နဲ့တူ

Looking Like Someone

Level 2

To say two people look alike, join them with နဲ့ and end with တူတယ်.

How It Works

တူ is a verb that means "to be alike". The thing you compare with takes နဲ့, the same word that means "with". So ခင်ခင်က အမေနဲ့ တူတယ်။ means that Khin Khin looks like her mother.

BurmeseEnglish
A က B နဲ့ တူတယ်။A looks like B.
A က B နဲ့ မတူဘူး။A is not like B.
A ဘယ်သူနဲ့ တူလဲ။Who does A look like?
A နဲ့ B တူတယ်။A and B are alike.

The same pattern works for places, food and sounds, so you can say a town is like Yangon or a dish is like one you know. Add အရမ်း before တူ for "looks a lot like".

For the negative, put မ before တူ and end with ဘူး: နဲ့ မတူဘူး. The word နဲ့ stays where it is. To say "like" in the sense of "in the same way as", use လို (ကလေးလို ငိုတယ်။ He cries like a child.).

Examples (5)

  1. ခင်ခင်က သူ့အမေနဲ့ အရမ်းတူတယ်။

    Khin Khin looks a lot like her mother.

    သူ့အမေနဲ့ marks who she looks like, and တူတယ် ends the sentence.

  2. မော်လမြိုင်က ရန်ကုန်နဲ့ မတူဘူး။

    Mawlamyine isn't like Yangon.

    The negative puts မ before တူ and ends with ဘူး.

  3. ဒီကလေး ဘယ်သူနဲ့ တူလဲ။

    Who does this child look like?

    ဘယ်သူနဲ့ asks who, and the question ends with လဲ.

  4. ကျွန်မက အမေနဲ့ မတူဘူး၊ အဖေနဲ့ တူတယ်။

    I don't look like my mum. I look like my dad.

    A woman is speaking (ကျွန်မ), and each half has its own နဲ့.

  5. ကျွန်တော်နဲ့ ကျွန်တော့်ညီ အသံတူတယ်။

    My younger brother and I sound alike.

    A man is speaking (ကျွန်တော်); နဲ့ joins the two people who are alike.

Common Mistakes

  • Using ကို for the person you look like.

    ခင်ခင်က အမေကို တူတယ်။
    ခင်ခင်က အမေနဲ့ တူတယ်။

    The person you compare with takes နဲ့, never ကို.

How It Connects

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နဲ့တူLevel 2Looking Like Someone

Learn This First

Looking like someone uses နဲ့ and a negative form, so those come first.

Words in This Pattern

တူနဲ့