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Stating the Minute (မိနစ်)

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Grammar Rule in 30 Seconds

In Burmese, state the number first, then add the word 'မိနစ်' (mi-nit) to express minutes.

  • Place the number before the word မိနစ် (mi-nit). Example: ၅ မိနစ် (5 minutes).
  • When telling time, state the hour (နာရီ) first, then the minutes. Example: ၉ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် (9:10).
  • In casual speech, 'mi-nit' is often dropped if the context is clear.
Number + မိနစ် (mi-nit) 🕒

Minute Formation with Numbers

Number (Digit) Burmese Script Phonetic English
1
၁ မိနစ်
ta-mi-nit
1 minute
5
၅ မိနစ်
nga-mi-nit
5 minutes
10
၁၀ မိနစ်
t'se-mi-nit
10 minutes
15
၁၅ မိနစ်
t'se-nga-mi-nit
15 minutes
30
၃၀ မိနစ်
thone-ze-mi-nit
30 minutes
45
၄၅ မိနစ်
lay-ze-nga-mi-nit
45 minutes

Spoken vs. Written

Context Full Form Short Form
Casual Time
၁၀ နာရီ ၅ မိနစ်
၁၀ နာရီ ၅
Half Hour
၂ နာရီ ၃၀ မိနစ်
၂ နာရီခွဲ

Meanings

The standard way to quantify or state specific minutes within an hour or as a duration.

1

Clock Time

Specifying the exact minute past the hour.

“နှစ်နာရီ ဆယ့်ငါးမိနစ် (2:15)”

2

Duration

Expressing how long an action takes in minutes.

“ငါးမိနစ် စောင့်ပါ (Wait five minutes)”

Reference Table

Reference table for Stating the Minute (မိနစ်)
Form Structure Example
Affirmative
Number + မိနစ်
၂၀ မိနစ် (20 mins)
Question
ဘယ်နှစ် + မိနစ် + လဲ
ဘယ်နှစ်မိနစ်လဲ (How many mins?)
Clock Time
Hour + နာရီ + Min + မိနစ်
၄ နာရီ ၅ မိနစ် (4:05)
Duration
Number + မိနစ် + ကြာတယ်
၁၀ မိနစ် ကြာတယ် (Takes 10 mins)
Approximate
မိနစ် + ၂၀ + လောက်
မိနစ် ၂၀ လောက် (About 20 mins)

격식 수준 스펙트럼

격식체
၅ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

၅ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ (Telling time)

중립
၅ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ။

၅ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ။ (Telling time)

비격식체
၅ နာရီ ၁၀။

၅ နာရီ ၁၀။ (Telling time)

속어
၅ နာရီ ၁၀ လေ။

၅ နာရီ ၁၀ လေ။ (Telling time)

Time Components

Time (အချိန်)

Hour

  • နာရီ na-yi

Minute

  • မိနစ် mi-nit

Second

  • စက္ကန့် sek-kant

Exact vs. Half

Standard
၃၀ မိနစ် 30 minutes
Colloquial
ခွဲ half past

수준별 예문

1

၅ မိနစ်

5 minutes

2

၁၀ မိနစ်

10 minutes

1

၁ နာရီ ၂၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ။

It is 1:20.

2

ဘယ်နှစ်မိနစ် လိုသေးလဲ။

How many minutes are left?

1

ဒီအလုပ်က မိနစ် ၃၀ ပဲ ကြာမယ်။

This task will only take 30 minutes.

2

ရထားက နောက်ထပ် ၁၅ မိနစ်မှာ ထွက်ပါမယ်။

The train will depart in another 15 minutes.

1

အစည်းအဝေးကို မိနစ် ၄၀ အထိ တိုးမြှင့်လိုက်သည်။

The meeting has been extended to 40 minutes.

2

မိနစ်ပိုင်းအတွင်း အကြောင်းပြန်ပေးပါမည်။

I will reply within a few minutes.

1

အချိန်နာရီ မိနစ်မလပ် ကြိုးစားအားထုတ်ရမည်။

One must strive without losing a single hour or minute.

2

စက္ကန့်နှင့် မိနစ်တို့၏ တန်ဖိုးကို နားလည်ပါ။

Understand the value of seconds and minutes.

1

မိနစ်စက်ဝန်း တရွေ့ရွေ့ လည်ပတ်နေသကဲ့သို့ ဘဝသည်လည်း ပြောင်းလဲနေ၏။

Just as the cycle of minutes turns slowly, life too is changing.

혼동하기 쉬운

Stating the Minute (မိနစ်) 대 မိနစ် vs မိနစ်ပိုင်း

Learners use 'mi-nit-pine' when they just mean a count of minutes.

자주 하는 실수

✗

မိနစ် ၅

✓

၅ မိနစ်

The unit must follow the number.
✗

၅ မိနစ် နာရီ

✓

၅ မိနစ်

Don't add 'na-yi' (hour) when you only mean minutes.
✗

ဘယ်နှစ်နာရီ မိနစ်လဲ

✓

ဘယ်နှစ်မိနစ်လဲ

To ask 'how many minutes', use 'be-hnat-mi-nit'.
✗

၃၀ မိနစ်ခွဲ

✓

၃၀ မိနစ် OR ခွဲ

Don't use both '30 minutes' and 'half' together; it's redundant.

