တာနဲ့

As Soon as

Level 3

It works for the past and the future: ရောက်တာနဲ့ ဖုန်းဆက်မယ်။ (I'll call as soon as I get there.)

How It Works

တာနဲ့ joins two actions with no gap between them. The first one happens, and the second follows at once.

As soon as…Then…English
အိမ်ရောက်တာနဲ့အိပ်ပျော်သွားတယ်။I fell asleep as soon as I got home.
ရောက်တာနဲ့ဖုန်းဆက်မယ်။I'll call as soon as I arrive.
နိုးတာနဲ့ကော်ဖီ သောက်တယ်။I drink coffee as soon as I wake up.

The pieces are the ones you already know: တာ turns the verb into a noun, and နဲ့ means "with". The ending of the second clause sets the time: past, habit or future.

For extra force, add တပြိုင်နက် (at the same moment): ရောက်တာနဲ့ တပြိုင်နက်.

You will also hear တာနဲ့ give a reason: အချိန်မရှိတာနဲ့ မလာဖြစ်ဘူး။ (I didn't have time, so I didn't make it.) When the second action follows right away, it means "as soon as". Writing uses သည်နှင့်.

Examples (5)

  1. အိမ်ရောက်တာနဲ့ အိပ်ပျော်သွားတယ်။

    I fell asleep as soon as I got home.

    ရောက်တာနဲ့ means "as soon as I arrived".

  2. ရောက်တာနဲ့ ဖုန်းဆက်မယ်နော်။

    I'll call you as soon as I get there, OK?

    The second clause in မယ် makes it a promise.

  3. ဆရာ ဝင်လာတာနဲ့ ကျောင်းသားတွေ တိတ်သွားတယ်။

    As soon as the teacher walked in, the students went quiet.

    The students' reaction follows at once.

  4. ကျွန်မ မနက်နိုးတာနဲ့ ကော်ဖီသောက်တယ်။

    I drink coffee as soon as I wake up.

    A woman describes a daily habit.

  5. ဘတ်စ်ကား ရပ်တာနဲ့ လူတွေ တက်ကြတယ်။

    As soon as the bus stopped, people got on.

    ရပ်တာနဲ့ marks the moment the bus stopped.

Common Mistakes

  • Using the ending တယ် before နဲ့.

    ရောက်တယ်နဲ့ ဖုန်းဆက်မယ်။
    ရောက်တာနဲ့ ဖုန်းဆက်မယ်။

    The verb needs တာ before နဲ့.

How It Connects

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တာနဲ့Level 3As Soon as

Learn This First

As soon as joins တာ and နဲ့, so both come first.

Words in This Pattern

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