ဒီ / အဲဒီ / ဟို

This and That Before a Noun

Level 1

ဒီနေ့ (today) is literally "this day", so you will hear ဒီ in many everyday words.

How It Works

These three words always come before the noun they point at.

WordUseExample
ဒီnear meဒီဆိုင် (this shop)
အဲဒီthe one we talked about, or near youအဲဒီဆိုင် (that shop)
ဟိုfar from both of usဟိုဆိုင် (that shop over there)

The pointing word does not change for plurals or for people. ဒီကလေး means this child, and ဒီကလေးတွေ means these children.

To say this one with no noun after it, use ဒါ or အဲဒါ, taught in the next entry. Writing uses ဤ and ထို for this and that.

Examples (5)

  1. ဒီဆိုင် ဈေးပေါတယ်။

    This shop is cheap.

    ဒီ comes right before ဆိုင်.

  2. ဟိုအိမ် ကြီးတယ်။

    That house over there is big.

    ဟို points at a house far away.

  3. အဲဒီဆရာ သဘောကောင်းတယ်။

    That teacher is kind.

    အဲဒီ points back to a teacher already talked about.

  4. ဒီကော်ဖီ ချိုတယ်။

    This coffee is sweet.

    ဒီ points at the coffee near the speaker.

  5. ဟိုကားက ကျွန်တော့်ကားပါ။

    That car over there is mine.

    A man points at a car far away with ဟို.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ဒီ after the noun.

    ဆိုင်ဒီ ဈေးပေါတယ်။
    ဒီဆိုင် ဈေးပေါတယ်။

    The pointing word always comes before the noun.

How It Connects

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ဒီ / အဲဒီ / ဟိုLevel 1This and That Before a Noun

Words in This Pattern

ဒီအဲဒီဟို