ရုံ

Just Doing That

Level 3

ရုံနဲ့ means "just by doing it": ကြည့်ရုံနဲ့ သိတယ်။ (You can tell just by looking.)

How It Works

ရုံ limits an action. It says you do only that much.

FormExampleEnglish
only thatကြည့်ရုံပဲ ကြည့်တာပါ။I'm just looking.
just byကြည့်ရုံနဲ့ သိတယ်။You can tell just by looking.
only justရောက်ရုံပဲ ရှိသေးတယ်။I've only just arrived.
all you doနှိပ်ရုံပါပဲ။All you do is press it.

In shops, ကြည့်ရုံပဲ ကြည့်တာပါ is the polite way to say you are not buying yet.

ရုံပဲ ရှိသေးတယ် means the action has only just happened: ရောက်ရုံပဲ ရှိသေးတယ် (I've only just got here).

ရုံ goes only after a verb. After a noun, use ပဲ: ရေပဲ သောက်မယ် (I'll just have water).

In a negative, ရုံနဲ့ says one step is not enough: ကြည့်ရုံနဲ့ မသိနိုင်ဘူး (You can't tell just by looking). Use it when someone thinks a quick look is enough.

Examples (5)

  1. ကြည့်ရုံပဲ ကြည့်တာပါ။

    I'm just looking.

    ရုံပဲ limits the action to looking.

  2. ကျွန်မ ရောက်ရုံပဲ ရှိသေးတယ်။

    I've only just arrived.

    A woman speaks. ရုံပဲ ရှိသေးတယ် means "only just".

  3. ကြည့်ရုံနဲ့ သိတယ်။

    You can tell just by looking.

    ရုံနဲ့ means "just by".

  4. ဒီခလုတ်ကို နှိပ်ရုံပါပဲ။

    All you do is press this button.

    ရုံပါပဲ says pressing is the whole job.

  5. ကျွန်တော် မေးရုံ မေးတာပါ။

    I'm only asking.

    A man speaks. The verb comes twice.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ရုံ after a noun.

    ရေရုံ သောက်မယ်။
    ရေပဲ သောက်မယ်။

    ရုံ follows verbs only. After a noun, "just" is ပဲ.

How It Connects

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ရုံLevel 3Just Doing That

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Just doing that usually comes with ပဲ and the explaining ending တာပါ.

Words in This Pattern

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