意思
Referring to a holiday or school closure.
文化背景
School holidays are often times for 'Shinbyu' ceremonies, where young boys temporarily become monks. This is the most important cultural event during the long summer school closure. In traditional monastic schools, 'kyaung pate' follows the lunar calendar (Sabbath days) rather than the Western weekend. In cities like Yangon, 'kyaung pate' is a relief for commuters because it significantly reduces traffic congestion caused by school buses (ferries). The longest 'kyaung pate' is for Thingyan (Water Festival) in April, which marks the Burmese New Year.
Use for Weekends
Always use this phrase to explain why you don't have classes on Saturday or Sunday.
Not for 'Dismissal'
Remember, if you are just leaving school for the afternoon, use 'kyaung sin tal.'
意思
Referring to a holiday or school closure.
Use for Weekends
Always use this phrase to explain why you don't have classes on Saturday or Sunday.
Not for 'Dismissal'
Remember, if you are just leaving school for the afternoon, use 'kyaung sin tal.'
Add 'ပြီ' (Pyi)
Say 'ကျောင်းပိတ်ပြီ!' (Kyaung pate pyi!) to express excitement that the holiday has finally started.
Traffic Talk
If you're stuck in traffic and it's moving fast, say 'ကျောင်းပိတ်လို့ထင်တယ်' (I think it's because school is closed). You'll sound like a local!
自我测试
Fill in the blank with the correct word for 'closed'.
မနက်ဖြန် တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ဆိုတော့ ကျောင်း_______တယ်။
Since it's Sunday (တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့), the school is closed (ပိတ်).
Which sentence means 'Is school closed today?'
Choose the correct question:
'လား' is the question marker, and 'ပိတ်' means closed.
Match the situation to the correct phrase.
It is 4:00 PM and students are going home for the day.
Daily dismissal is 'ကျောင်းဆင်းတယ်'. 'ကျောင်းပိတ်တယ်' is for holidays.
Complete the dialogue.
A: မနက်ဖြန် ကျောင်းသွားမှာလား။ B: မသွားဘူး၊ မနက်ဖြန် ___________။
If the person is not going (မသွားဘူး), it's because the school is closed.
🎉 得分： /4
视觉学习工具
Types of School Closures
Weekly
- • Saturday
- • Sunday
Seasonal
- • Summer Break
- • Thingyan
National
- • Independence Day
- • National Day
Pate vs. Sin
练习题库
4 练习မနက်ဖြန် တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ဆိုတော့ ကျောင်း_______တယ်။
Since it's Sunday (တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့), the school is closed (ပိတ်).
Choose the correct question:
'လား' is the question marker, and 'ပိတ်' means closed.
It is 4:00 PM and students are going home for the day.
Daily dismissal is 'ကျောင်းဆင်းတယ်'. 'ကျောင်းပိတ်တယ်' is for holidays.
A: မနက်ဖြန် ကျောင်းသွားမှာလား။ B: မသွားဘူး၊ မနက်ဖြန် ___________။
If the person is not going (မသွားဘူး), it's because the school is closed.
🎉 得分： /4
常见问题
10 个问题No, it usually means a temporary closure for a holiday. For permanent closure, use 'ကျောင်းပိတ်သိမ်းတယ်' (kyaung pate theim tal).
Yes, 'ကျောင်း' (kyaung) is a general term for all educational institutions in this context.
You say 'ကျောင်း သုံးရက် ပိတ်တယ်' (Kyaung thone-yet pate tal).
It is neutral and can be used in almost any situation.
The opposite is 'ကျောင်းဖွင့်တယ်' (kyaung hpwint tal), meaning school is open or school starts.
No, for a shop you would just say 'ဆိုင်ပိတ်တယ်' (Sain pate tal).
You ask 'ဘယ်တော့ ကျောင်းပိတ်မလဲ။' (Bae-daw kyaung pate ma lae?)
Yes, if the school is closed, neither students nor teachers go.
School buses (ferries) are a major cause of traffic in Myanmar cities. When school is closed, traffic improves significantly.
Yes, but that's a noun (school holiday). 'ကျောင်းပိတ်တယ်' is the verb form (school is closed).
相关表达
ကျောင်းဖွင့်တယ်
contrastSchool is open / School starts
ကျောင်းဆင်းတယ်
similarSchool is dismissed
ကျောင်းတက်တယ်
similarTo attend school
အားလပ်ရက်
builds onHoliday / Free day
နွေရာသီပိတ်ရက်
specialized formSummer break
