ပြီ
Already and Now
To say an action is finished, put ပြီး (finish) before it: စားပြီးပြီ။ (I've already eaten.)
How It Works
ပြီ is a sentence ending, like တယ်. Choose ပြီ when the sentence reports a change. Something has happened, and the situation is now different.
| With တယ် | With ပြီ |
|---|---|
| မိုးရွာတယ်။ It rains. | မိုးရွာပြီ။ It's started raining. |
| ရောက်တယ်။ I arrive. | ရောက်ပြီ။ I'm here now. |
| စားတယ်။ I eat. | စားပြီးပြီ။ I've already eaten. |
To say an action is done, put ပြီး (finish) before ပြီ. ပြီး alone at the end is not a full sentence, so always close with ပြီ.
Add လား to ask whether something has happened yet: ရောက်ပြီလား။ (Are you there yet?) A friendly greeting is ထမင်းစားပြီးပြီလား။ (Have you eaten yet?)
A negative sentence ends in ဘူး, not ပြီ. For "not yet", use မ…သေးဘူး: မစားရသေးဘူး။ (I haven't eaten yet.)
A common phrase is ရပါပြီ။ (It's ready. / That's enough, thanks.) You hear it when an order is ready, or when someone offers you more food. It puts ပါ before ပြီ, the same way ပါတယ် puts ပါ before တယ်.
Examples (5)
- ဘတ်စ်ကား လာပြီ။
The bus is here.
ပြီ shows the bus has just come.
- ကျွန်မ ထမင်းစားပြီးပြီ။
I've already eaten.
ပြီး plus ပြီ says the meal is finished; ကျွန်မ shows a woman is speaking.
- ထမင်းစားပြီးပြီလား။
Have you eaten yet?
ပြီလား asks whether something has happened yet.
- မိုးရွာပြီ။
It's started raining.
ပြီ reports a change: it was dry a moment ago.
- ကျွန်တော် အိမ်ရောက်ပြီ။
I'm home now.
ပြီ tells the listener he has just arrived; ကျွန်တော် shows a man is speaking.
Common Mistakes
Ending with ပြီး alone to say "I've eaten."
ကျွန်မ စားပြီး။ကျွန်မ စားပြီးပြီ။ပြီး means finish. The sentence still needs the ending ပြီ after it.
Using ပြီ in a negative sentence.
မရောက်ပြီ။မရောက်သေးဘူး။A negative sentence ends in ဘူး. For "not yet", use မ…သေးဘူး.
How It Connects
Learn This First
ပြီ is easiest to learn next to ခဲ့, the plain past.
Related Patterns
- ပြီးActions in Sequence
ပြီး joins one action to the next; ပြီးပြီ says it is finished.
Level 2 - မ…သေးဘူးNot Yet
This is the usual "no" to a question that ends in ပြီလား.
Level 2 - တယ်Plain Statements
တယ် states a plain fact; ပြီ reports a change.
Level 1 - တော့မယ်About to Happen
တော့မယ် says a change is about to happen; ပြီ says it has happened.
Level 2 - ပြီးသားAlready Done
ပြီးသား stresses that something was done some time ago.
Level 3
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