ကော

What About You?

Level 1

Said about a person who is missing, it asks where that person is: အမေကော။ (Where's Mom?)

How It Works

ကော saves you from repeating a whole question. After one person answers, ask the next person the same thing with one word.

QuestionMeaning
ရှင်ကော။And you?
မနက်ဖြန်ကော။What about tomorrow?
ဒီဟင်းကော ကြိုက်လား။And this curry, do you like it?
အမေကော။Where's Mom?

When the person is not there, the question means where is…?. A child home from school asks အမေကော။ to find Mom.

For also in a statement, use လည်း: ကျွန်မလည်း သွားမယ်။ (I'll go too).

ကော always follows the word it asks about, and the short question needs no other ending.

Examples (5)

  1. ရှင်ကော။

    And you?

    A woman turns the question back with ရှင်ကော.

  2. ကျွန်တော် ကော်ဖီ သောက်မယ်၊ ခင်ဗျားကော။

    I'll have coffee. What about you?

    A man asks about the listener with ကော.

  3. အမေကော။

    Where's Mom?

    ကော after someone who is not there asks where that person is.

  4. မနက်ဖြန်ကော အားလား။

    What about tomorrow? Are you free?

    ကော moves the question to a new day.

  5. ဒီဟင်းကော ကြိုက်လား။

    And do you like this curry?

    ကော adds a new thing to the question, and လား asks it.

Common Mistakes

  • Using လည်း to ask "What about you?"

    ရှင်လည်း။
    ရှင်ကော။

    လည်း means "also" in a statement. To ask about someone, use ကော.

How It Connects

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ကောLevel 1What About You?

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ကော asks a question again about a new person or thing, so learners first need a simple question.

Words in This Pattern

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