문장 패턴

___ နာရီ ___ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ။

Real World Usage

Texting very common

5 min nay yin lar mal (Coming in 5 mins)

Bus Station constant

နောက် ၅ မိနစ် ကားထွက်မယ် (Bus leaves in 5 mins)

Cooking common

၁၀ မိနစ် ပြုတ်ပါ (Boil for 10 mins)

🎯

Drop it!

In fast spoken Burmese, you can drop 'mi-nit' if you already said 'na-yi'. Example: '9 na-yi 5' instead of '9 na-yi 5 mi-nit'.
⚠️

Number Script

Learn the Burmese digits (၁, ၂, ၃) as they are used on many traditional clocks and bus signs.
💬

The 30-Minute Rule

Always use 'khwè' for 30 minutes past the hour. Saying '30 mi-nit' sounds like a robot or a textbook.

Smart Tips

Just say the numbers. '10:15' can be '10, 15'.

၁၀ နာရီ ၁၅ မိနစ် → ၁၀၊ ၁၅

Add 'lauk' after 'mi-nit'.

၅ မိနစ် → ၅ မိနစ်လောက်

발음

mi-nit (short 'i' sounds)

Softening

The 'm' in mi-nit is soft and quick.

Falling tone on 'nit'

မိနစ် (nit is heavy/low)

Standard pronunciation

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기억법

Think of 'Mi-nit' as 'Minute' with a Burmese twist—it sounds almost the same!

시각적 연상

Imagine a clock where the minute hand is a 'Me' (Mi) and it hits a 'Net' (Nit) every time it moves.

Rhyme

Count to ten, then say it again: t'se mi-nit is ten!

Story

A traveler in Mandalay was 5 minutes late for the boat. He kept shouting 'Nga mi-nit! Nga mi-nit!' (5 minutes!) until the captain stopped.

Word Web

နာရီစက္ကန့်အချိန်ခွဲဘယ်နှစ်နာရီလဲ

챌린지

Look at your watch right now and say the current minutes in Burmese out loud three times.

문화 노트

Punctuality is valued in formal settings, but 'Rubber Time' (being a few minutes late) is common in social gatherings.

Monks follow strict times for meals; minutes are counted precisely before noon.

Loanword from English 'minute'.

대화 시작하기

“

အခု ဘယ်နှစ်မိနစ် ရှိပြီလဲ။

“

ဒီကနေ မြို့ထဲကို မိနစ်ဘယ်လောက် ကြာမလဲ။

일기 주제

Write your morning routine with specific minutes.

자주 하는 실수

Incorrect

정답

Incorrect

정답

Incorrect

정답

Incorrect

정답

Test Yourself

How do you say '10 minutes'? 객관식

Select the correct Burmese phrase:

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၁၀ မိနစ်
The number (၁၀) must come before the word for minute (မိနစ်).
Complete the time: 2:15

၂ နာရီ ___ မိနစ်

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၁၅
15 in Burmese is ၁၅ (t'se-nga).
Translate to Burmese: 'Wait 5 minutes.' 번역

Wait 5 minutes.

Answer starts with: ၅ မ...

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၅ မိနစ် စောင့်ပါ။
5 minutes is '5 mi-nit'. 'Wait' is 'saung-ba'.
Fix the mistake: 'မိနစ် ၂၀ ရှိပြီ' (It is 20 minutes past) Error Correction

Find and fix the mistake:

မိနစ် ၂၀ ရှိပြီ

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၂၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ
The number must precede the unit.

Score: /4

연습 문제

4 exercises
How do you say '10 minutes'? 객관식

Select the correct Burmese phrase:

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၁၀ မိနစ်
The number (၁၀) must come before the word for minute (မိနစ်).
Complete the time: 2:15

၂ နာရီ ___ မိနစ်

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၁၅
15 in Burmese is ၁၅ (t'se-nga).
Translate to Burmese: 'Wait 5 minutes.' 번역

Wait 5 minutes.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၅ မိနစ် စောင့်ပါ။
5 minutes is '5 mi-nit'. 'Wait' is 'saung-ba'.
Fix the mistake: 'မိနစ် ၂၀ ရှိပြီ' (It is 20 minutes past) Error Correction

Find and fix the mistake:

မိနစ် ၂၀ ရှိပြီ

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ၂၀ မိနစ် ရှိပြီ
The number must precede the unit.

Score: /4

자주 묻는 질문 (6)

It is used for both! You can say 'I waited for 5 minutes' or 'It is 10:05' using the same word.

No, 'mi-nit' itself acts as the unit/classifier.

In modern cities like Yangon, people understand English numbers, but using Burmese numbers is better for mastery.

The word for seconds is 'sek-kant' (စက္ကန့်). It follows the same number-first rule.

No, 'mi-nit' is used in all registers, from news to street talk.

It's just like saying 'half past' in English. It's shorter and more natural.

Scaffolded Practice

1

1

2

2

3

3

4

4

Mastery Progress

Needs Practice

Improving

Strong

Mastered

In Other Languages

Japanese high

分 (fun/pun)

Japanese counters change pronunciation based on the number; Burmese 'mi-nit' is stable.

Spanish low

minutos

Word order: Spanish is 'Hour and Minutes', Burmese is 'Hour [na-yi] Minutes [mi-nit]'.

German moderate

Minuten

Burmese usually just states the hour then the minute without 'after/before' in basic A2 speech.

Arabic low

دقيقة (daqīqa)

Burmese uses one word 'mi-nit' regardless of the number.

Learning Path

Prerequisites

Previous
Stating the Hour (နာရီ)
Next
Using 'O'clock' (နာရီ)

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