Grammar Rule in 30 Seconds
To make a verb negative in Burmese, wrap it in 'မ' before and 'ဘူး' after.
- Place 'မ' directly before the verb: မစား (don't eat).
- Place 'ဘူး' at the end of the verb phrase: မစားဘူး (don't eat).
- The structure is always: Subject + မ + Verb + ဘူး.
Negation Formation Table
| Affirmative | Negative | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
|
စားတယ်
|
မစားဘူး
|
Eat / Don't eat
|
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သွားတယ်
|
မသွားဘူး
|
Go / Don't go
|
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လာတယ်
|
မလာဘူး
|
Come / Don't come
|
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လုပ်တယ်
|
မလုပ်ဘူး
|
Do / Don't do
|
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သိတယ်
|
မသိဘူး
|
Know / Don't know
|
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ကြိုက်တယ်
|
မကြိုက်ဘူး
|
Like / Don't like
|
Meanings
The particle pair 'မ...ဘူး' is the standard way to negate verbs in Burmese, equivalent to 'do not' or 'does not' in English.
General Negation
Used to negate actions or states in the present or past.
“မလုပ်ဘူး။ (I don't do it.)”
“မလာဘူး။ (He didn't come.)”
Reference Table
| Form | Structure | Example |
|---|---|---|
|
Affirmative
|
Verb + တယ်
|
စားတယ်
|
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Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
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Question
|
Verb + လား
|
စားလား
|
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Negative Question
|
မ + Verb + ဘူးလား
|
မစားဘူးလား
|
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Past Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
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Future Negative
|
မ + Verb + ဘူး
|
မစားဘူး
|
격식 수준 스펙트럼
ကျွန်တော် အသား မစားဘူး။ (Ordering food)
ကျွန်တော် အသား မစားဘူး။ (Ordering food)
အသား မစားဘူး။ (Ordering food)
အသား မစားဘူးကွာ။ (Ordering food)
Negation Sandwich
Prefix
- မ Not
Suffix
- ဘူး Not
수준별 예문
မစားဘူး။
I don't eat.
မသွားဘူး။
I am not going.
မသိဘူး။
I don't know.
မလုပ်ဘူး။
I don't do it.
သူ မလာဘူး။
He is not coming.
ကျွန်တော် မကြိုက်ဘူး။
I don't like it.
မကြည့်ဘူး။
I didn't watch it.
မဝယ်ဘူး။
I am not buying it.
ဒီနေ့ အလုပ် မလုပ်ဘူး။
I am not working today.
သူတို့ မပြောဘူး။
They didn't say it.
မနက်ဖြန် မသွားဘူး။
I am not going tomorrow.
ဘာမှ မစားဘူး။
I didn't eat anything.
သူက အမှန်အတိုင်း မပြောဘူး။
He does not tell the truth.
ငါတို့ အဲဒီနေရာကို မသွားဘူး။
We don't go to that place.
သူမက ဘာမှ မသိဘူး။
She doesn't know anything.
အဲဒီကားကို မစီးဘူး။
I don't ride that car.
သူ့ရဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်ကို မထောက်ခံဘူး။
I do not support his decision.
အဲဒီကိစ္စကို မဆွေးနွေးဘူး။
We will not discuss that matter.
ဘာကြောင့် မလုပ်တာလဲ မသိဘူး။
I don't know why he didn't do it.
သူက ဘယ်တော့မှ မညာဘူး။
He never lies.
အဆိုပါ အစီအစဉ်ကို မအတည်ပြုဘူး။
The plan is not approved.
သူ့ရဲ့ သဘောထားကို မသိဘူး။
His stance is not known.
ဤအချက်ကို မငြင်းဆိုဘူး။
This point is not denied.
အဲဒီလို မဖြစ်သင့်ဘူး။
It should not happen like that.
혼동하기 쉬운
Learners use it for verbs instead of nouns.
Learners confuse 'not yet' with 'not'.
Learners confuse 'never' with 'not'.
