ပေသည်

Weight in Literary Prose

Level 6

ပေ also goes before other endings: ပေမည် and ပေလိမ့်မည် (will surely), and the older ပေ၏.

How It Works

ပေ is a small word that makes a written statement sound firm and thoughtful, like "indeed" or "truly" in English.

PlainWith ပေMeaning
မှန်သည်။မှန်ပေသည်။That is true indeed.
လှပသည်။လှပပေသည်။It is truly beautiful.
ကောင်းလိမ့်မည်။ကောင်းပေလိမ့်မည်။It will surely be good.

Put ပေ right after the verb, before the ending. The ending tells the time as usual: သည် for a plain statement, မည် or လိမ့်မည် for the future.

Editorials, essays and literature use ပေသည် to close a point: education truly matters, such effort truly deserves praise. A writer uses it once or twice in a piece, at the key line. Plain news reports keep to plain သည်.

The negative မ…ပေ is a separate written ending that means simply "not". In speech, the same weight comes from tone and from words like တကယ် (really): တကယ် လှတယ် (it is really beautiful).

ပေ comes after any other helper words on the verb, such as နိုင် (can): ကောင်းနိုင်ပေသည် means it can truly be good. Only the ending comes after ပေ.

Examples (5)

  1. မှန်ပေသည်။

    That is true indeed.

    ပေ gives the plain statement weight.

  2. ပညာရေးသည် နိုင်ငံ၏ အနာဂတ်အတွက် အရေးကြီးပေသည်။

    Education truly matters for the country's future.

    An editorial makes its key point with ပေသည်.

  3. ထိုသို့ ကြိုးစားခြင်းသည် ချီးကျူးဖွယ် ကောင်းပေသည်။

    Such effort truly deserves praise.

    ပေ comes right before the ending သည်.

  4. ယခုနှစ် စပါးအထွက် ကောင်းပေလိမ့်မည်။

    This year's rice harvest will surely be good.

    ပေ before လိမ့်မည် means "will surely".

  5. ဤနေရာသည် အလွန် လှပပေသည်။

    This place is truly beautiful.

    ပေသည် adds feeling to a description.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ပေ after the ending.

    မှန်သည်ပေ။
    မှန်ပေသည်။

    ပေ goes between the verb and the ending.

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ပေသည်Level 6Weight in Literary Prose

Learn This First

The weight word ပေ is the same ပေ found in written negatives.

Words in This Pattern

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