မ…တော့ဘူး

No Longer

Level 2

It also says you changed your mind: မသွားတော့ဘူး။ can mean "I'm not going after all."

How It Works

Use မ…တော့ဘူး for a change from yes to no. It was true before, and now it has stopped.

BeforeNow
ရန်ကုန်မှာ နေတယ်။ I live in Yangon.ရန်ကုန်မှာ မနေတော့ဘူး။ I don't live in Yangon anymore.
မိုးရွာတယ်။ It's raining.မိုး မရွာတော့ဘူး။ It's stopped raining.

The same form covers a plan you have dropped. မသွားတော့ဘူး။ means "I'm not going after all." The situation tells you which meaning fits.

Helper words sit between the verb and တော့. When you are full, say မစားနိုင်တော့ဘူး။ (I can't eat any more.) When you have lost interest, say မသွားချင်တော့ဘူး။ (I don't want to go anymore.)

In a shop, မရှိတော့ဘူး။ means "There's none left."

Keep it apart from မ…သေးဘူး (not yet). မ…သေးဘူး says a change is still to come. မ…တော့ဘူး says the change has come and the thing has stopped.

Examples (5)

  1. ဆေးလိပ် မသောက်တော့ဘူး။

    I don't smoke anymore.

    မ…တော့ဘူး says the habit has stopped.

  2. ကျွန်တော် ဒီမှာ အလုပ်မလုပ်တော့ဘူး။

    I don't work here anymore.

    He worked here before; တော့ shows that has changed.

  3. မိုး မရွာတော့ဘူး။

    It's stopped raining.

    The rain was falling, and now it is not.

  4. ဗိုက်ပြည့်ပြီ၊ မစားနိုင်တော့ဘူး။

    I'm full. I can't eat any more.

    နိုင် comes right after the verb, then တော့ဘူး.

  5. မနီလာ မန္တလေးကို မသွားတော့ဘူး။

    Ma Nilar isn't going to Mandalay after all.

    Here မ…တော့ဘူး shows a plan was dropped.

Common Mistakes

  • Leaving out မ.

    ဆေးလိပ် သောက်တော့ဘူး။
    ဆေးလိပ် မသောက်တော့ဘူး။

    ဘူး always needs မ before the verb.

  • Putting နိုင် after တော့.

    မစားတော့နိုင်ဘူး။
    မစားနိုင်တော့ဘူး။

    Helper words come right after the verb, then တော့, then ဘူး.

How It Connects

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မ…တော့ဘူးLevel 2No Longer

Learn This First

No longer is a negative that tells about a change, so the negative wrap and ပြီ come first.

Words in This Pattern

မတော့-တော့ဘူး