ဘယ်လို

How

Level 1

ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ on its own asks what something is like: ရာသီဥတု ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ (What's the weather like?)

How It Works

ဘယ်လို goes just before the verb it asks about. The question ends with လဲ, or မလဲ for a plan.

QuestionMeaning
ဘယ်လို ရေးလဲ။How do you write it?
ဘယ်လို သွားမလဲ။How will you get there?
ဘယ်လိုခေါ်လဲ။What is it called?
ဘယ်လိုလဲ။What is it like? How is it?

Burmese asks for a name with how: ရှင့်နာမည် ဘယ်လိုခေါ်လဲ။ is word for word Your name, how is it called? It means What's your name?

To ask how to say a word in Burmese, point and ask ဒါ မြန်မာလို ဘယ်လိုခေါ်လဲ။

The answer keeps the same order: ဘတ်စ်ကားနဲ့ သွားမယ်။ (I'll go by bus.)

Examples (5)

  1. ရှင့်နာမည် ဘယ်လိုခေါ်လဲ။

    What's your name?

    A woman is asking. ဘယ်လိုခေါ် asks how a name is said.

  2. ဒီစကားလုံး ဘယ်လို ရေးလဲ။

    How do you write this word?

    ဘယ်လို comes right before the verb ရေး (write).

  3. ဘယ်လို သွားမလဲ။

    How will you get there?

    With a plan, the question ends with မလဲ.

  4. ဒီနေ့ ရာသီဥတု ဘယ်လိုလဲ။

    What's the weather like today?

    ဘယ်လိုလဲ asks what something is like.

  5. ဒီဟင်း ဘယ်လို ချက်လဲ။

    How do you cook this curry?

    ဘယ်လို asks about the way to cook it.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ဘယ်လို after the verb.

    ဒီဟင်း ချက်ဘယ်လိုလဲ။
    ဒီဟင်း ဘယ်လို ချက်လဲ။

    ဘယ်လို goes before the verb, and လဲ closes the question.

How It Connects

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How works like the other question words, so what and who come first.

Words in This Pattern

ဘယ်လိုလဲ