မ…သေးဘူး

Not Yet

Level 2

It is the usual "no" to a question that ends in ပြီလား: ရောက်ပြီလား။ is answered မရောက်သေးဘူး။

How It Works

မ…သေးဘူး is the negative partner of ပြီ. ပြီ says a change has come. မ…သေးဘူး says it has not come yet, and you still expect it.

QuestionYesNot yet
ရောက်ပြီလား။ရောက်ပြီ။မရောက်သေးဘူး။
စားပြီးပြီလား။စားပြီးပြီ။မစားရသေးဘူး။

In the second row, ရ adds "had the chance": I haven't had a chance to eat yet. This is the friendly answer to the greeting ထမင်းစားပြီးပြီလား။

Helper words go between the verb and သေး. With ချင်: မသွားချင်သေးဘူး။ (I don't want to go yet.) With ဖူး: ပုဂံကို မရောက်ဖူးသေးဘူး။ (I haven't been to Bagan yet.)

For a polite answer to someone older or a stranger, put ပါ before ဘူး: မပြီးသေးပါဘူး။ (It isn't finished yet.)

မ…တော့ဘူး sounds close, and it means the change has already come: "not anymore".

Examples (5)

  1. ဘတ်စ်ကား မလာသေးဘူး။

    The bus hasn't come yet.

    မ…သေးဘူး says you are still waiting for it.

  2. ကျွန်မ ထမင်း မစားရသေးဘူး။

    I haven't had a chance to eat yet.

    ရ before သေး adds "had the chance"; ကျွန်မ shows a woman is speaking.

  3. ပုဂံကို မရောက်ဖူးသေးဘူး။

    I haven't been to Bagan yet.

    ဖူး comes before သေး: never yet.

  4. မသွားချင်သေးဘူး။

    I don't want to go yet.

    ချင် sits right after the verb, then သေးဘူး.

  5. ကျွန်တော် အလုပ် မပြီးသေးပါဘူးခင်ဗျာ။

    I haven't finished the work yet.

    ပါ before ဘူး makes it polite; ခင်ဗျာ shows a man is speaking.

Common Mistakes

  • Answering ရောက်ပြီလား (Are you there yet?) with plain မ…ဘူး.

    မရောက်ဘူး။
    မရောက်သေးဘူး။

    မရောက်ဘူး sounds like "I'm not coming at all". သေး keeps the meaning "yet".

How It Connects

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မ…သေးဘူးLevel 2Not Yet

Learn This First

Not yet is the negative of still and the answer to already, so those come first.

Words in This Pattern

မသေးဘူး