မ…နဲ့

Asking Someone Not to

Level 1

Between friends, drop ပါ: မသွားနဲ့။ (Don't go.)

How It Works

To ask someone not to do something, the verb sits inside a frame. You will hear this frame at pagodas, in shops and at home.

RequestBurmese
Please go.သွားပါ။
Please don't go.မသွားပါနဲ့။
Don't go. (to a friend)မသွားနဲ့။

Keep နဲ့ and ဘူး apart. မသွားပါဘူး။ means I won't go, a statement about yourself. မသွားပါနဲ့။ asks the listener not to go.

This နဲ့ has a different job from the နဲ့ that means with or and. The spelling is the same, and the position tells them apart: this one closes the sentence.

Examples (5)

  1. စိတ်မပူပါနဲ့။

    Please don't worry.

    မ goes inside the two-part verb စိတ်ပူ, before ပူ.

  2. ဒီမှာ ဓာတ်ပုံ မရိုက်ပါနဲ့။

    Please don't take photos here.

    မ…ပါနဲ့ wraps the verb ရိုက် (take a photo).

  3. ဆေးလိပ် မသောက်ပါနဲ့။

    Please don't smoke.

    A polite request not to smoke.

  4. မမေ့ပါနဲ့။

    Please don't forget.

    မ goes before မေ့ (forget), and ပါနဲ့ follows it.

  5. ဘုရားပေါ်မှာ ဖိနပ် မစီးပါနဲ့။

    Please don't wear shoes on the pagoda grounds.

    Someone politely reminds a visitor with မ…ပါနဲ့.

Common Mistakes

  • Using ဘူး for a request.

    စိတ်မပူပါဘူး။
    စိတ်မပူပါနဲ့။

    With ဘူး the sentence means "I'm not worried." To ask someone not to worry, end with နဲ့.

How It Connects

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မ…နဲ့Level 1Asking Someone Not to

Learn This First

Asking someone not to do something mixes a polite request with the negative မ, so both come first.

Words in This Pattern

မနဲ့ပါ