ဖူး

Have You Ever?

Level 2

For "never", put မ before the verb and ဖူးဘူး after it: မစားဖူးဘူး။ (I've never eaten it.)

How It Works

ဖူး goes between the verb and the ending. It means "at least once, at some time".

FormExampleMeaning
Statementရောက်ဖူးတယ်။I've been there.
Questionရောက်ဖူးလား။Have you ever been there?
Neverမရောက်ဖူးဘူး။I've never been there.
Not yetမရောက်ဖူးသေးဘူး။I haven't been there yet.

For places, use ရောက် (reach) or သွား (go): မော်လမြိုင် ရောက်ဖူးလား။ (Have you ever been to Mawlamyine?) For food, use စား: လက်ဖက်သုပ် စားဖူးလား။

To answer, repeat the verb with ဖူး: စားဖူးတယ်။ (Yes, I have.) or မစားဖူးဘူး။ (No, never.)

ဖူး says only that something happened at some point. When you name a time, such as yesterday or last year, use ခဲ့: မနေ့က သွားခဲ့တယ်။ (I went yesterday.)

A friendly way to start a chat about food is မုန့်ဟင်းခါး စားဖူးလား။ (Have you ever had mohinga?)

Examples (5)

  1. ပုဂံကို ရောက်ဖူးလား။

    Have you ever been to Bagan?

    ဖူးလား asks about experience at any time.

  2. ကျွန်မ မုန့်ဟင်းခါး စားဖူးတယ်။

    I've had mohinga before.

    ဖူး says she has eaten it at least once.

  3. ကျွန်တော် လေယာဉ် မစီးဖူးဘူး။

    I've never been on a plane.

    မ…ဖူးဘူး means "never".

  4. အင်းလေးကို မရောက်ဖူးသေးဘူး။

    I haven't been to Inle Lake yet.

    ဖူး plus သေး means "never yet".

  5. ဒီသီချင်း ကြားဖူးလား။

    Have you heard this song before?

    ဖူး follows the verb ကြား (hear).

Common Mistakes

  • Using ဖူး with a named time.

    မနေ့က ပုဂံကို သွားဖူးတယ်။
    မနေ့က ပုဂံကို သွားခဲ့တယ်။

    With a time like yesterday, use ခဲ့. ဖူး is for experience at any time.

  • Saying "never" without မ.

    လေယာဉ် စီးဖူးဘူး။
    လေယာဉ် မစီးဖူးဘူး။

    ဘူး always needs မ before the verb.

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ဖူးLevel 2Have You Ever?

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Have you ever is easiest to learn next to the plain past, and it is often asked as a question.

Words in This Pattern

ဖူးလား