စရာ

Something to Do

Level 3

V-စရာ မလိုဘူး means there is no need to do it: စိတ်ပူစရာ မလိုဘူး။ (There's no need to worry.)

How It Works

စရာ after a verb makes a noun: the thing you can do, or have to do, with that action.

VerbWith စရာEnglish
စား (eat)စားစရာsomething to eat
ဖတ် (read)ဖတ်စရာsomething to read
လုပ် (do)လုပ်စရာa job to do
ဝယ် (buy)ဝယ်စရာsomething to buy
ပြော (say)ပြောစရာsomething to say

Put the new noun with ရှိ (there is), လို (need) or များ (be many): လုပ်စရာ များတယ် (I have a lot to do). It takes a number and classifier like any noun: ပြောစရာ တစ်ခု (one thing to tell you).

V-စရာ မလိုဘူး means there is no need to do it: စိတ်ပူစရာ မလိုဘူး။ (There's no need to worry.) Keep both parts of the negative, မ and ဘူး.

After a feeling verb, စရာကောင်းတယ် describes what causes the feeling: ကြောက်စရာကောင်းတယ် (it's scary). It means the same as ဖို့ကောင်းတယ်.

Examples (5)

  1. ဗိုက်ဆာတယ်၊ စားစရာ ရှိလား။

    I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?

    စားစရာ means "something to eat".

  2. ဒီနေ့ လုပ်စရာ အများကြီး ရှိတယ်။

    I have lots to do today.

    လုပ်စရာ is the work still waiting.

  3. ခရီးမသွားခင် ဝယ်စရာ နည်းနည်း ရှိသေးတယ်။

    I still have a few things to buy before the trip.

    ဝယ်စရာ means "things to buy".

  4. စိတ်ပူစရာ မလိုပါဘူးရှင်။

    There's no need to worry.

    A woman is speaking; V-စရာ မလိုဘူး means there is no need.

  5. ကျွန်တော် ပြောစရာ တစ်ခု ရှိတယ်။

    I have something to tell you.

    A man is speaking; ပြောစရာ takes the classifier ခု.

Common Mistakes

  • Dropping မ from "no need to".

    စိတ်ပူစရာ လိုဘူး။
    စိတ်ပူစရာ မလိုဘူး။

    A negative needs both parts: မ before the verb and ဘူး after it.

How It Connects

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စရာLevel 3Something to Do

Learn This First

Something to do is often asked with ရှိလား, and it names a purpose like ဖို့.

Words in This Pattern

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