자주 하는 실수
မစား
မစားဘူး
စားဘူး
မစားဘူး
မစားတယ်ဘူး
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးတယ်
မစားဘူး
မလုပ်ဘူးတယ်
မလုပ်ဘူး
မသွား
မသွားဘူး
မသိဘူးတယ်
မသိဘူး
မမဟုတ်ဘူး
မဟုတ်ဘူး
မစားဘူးခဲ့
မစားဘူး
မစားဘူးလား
မစားဘူးလား
မလုပ်ဘူး ဖြစ်တယ်
မလုပ်ဘူး
မလုပ်ဘူး ဆိုတာ
မလုပ်ဘူး
မလုပ်ဘူး လို့
မလုပ်ဘူး
문장 패턴
ကျွန်တော် ___ မလုပ်ဘူး။
သူ ___ မသွားဘူး။
ကျွန်တော် ___ မကြိုက်ဘူး။
မနက်ဖြန် ___ မလုပ်ဘူး။
Real World Usage
ငရုတ်သီး မထည့်ဘူး။
မလာတော့ဘူး။
အဲဒီအလုပ်ကို မလုပ်ဘူး။
မသွားဘူး။
မကြိုက်ဘူး။
မယူဘူး။
Consistency
Don't drop 'ဘူး'
Use with 'သေး'
Politeness
Smart Tips
Always check for the 'ဘူး' at the end.
If it's an action, use 'မ...ဘူး'. If it's a thing, use 'မဟုတ်ဘူး'.
Add 'ပါ' to the end.
Insert 'သေး' before 'ဘူး'.
발음
Tone
The 'မ' is usually low tone, 'ဘူး' is high tone.
Statement
မစားဘူး ↘
Falling intonation for a firm statement.
암기하기
기억법
Think of a sandwich: 'မ' is the top bun, 'ဘူး' is the bottom bun, and the verb is the tasty meat in the middle.
시각적 연상
Imagine a person shaking their head 'no' while holding a sandwich. The 'မ' is on their left hand, and 'ဘူး' is on their right hand.
Rhyme
Put 'မ' at the start, 'ဘူး' at the end, negation is your best friend.
Story
A man goes to a restaurant. He wants to say he doesn't eat spicy food. He puts 'မ' on the chili, and 'ဘူး' on the chili. Now the chili is trapped and he doesn't have to eat it!
Word Web
챌린지
Spend 5 minutes today saying 'မ...ဘူး' for every action you don't want to do (e.g., 'မအိပ်ဘူး' - I won't sleep).
문화 노트
Burmese people often use this to be polite by softening the tone.
The negation 'မ' is a common Tibeto-Burman negative prefix.
대화 시작하기
ဒီနေ့ အလုပ်လုပ်လား။
အသားစားလား။
ဒီရုပ်ရှင် ကြည့်ဖူးလား။
မနက်ဖြန် သွားမှာလား။
일기 주제
자주 하는 실수
Test Yourself
ကျွန်တော် အသား ___ ။
Which is correct?
Find and fix the mistake:
သူ မစား။
Arrange the words in the correct order:
All words placed
Click words above to build the sentence
I don't go.
Answer starts with: မသွ...
A: စားမလား? B: ___
Use 'မ...ဘူး' with 'လုပ်'.
Sort 'မစားဘူး'.
Score: /8
연습 문제
8 exercisesကျွန်တော် အသား ___ ။
Which is correct?
Find and fix the mistake:
သူ မစား။
ဘူး / မ / စား
I don't go.
A: စားမလား? B: ___
Use 'မ...ဘူး' with 'လုပ်'.
Sort 'မစားဘူး'.
Score: /8
자주 묻는 질문 (8)
Yes, it works for all tenses.
It is neutral and used everywhere.
It sounds incomplete or like a different grammatical structure.
No, it is the same for all subjects.
No, use 'မဟုတ်ဘူး' for nouns.
Yes, it is very common in lyrics.
Add 'ပါ' at the end.
Very few, it is highly consistent.
Scaffolded Practice
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Mastery Progress
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In Other Languages
no + verb
Burmese uses two parts, Spanish uses one.
ne + verb + pas
French is more formal; Burmese is universal.
nicht
Placement is completely different.
nai
Burmese uses a separate particle.
la
Burmese is a sandwich structure.
bu
Burmese adds a second particle at the end.
