Burmese Grammar Guide

Burmese Grammar Guide A comprehensive review of Burmese Grammar

Intro

 * SOV
 * 1) comparison with other major languages (English, Chinese/Japanese, SEA languages)
 * 2) importance of particles

verbs

 * 1) tenses
 * 2) present (-တယ်)
 * 3) past (-တယ်, -ခဲ့တယ်, -လိုက်, -လာ, -ထား)
 * 4) general future (-မယ်, -ခဲ့)
 * 5) intermediate future (-တော့မယ်)
 * 6) probable future event (-လိမ့်မည်)
 * 7) negative statement (မ-ဘူး)
 * 8) command (-ပါ, မ-နဲ့, -လိုက်, -တော့, -ဦး)
 * 9) progression (-နေ)
 * 10) completion (-ပြီ)
 * 11) pluralisation (-ကြ)
 * 12) change of state (-သွား)
 * 13) expressing modal verbs
 * 14) can (-ရ, -တတ်, -နိုင်)
 * 15) may/must (-ရ)

nouns

 * 1) numerical classifiers (such as ခု, ယောက်, ဦး)
 * 2) noun markers (အ-, -မှု, -ချက်, -ရေး, -စရာ, -ခြင်း, -နည်း)
 * 3) အ-[x]-အ-[y] forms
 * 4) understanding nominalisation and how it is used in Burmese
 * 5) plural markers (-များ, -တွေ)

pronouns

 * 1) demonstrative pronouns (ဒီ/ဒါ, ဤ, အဲဒီ/အဲဒါ, ဟို, ထို)
 * 2) personal pronouns
 * 3) formal
 * 4) informal
 * 5) pluralisation (-တို့)
 * 6) interrogatives
 * 7) what/which (ဘာ, ဘယ်ဟာ)
 * 8) when (ဘယ်တော့, ဘယ်အချိန်, ဘယ်တုန်းက)
 * 9) where (ဘယ်မှာ, ဘယ်နေရာ)
 * 10) why (ဘယ်ဖြစ်လို့, ဘာကြောင့်)
 * 11) How, Who (ဘယ်လို, ဘယ်သူ)

adjectives

 * 1) adjective markers (-သော, -သည့်, -မည့်, -တဲ့)
 * 2) reduplication
 * 3) adverbs
 * 4) adverb marker (-စွာ)
 * 5) adverbs forming through reduplication

postpositions

 * 1) of location (-မှာ, -ပေါ်, -အောက်, -ထဲ, -ပြင်)
 * 2) how to combine particles such as -မှာ, -ပေါ် and -ထဲ to mean things like 'about/on [this topic]'
 * 3) others (-ကို, -နဲ့, မ-ဘဲ[နဲ့], -အတွက်, -ပေမဲ့/-ပေမယ်)

conjunctions

 * 1) -ပြီး and all its variations
 * 2) -နှင့်, -လို့, -ဖို့, -အောင်

sentence-level syntax

 * 1) subject, object marker
 * 2) reported speech
 * 3) Emphasis Particles (-ပဲ, -လေ, -လေး, -တော့, ပေါ့)
 * 4) order of particles
 * 5) other final particles (such as -စေ, -မိ, -စို့)
 * 6) analysis of some complex sentences

Comparison Of Formal And Colloquial Speech

 * 1) Mapping Of Particles From Formal To Colloquial

Vocabulary

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