားတယ်
|
မသွားဘူး
|
Go/Don't go
|
|
လာတယ်
|
မလာဘူး
|
Come/Don't come
|
|
လုပ်တယ်
|
မလုပ်ဘူး
|
Do/Don't do
|
|
ဝယ်တယ်
|
မဝယ်ဘူး
|
Buy/Don't buy
|
|
ကြည့်တယ်
|
မကြည့်ဘူး
|
Watch/Don't watch
|
N/A
| None |
|---|
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None
|
Meanings
This structure is the standard way to negate verbs in Burmese, covering future tense, present habitual, and simple past negation.
Future Negation
Expressing that an action will not happen.
“မလာဘူး (won't come)”
“မလုပ်ဘူး (won't do)”
Habitual Negation
Expressing that one does not perform an action as a habit.
“မသောက်ဘူး (don't drink)”
“မဖတ်ဘူး (don't read)”
Past Negation
Expressing that an action did not occur in the past.
“မစားခဲ့ဘူး (didn't eat)”
“မတွေ့ဘူး (didn't see)”
Reference Table
| Form | Structure | Example |
|---|---|---|
|
Affirmative
|
Verb + တယ်
|
စားတယ်
|
|
Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
|
Question
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး + လား
|
မစားဘူးလား
|
|
Past Negative
|
မ + Verb + ခဲ့ + ဘူး
|
မစားခဲ့ဘူး
|
|
Future Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
|
Habitual Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
격식 수준 스펙트럼
ကျွန်တော် မသွားပါဘူး။ (Declining an invitation)
ကျွန်တော် မသွားဘူး။ (Declining an invitation)
မသွားဘူး။ (Declining an invitation)
မသွားဘူးကွာ။ (Declining an invitation)
Negation Logic
Prefix
- မ Negative Marker
Suffix
- ဘူး Negative Closer
수준별 예문
မသွားဘူး။
I won't go.
မစားဘူး။
I won't eat.
မလုပ်ဘူး။
I won't do it.
မဝယ်ဘူး။
I won't buy it.
ကျွန်တော် မလာဘူး။
I will not come.
သူ မပြောဘူး။
He does not say.
မကြည့်ဘူးလား။
Won't you watch?
မသိဘူး။
I don't know.
ဒီနေ့တော့ မသွားဘူး။
I won't go today.
သူတို့ မလုပ်ကြဘူး။
They don't do it.
မကြိုက်ဘူးလို့ ပြောတယ်။
He said he doesn't like it.
မယူဘူးလို့ ဆုံးဖြတ်တယ်။
I decided not to take it.
အလုပ်မလုပ်ဘူးဆိုရင် ပိုက်ဆံမရဘူး။
If you don't work, you won't get money.
သူမ မလာနိုင်ဘူးလို့ ထင်တယ်။
I think she cannot come.
မေ့သွားမှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။
I won't forget it.
ဘာမှ မလုပ်ဘူး။
I am doing nothing.
သူ့ကို မတွေ့ရတာ ကြာပြီ။
It's been a long time since I saw him.
မသွားသင့်ဘူးလို့ ထင်တယ်။
I think you shouldn't go.
ဘာမှ မပြောဘူးတဲ့။
They say he didn't say anything.
မလုပ်ချင်ဘူးဆိုရင် မလုပ်နဲ့။
If you don't want to do it, don't.
မဖြစ်နိုင်ဘူးဆိုတာ မရှိဘူး။
There is no such thing as impossible.
မလုပ်မဖြစ် လုပ်ရမယ်။
I must do it (lit: if I don't do it, it won't happen).
မသိမသာနဲ့ မလုပ်ဘူး။
I won't do it secretly.
မလုပ်ဘူးလို့ အခိုင်အမာ ပြောတယ်။
He firmly said he won't do it.
혼동하기 쉬운
Learners mix up general negation with 'never'.
Learners mix up negation with prohibition (don't do it).
Learners use 'မဟုတ်ဘူး' for verb negation.
