Burmese Grammar Guide
Burmese Grammar Guide
A comprehensive review of Burmese Grammar
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Table of Contents
editIntro
edit- SOV
- comparison with other major languages (English, Chinese/Japanese, SEA languages)
- importance of particles
verbs
edit- tenses
- present (-တယ်)
- past (-တယ်, -ခဲ့တယ်, -လိုက်, -လာ, -ထား)
- general future (-မယ်, -ခဲ့)
- intermediate future (-တော့မယ်)
- probable future event (-လိမ့်မည်)
- negative statement (မ-ဘူး)
- command (-ပါ, မ-နဲ့, -လိုက်, -တော့, -ဦး)
- progression (-နေ)
- completion (-ပြီ)
- pluralisation (-ကြ)
- change of state (-သွား)
- expressing modal verbs
- can (-ရ, -တတ်, -နိုင်)
- may/must (-ရ)
nouns
edit- numerical classifiers (such as ခု, ယောက်, ဦး)
- noun markers (အ-, -မှု, -ချက်, -ရေး, -စရာ, -ခြင်း, -နည်း)
- အ-[x]-အ-[y] forms
- understanding nominalisation and how it is used in Burmese
- plural markers (-များ, -တွေ)
pronouns
edit- demonstrative pronouns (ဒီ/ဒါ, ဤ, အဲဒီ/အဲဒါ, ဟို, ထို)
- personal pronouns
- formal
- informal
- pluralisation (-တို့)
- interrogatives
- what/which (ဘာ, ဘယ်ဟာ)
- when (ဘယ်တော့, ဘယ်အချိန်, ဘယ်တုန်းက)
- where (ဘယ်မှာ, ဘယ်နေရာ)
- why (ဘယ်ဖြစ်လို့, ဘာကြောင့်)
- How, Who (ဘယ်လို, ဘယ်သူ)
adjectives
edit- adjective markers (-သော, -သည့်, -မည့်, -တဲ့)
- reduplication
- adverbs
- adverb marker (-စွာ)
- adverbs forming through reduplication
postpositions
edit- of location (-မှာ, -ပေါ်, -အောက်, -ထဲ, -ပြင်)
- how to combine particles such as -မှာ, -ပေါ် and -ထဲ to mean things like 'about/on [this topic]'
- others (-ကို, -နဲ့, မ-ဘဲ[နဲ့], -အတွက်, -ပေမဲ့/-ပေမယ်)
conjunctions
edit- -ပြီး and all its variations
- -နှင့်, -လို့, -ဖို့, -အောင်
sentence-level syntax
edit- subject, object marker
- reported speech
- Emphasis Particles (-ပဲ, -လေ, -လေး, -တော့, ပေါ့)
- order of particles
- other final particles (such as -စေ, -မိ, -စို့)
- analysis of some complex sentences
- Mapping Of Particles From Formal To Colloquial