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Common V-V Combinations (သွားကြည့်သည် / လုပ်ပေးသည်)

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Grammar Rule in 30 Seconds

Combine two verbs to show direction, benefit, or attempts; the second verb modifies the first one's meaning.

  • Place the main action first, then the modifying verb (e.g., 'go' + 'see').
  • Use 'pay' (ပေး) as the second verb to mean 'doing for someone'.
  • Use 'kyi' (ကြည့်) as the second verb to mean 'trying' an action.
Verb 1 (Action) + Verb 2 (Nuance) + Ending 🏁

Common V2 Modifiers

V2 Verb Literal Meaning Auxiliary Meaning Example
ပေး (pay)
to give
doing for someone
လုပ်ပေး (do for)
ကြည့် (kyi)
to look
to try doing
စားကြည့် (try eating)
သွား (thwar)
to go
away from speaker
ယူသွား (take away)
လာ (lar)
to come
towards speaker
ယူလာ (bring)
ပြ (pya)
to show
explaining/showing
ပြောပြ (explain)

Meanings

In Burmese, two verbs are often placed side-by-side where the second verb functions as an auxiliary to provide additional context such as direction, intention, or benefit.

1

Benefactive (Doing for others)

Using 'pay' (ပေး) to indicate the action is performed for someone else's benefit.

“စာရေးပေးပါ (Sar-yay-pay-par) - Please write it for me.”

“ဝယ်ပေးမယ် (Wal-pay-mal) - I will buy it for you.”

2

Attemptive (Trying out)

Using 'kyi' (ကြည့်) to indicate trying an action to see the result.

“စားကြည့်ပါ (Sar-kyi-par) - Please try eating it.”

“ဝတ်ကြည့်မယ် (Wut-kyi-mal) - I will try wearing it.”

3

Directional/Sequential

Combining movement verbs like 'go' (သွား) or 'come' (လာ) with actions.

“ယူလာတယ် (Yu-lar-tal) - Brought it (Take + Come).”

“ဝယ်သွားတယ် (Wal-thwar-tal) - Bought and went (Buy + Go).”

Reference Table

Reference table for Common V-V Combinations (သွားကြည့်သည် / လုပ်ပေးသည်)
Form Structure Example
Affirmative
V1 + V2 + တယ်
ဝယ်ပေးတယ် (Bought for someone)
Negative
မ + V1 + V2 + ဘူး
မဝယ်ပေးဘူး (Didn't buy for someone)
Question
V1 + V2 + မလား
ဝယ်ပေးမလား (Will you buy for me?)
Polite Request
V1 + V2 + ပါ
ဝယ်ပေးပါ (Please buy for me)
Past Attempt
V1 + ကြည့် + ခဲ့တယ်
လုပ်ကြည့်ခဲ့တယ် (Tried doing it)
Continuous
V1 + ပေး + နေတယ်
လုပ်ပေးနေတယ် (Is doing it for you)

正式程度

正式
ကူညီစောင်မပေးပါရန်။

ကူညီစောင်မပေးပါရန်။ (Asking for assistance)

中性
ကူညီပေးပါ။

ကူညီပေးပါ။ (Asking for assistance)

非正式
ကူညီပေးဦး။

ကူညီပေးဦး။ (Asking for assistance)

俚语
ဝိုင်းလုပ်ပေးပါဦး။

ဝိုင်းလုပ်ပေးပါဦး။ (Asking for assistance)

The 'Flavor' of V2

Main Verb (Action)

Benefactive

  • လုပ်ပေး Do for you

Attempt

  • လုပ်ကြည့် Try doing

Direction

  • လုပ်သွား Do and go

Direction of Action

Towards You
ယူလာ Bring (Take-Come)
Away From You
ယူသွား Take away (Take-Go)

How to build a V-V

1

Is it a favor?

YES
Use V1 + ပေး
NO
Check for attempt
2

Is it an attempt?

YES
Use V1 + ကြည့်
NO
Use V1 + V2 sequence

Common V2 Auxiliaries

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Helpfulness

  • • ပေး (pay)
  • • ကူညီ (ku-nyi)
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Exploration

  • • ကြည့် (kyi)
  • • စမ်း (sann)
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按水平分级的例句

1

သွားကြည့်မယ်။

I will go and see.

2

လာစားပါ။

Come and eat.

1

ကူညီပေးပါဦး။

Please help me.

2

ဒါ သောက်ကြည့်ပါ။

Try drinking this.

1

စာအုပ် ယူသွားလိုက်ပါ။

Go ahead and take the book with you.

2

သူ့ကို ပြောပြပေးမယ်။

I will explain it to him for you.

1

အလုပ်တွေ အကုန် လုပ်ထားပေးတယ်။

I have done all the work (and kept it ready) for you.

2

ပြန်စဉ်းစားကြည့်ပါဦး။

Please try to think it over again.

