မှာပါ

Another Future Ending

Level 2

This မှာ is spelled like မှာ "at", but at the end of a sentence it points to the future.

How It Works

Burmese has two common future endings. မယ် says what will happen. မှာ presents it as something planned or expected.

UseExampleMeaning
Sure statementလာမှာပါ။I'm sure she'll come.
Yes-or-no questionသွားမှာလား။Are you going to go?
Question wordဘယ်တော့ ပြန်မှာလဲ။When are you going back?

People use မှာပါ to reassure someone: မစိုးရိမ်ပါနဲ့၊ အဆင်ပြေမှာပါ။ (Don't worry. It'll be fine.)

In questions, မှာလား asks about a plan already made: မန္တလေးကို ရထားနဲ့ သွားမှာလား။ (Are you going to Mandalay by train?) မလား also makes offers, as in သွားမလား။ (Shall we go?)

မှာ is the whole ending. Do not add တယ် after it. Finish with ပါ, or with လား or လဲ in a question.

For the negative, use the plain negative: မလာဘူး။ (He's not coming.)

Examples (5)

  1. မစိုးရိမ်ပါနဲ့၊ အဆင်ပြေမှာပါ။

    Don't worry. It'll be fine.

    မှာပါ says the speaker is sure.

  2. ဘယ်တော့ ပြန်မှာလဲ။

    When are you going back?

    မှာလဲ asks about a plan.

  3. ဒီညနေ ဘာလုပ်မှာလဲ။

    What are you doing this evening?

    မှာလဲ asks about plans for later today.

  4. ခင်ခင် မနက်ဖြန် လာမှာပါ။

    I'm sure Khin Khin will come tomorrow.

    မှာပါ shows the speaker expects it.

  5. မန္တလေးကို ရထားနဲ့ သွားမှာလား။

    Are you going to Mandalay by train?

    မှာလား asks about a plan already made.

Common Mistakes

  • Adding တယ် after မှာ.

    လာမှာတယ်။
    လာမှာပါ။

    မှာ is already the ending. Finish with ပါ, or with လား or လဲ in a question.

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မှာပါLevel 2Another Future Ending

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မှာပါလဲလား