လဲ

Question-Word Questions

Level 1

For a future question, join မ and လဲ into မလဲ, as in ဘယ်အချိန် ရောက်မလဲ။ (What time will you arrive?)

How It Works

Burmese has two main question endings. Choose by looking for a question word. If the question has one, end with လဲ. If it has none, end with လား.

Question word	Example	Meaning
ဘာ (what)	ဘာလုပ်လဲ။	What did you do?
ဘယ်သူ (who)	ဘယ်သူလဲ။	Who is it?
ဘယ်မှာ (where)	ဘယ်မှာလဲ။	Where is it?
ဘယ်လောက် (how much)	ဘယ်လောက်လဲ။	How much is it?

For plans, use မလဲ: ဘာစားမလဲ။ (What will you eat?). The answer keeps the same order and puts the new word where the question word was: မုန့်ဟင်းခါး စားမယ်။

In a question, the question word and လဲ always go together.

Examples (5)

ဘယ်သူလဲ။
Who is it?
ဘယ်သူ is a question word, so the question ends with လဲ.
ဘယ်အချိန် ရောက်မလဲ။
What time will you arrive?
မလဲ asks about a future event.
ဘာသောက်မလဲ။
What will you drink?
ဘာ comes before the verb, and မလဲ ends the question.
အိမ် ဘယ်မှာလဲ။
Where is your house?
လဲ follows ဘယ်မှာ directly.
မနေ့က ဘာလုပ်လဲ။
What did you do yesterday?
လဲ covers the past too, with the time word မနေ့က.

Common Mistakes

Using လား after a question word.
အိမ်သာ ဘယ်မှာလား။
အိမ်သာ ဘယ်မှာလဲ။
ဘယ်မှာ is a question word, so the question ends with လဲ.

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လဲLevel 1Question-Word Questions

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လဲ is the partner of လား, so yes-or-no questions come first.

လားYes-or-No Questions
Know လား for yes-or-no questions, so you can tell when a question word needs လဲ instead.
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