1

ဒီပြဿနာကို ဖြေရှင်းကြည့်ပေးဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေပါတယ်။

I am attempting to try and solve this problem for (us/you).

2

သူ ရောက်လာခဲ့ရင် ပြောလိုက်ပေးပါ။

If he happens to arrive, please tell him (on my behalf).

1

ထိုအကြောင်းအရာကို ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်ကြည့်ရှုပေးပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံအပ်ပါသည်။

I humbly request you to kindly review and look into that matter again.

2

စီမံကိန်းကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးခဲ့သည်။

The project was implemented and carried out (for the benefit of others).

容易混淆

Common V-V Combinations (သွားကြည့်သည် / လုပ်ပေးသည်) 对比 V + ဖို့ (Purpose)

Learners use 'to' (ဖို့) when they should just stack the verbs.

Common V-V Combinations (သွားကြည့်သည် / လုပ်ပေးသည်) 对比 V + နိုင် (Can) vs V + ပေး (For)

Mixing up 'I can do' with 'I do for you'.

Common V-V Combinations (သွားကြည့်သည် / လုပ်ပေးသည်) 对比 V + သွား vs V + လာ

Using the wrong direction relative to the speaker.

常见错误

✗

ကြည့်စားတယ်

✓

စားကြည့်တယ်

In English we say 'Try to eat', but Burmese puts the main action first.
✗

ပေးလုပ်တယ်

✓

လုပ်ပေးတယ်

The 'favor' verb (ပေး) must come second.
✗

စားမကြည့်ဘူး

✓

မစားကြည့်ဘူး

Negation 'ma' must go before the entire verb stack.
✗

ယူသွားပါ (when coming to speaker)

✓

ယူလာပါ

Confusing 'go' and 'come' directionals.
✗

ပြောပြပေးပါ (redundant use)

✓

ပြောပြပါ

Sometimes learners stack too many auxiliaries when one is enough.
✗

လုပ်ဖို့ကြည့်မယ်

✓

လုပ်ကြည့်မယ်

Don't use the 'to' particle (ဖို့) between stacked verbs.
✗

မလုပ်ပေးနိုင်ဘူး

✓

လုပ်မပေးနိုင်ဘူး

With three verbs, negation placement becomes tricky; usually it negates the ability, not the favor.
✗

ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက် (wrong sequence)

✓

ဆောင်ရွက်ဖော်

In formal registers, the sequence of conceptual verbs is very rigid.

句型

ကျွန်တော် ___ ပေးမယ်။

ဒါကို ___ ကြည့်ပါ။

သူ့ကို ___ ပေးလိုက်ပါ။

Real World Usage

Ordering Food constant

အစပ် လျှော့ပေးပါ (Reduce the spice for me).

Shopping very common

ဒါ ဝတ်ကြည့်လို့ ရမလား (Can I try wearing this?).

Asking for Directions common

လမ်း ပြောပြပေးပါ (Please explain the road to me).

Texting Friends very common

အခု လာခဲ့မယ် (I'm coming now).

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The 'Pay' Rule

Whenever you ask someone to do something for you, always add 'pay' (ပေး). It turns a command into a polite request.
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Direction Matters

Be careful with 'thwar' (go) and 'lar' (come). If you say 'take-go' (yu-thwar) to someone bringing you coffee, they will walk away with it!
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Try everything

Use 'kyi' (ကြည့်) for anything new: eating, wearing, visiting, or even listening to a song.

Smart Tips

Always use 'kyi' (try) when asking to see or touch items. It sounds less demanding.

ဒါ ကြည့်မယ် (I will look at this). → ဒါ ကြည့်ကြည့်မယ် (I will try looking at this).

Don't just say 'I will do it'. Add 'pay' to show it's for them.

ကျွန်တော် လုပ်မယ် (I will do it). → ကျွန်တော် လုပ်ပေးမယ် (I will do it for you).

Think of the sequence of events. If you 'take' then 'go', it's 'yu-thwar'.

ယူတယ် ပြီးတော့ သွားတယ် (Take and then go). → ယူသွားတယ် (Take-go).

发音

In 'lote-pay', 'pay' is shorter than when used alone.

V2 Weakening

The second verb often loses its heavy tone and is pronounced more quickly/lightly.

Rising-Falling

စားကြည့် (Sar-kyi) ↗↘

Suggestive/Friendly tone

记住它

记忆技巧

The 'Action-Nuance' Train: The first car is what you DO, the second car is HOW it feels.

视觉联想

Imagine a gift box (ပေး) attached to a hammer (လုပ်). You aren't just hammering; you're hammering as a gift for someone else.

Rhyme

Action first, nuance last; Burmese verbs are built to last!

Story

A chef wants to help a friend. He 'cooks' (ချက်) then 'gives' (ပေး). He wants the friend to 'eat' (စား) then 'look' (ကြည့်). Together they 'cook-give' and 'eat-look'.

