ဦး

First and a Bit More

Level 2

This ဦး is spelled like the title ဦး for an older man, but here it closes the sentence.

How It Works

ဦး softens a request or a plan. It adds the idea "first, before anything else" or "a little more".

PhraseMeaning
ထိုင်ပါဦး။Have a seat (first).
ခဏ စောင့်ပါဦး။Please wait a moment.
စားပါဦး။Have some more. / Eat first.
စဉ်းစားဦးမယ်။I'll think it over first.
သွားဦးမယ်။I'll be going now.

In a request, ဦး comes last, after ပါ. In a plan, ဦး comes before မယ်.

Hosts use it to offer more food: ထမင်း ထည့်ဦးမလား။ (Would you like some more rice?)

သွားဦးမယ် is a warm way to say goodbye when you leave. It means "I'll go for now".

When ဦး is a title before a name, as in ဦးအောင်ကျော်, it means "Mr" for an older man. The two are easy to tell apart: the title comes before a name, and this ဦး ends a sentence.

Examples (5)

  1. ခဏ စောင့်ပါဦး။

    Please wait a moment.

    ဦး after ပါ softens the request.

  2. ထိုင်ပါဦးရှင်။

    Please have a seat.

    ဦး makes the offer warm; ရှင် shows a woman is speaking.

  3. ကျွန်တော် စဉ်းစားဦးမယ်။

    I'll think about it first.

    ဦး before မယ် means "first, before I decide".

  4. ထမင်း ထည့်ဦးမလား။

    Would you like some more rice?

    ဦးမလား offers "a bit more".

  5. ကျွန်မ သွားဦးမယ်နော်။

    I'll be going now, OK?

    သွားဦးမယ် is a friendly goodbye.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ဦး before ပါ in a request.

    စောင့်ဦးပါ။
    စောင့်ပါဦး။

    In a polite request, ပါ comes first and ဦး ends it.

  • Putting ဦး after မယ်.

    စဉ်းစားမယ်ဦး။
    စဉ်းစားဦးမယ်။

    In a plan, ဦး comes before the ending မယ်.

How It Connects

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ဦးLevel 2First and a Bit More

Learn This First

ဦး comes after ပါ in a request and before မယ် in a plan, so those come first.

Words in This Pattern

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