자주 하는 실수
မစား
မစားဘူး
စားမဘူး
မစားဘူး
မစားတယ်
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးတယ်
မစားဘူး
ကျွန်တော် မစား
ကျွန်တော် မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးလား
မစားဘူးလား
မစားခဲ့ဘူး
မစားခဲ့ဘူး
မစားဖူး
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးလို့
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးပါ
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးတဲ့
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးလေ
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးဆို
မစားဘူး
문장 패턴
ကျွန်တော် ___ မလုပ်ဘူး။
သူက ___ မစားဘူး။
မနက်ဖြန် ___ မသွားဘူး။
ဘာလို့ ___ မလုပ်တာလဲ။
Real World Usage
အသား မစားဘူး။
မလာဘူး။
မလုပ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။
မသွားဘူး။
မကြိုက်ဘူး။
မယူဘူး။
Consistency
Don't forget 'ဘူး'
Politeness
Directness
Smart Tips
Add 'ပါ' after 'ဘူး'.
Add 'ခဲ့' before 'ဘူး'.
Add 'လား' at the end.
Use 'လုံးဝ' (at all) for emphasis.
발음
Intonation
The 'ဘူး' particle often has a falling tone in statements.
Statement
မစားဘူး↘
Definitive negative
Question
မစားဘူးလား↗
Seeking confirmation
암기하기
기억법
Think of a sandwich: The verb is the meat, 'မ' is the top bun, and 'ဘူး' is the bottom bun.
시각적 연상
Imagine a 'No' sign (a red circle with a line) appearing around the verb, with 'မ' on the left and 'ဘူး' on the right.
Rhyme
Put 'မ' in front, 'ဘူး' at the end, negation is now your best friend.
Story
A man named Ma wants to eat. He says 'Ma' (the prefix) and then 'Bu' (the suffix). He is so full he says 'Ma-eat-Bu'.
Word Web
챌린지
For the next 5 minutes, try to negate every sentence you think of in your head using this rule.
문화 노트
Using 'မ...ဘူး' is direct. In polite society, adding 'ပါ' (မ...ပါဘူး) softens the refusal.
The particle 'ဘူး' evolved from a verb meaning 'to be' or 'to exist'.
대화 시작하기
ဒီနေ့ အလုပ်သွားမလား။
ဒီဟင်းကို ကြိုက်လား။
မနက်ဖြန် လာနိုင်မလား။
ဒီအစီအစဉ်ကို သဘောတူလား။
일기 주제
자주 하는 실수
Test Yourself
ကျွန်တော် မ___ဘူး။ (go)
Which is correct?
Find and fix the mistake:
ကျွန်တော် မစား။
Arrange the words in the correct order:
All words placed
Click words above to build the sentence
I don't eat.
Answer starts with: မစာ...
Match each item on the left with its pair on the right:
လာတယ် -> ?
A: သွားမလား? B: ___
Score: /8
연습 문제
8 exercisesကျွန်တော် မ___ဘူး။ (go)
Which is correct?
Find and fix the mistake:
ကျွန်တော် မစား။
ဘူး / မ / သွား / ကျွန်တော်
I don't eat.
စား -> ?
လာတယ် -> ?
A: သွားမလား? B: ___
Score: /8
자주 묻는 질문 (8)
No, it stays the same.
Yes, but often add 'ခဲ့' for clarity.
It can be direct; add 'ပါ' to soften.
It sounds like a broken sentence.
No, 'never' uses 'ဖူး'.
Yes, it is standard.
Add 'လား' at the end.
Very few, mostly with auxiliary verbs.
Scaffolded Practice
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Mastery Progress
Needs Practice
Improving
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Mastered
In Other Languages
No + verb
Burmese adds a final particle.
Ne + verb + pas
Burmese uses 'မ' and 'ဘူး'.
Verb + nicht
Burmese is a frame.
Verb + nai
Burmese uses a frame.
La + verb
Burmese uses a frame.
Bu + verb
Burmese uses a frame.