Word Web

လုပ်ပေးစားကြည့်ယူလာပြောပြဝယ်သွားသင်ပေး

挑战

Look at 5 things in your room and say 'I will give/do [Action] for my friend' using V + ပေးမယ်.

文化笔记

Using 'pay' (ပေး) is not just grammar; it's a social requirement. Doing an action for someone without adding 'pay' can sound blunt or rude, as if you are just performing a robotic task rather than a favor.

Speakers in Mandalay often use more elaborate V-V stacks to show extreme politeness, sometimes adding 3 or 4 verbs in a row.

Serial verb constructions are a core feature of the Tibeto-Burman language family, dating back thousands of years.

对话开场白

“

ဒီအစားအစာကို စားကြည့်ဖူးလား။

“

ကျွန်တော့်ကို မြန်မာစာ သင်ပေးနိုင်မလား။

“

မနက်ဖြန် ဘာဝယ်လာပေးရမလဲ။

日记主题

Write about a time you helped a friend. Use at least five 'V + ပေး' combinations.
Describe three new things you want to try this year.
Explain the process of bringing a gift to a Burmese house.

常见错误

Incorrect

正确

Incorrect

正确

Incorrect

正确

Incorrect

正确

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Test Yourself

How do you say 'Please help me'? 多项选择

___ ပေးပါ။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ကူညီ
'Ku-nyi' means help. 'Ku-nyi pay par' is 'Please help me'.
Fill in the blank to say 'I will try eating it'.

ကျွန်တော် စား___မယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ကြည့်
'Kyi' is used for 'trying' an action.
Correct the sentence: 'I will bring it' (towards speaker). Error Correction

Find and fix the mistake:

ယူသွားမယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ယူလာမယ်
'Yu-lar' means bring (take-come). 'Yu-thwar' means take away.
Reorder to say 'Please explain it to me'. Sentence Reorder

Arrange the words in the correct order:

All words placed

Click words above to build the sentence

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: 2-3-4-1
The order is Speak (Pyaw) + Show (Pya) + Give (Pay) + Polite particle (Par).

Score: /4

练习题

4 exercises
How do you say 'Please help me'? 多项选择

___ ပေးပါ။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ကူညီ
'Ku-nyi' means help. 'Ku-nyi pay par' is 'Please help me'.
Fill in the blank to say 'I will try eating it'.

ကျွန်တော် စား___မယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ကြည့်
'Kyi' is used for 'trying' an action.
Correct the sentence: 'I will bring it' (towards speaker). Error Correction

Find and fix the mistake:

ယူသွားမယ်။

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ယူလာမယ်
'Yu-lar' means bring (take-come). 'Yu-thwar' means take away.
Reorder to say 'Please explain it to me'. Sentence Reorder

(၁) ပါ (၂) ပြော (၃) ပြ (၄) ပေး

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: 2-3-4-1
The order is Speak (Pyaw) + Show (Pya) + Give (Pay) + Polite particle (Par).

Score: /4

常见问题 (7)

Yes! You can say `ပြောပြပေးပါ` (Speak-Show-Give) which means 'Please explain it to me'. Burmese often stacks 3 or 4 verbs.

In a V-V combination, yes. If used alone, it means 'to give' an object.

Put `မ` at the very start. `မလုပ်ပေးဘူး` (I won't do it for you).

Yes, it sounds softer than a direct command. `စားပါ` (Eat!) vs `စားကြည့်ပါ` (Please try eating).

`ယူလာ` means 'bring it here'. `လာယူ` means 'come and get it'. The order of actions matters!

Yes, `လုပ်ပေးနိုင်တယ်` means 'I can do it for you'. The 'can' usually goes at the very end of the stack.

`သွားကြည့်` implies you have to go somewhere else to see it. `ကြည့်` just means look at what is here.

Scaffolded Practice

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Mastery Progress

Needs Practice

Improving

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Mastered

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In Other Languages

Japanese high

~てみる (~te miru)

Burmese doesn't need a connecting particle like 'te'; it just stacks the verbs directly.

Spanish moderate

Ir a + Verb

Spanish uses a preposition 'a', while Burmese is direct.

German low

Separable Verbs

Burmese V2s are independent verbs, not just prefixes.

Arabic partial

Serial Verbs (in dialects)

Burmese verbs don't both conjugate for person; only the end of the stack does.

French moderate

Venir de / Aller + Verb

Burmese V2 often indicates the result or benefit, which French uses separate phrases for.

Learning Path

Prerequisites

Previous
Verb + Verb Combinations (V-V)
Next
Auxiliary Verbs (အကူကြိယာ)

Related Grammar Rules

B2

Complex Verb + Verb Combinations (V-V-V)
A2

Introduction to Compound Verbs (ကြိယာတွဲများ)
A2

Verb + Verb Combinations (V-V)
B2

Serial Verb Constructions (လုပ်စားသည်)
B2

Directional Compound Verbs (သွားလိုက်သည် / လာလိုက်သည်)
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