ဘယ်ဟာ / ဘယ်…

Which One

Level 1

Many time questions use this ဘယ်: ဘယ်နေ့ (which day) and ဘယ်အချိန် (what time).

How It Works

These words match the pointing words you already know. ဒီ goes before a noun, and so does ဘယ်. ဒါ stands alone, and so does ဘယ်ဟာ.

PointingAsking
ဒီဆိုင် (this shop)ဘယ်ဆိုင် (which shop)
ဒါ (this one)ဘယ်ဟာ (which one)
ဒီနေ့ (today)ဘယ်နေ့ (which day)

In a shop, hold up two things and ask ဘယ်ဟာ ကောင်းလဲ။ (Which one is better?). To ask about a time, use ဘယ်နေ့ or ဘယ်အချိန်: ဘယ်နေ့ လာမလဲ။ (Which day will you come?).

The answer uses the matching pointing word: ဒါ ယူမယ်။ (I'll take this one.) or ဟိုဟာ ယူမယ်။ (I'll take that one over there.)

Examples (5)

  1. ဘယ်ဟာ ယူမလဲ။

    Which one will you take?

    ဘယ်ဟာ stands alone with no noun after it.

  2. ဘယ်ဆိုင် သွားမလဲ။

    Which shop will you go to?

    ဘယ် goes right before the noun ဆိုင်.

  3. ဘယ်ရထား စီးမလဲ။

    Which train will you take?

    ဘယ် goes before ရထား (train).

  4. ဘယ်နေ့ လာမလဲ။

    Which day will you come?

    ဘယ်နေ့ asks which day.

  5. ရှင့်အိတ်က ဘယ်ဟာလဲ။

    Which one is your bag?

    A woman is asking. ဘယ်ဟာ closes the question with လဲ.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting ဘယ်ဟာ before a noun.

    ဘယ်ဟာဆိုင် သွားမလဲ။
    ဘယ်ဆိုင် သွားမလဲ။

    Before a noun, use ဘယ် alone. ဘယ်ဟာ is only for "which one" with no noun.

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