ပေမယ့်

Although and but

Level 3

To start a new sentence with "but", use ဒါပေမယ့်.

How It Works

ပေမယ့် joins two facts that pull against each other. It sits at the end of the first clause.

First fact + ပေမယ့်Second fact
ဈေးကြီးပေမယ့်ကောင်းတယ်။
မိုးရွာနေပေမယ့်သွားရမယ်။
စောစော ထွက်ခဲ့ပေမယ့်နောက်ကျသွားတယ်။

English can say "although A, B" or "A, but B". Burmese has one shape for both: A-ပေမယ့် B.

The verb before ပေမယ့် loses တယ် or မယ်. Helpers such as နေ, ခဲ့ and the negative မ stay.

You will also see it spelled ပေမဲ့. Both are common, and they sound the same. When the two facts are separate sentences, start the second with ဒါပေမယ့်. Writing uses သော်လည်း.

The two clauses can have different subjects: ကျွန်မ ခေါ်ပေမယ့် သူ မကြားဘူး။ (I called, but he didn't hear.) Put each subject at the start of its own clause.

Examples (5)

  1. ဈေးကြီးပေမယ့် အရမ်းကောင်းတယ်။

    It's expensive, but it's really good.

    ပေမယ့် ends the first clause.

  2. မိုးရွာနေပေမယ့် ကျွန်မ ကျောင်းသွားရမယ်။

    It's raining, but I have to go to school.

    A woman is speaking; နေ stays before ပေမယ့်.

  3. ကျွန်တော် မြန်မာလို နားလည်ပေမယ့် မပြောတတ်သေးဘူး။

    I understand Burmese, but I can't speak it yet.

    A man is speaking; the second clause is the surprise.

  4. စောစော ထွက်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် နောက်ကျသွားတယ်။

    I left early, but I was still late.

    ခဲ့ stays inside the first clause.

  5. သူ ပင်ပန်းနေပေမယ့် ကူညီပေးတယ်။

    She was tired, but she still helped.

    သူ means "he" or "she"; ပေမယ့် joins the two facts.

Common Mistakes

  • Keeping တယ် before ပေမယ့်.

    ဈေးကြီးတယ်ပေမယ့် ကောင်းတယ်။
    ဈေးကြီးပေမယ့် ကောင်းတယ်။

    The first clause drops its ending before ပေမယ့်.

How It Connects

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ပေမယ့်Level 3Although and but

Learn This First

ပေမယ့် does at the end of a clause what ဒါပေမယ့် does at the start of a sentence.

Words in This Pattern

ပေမဲ့