Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Feelings-and-Emotions

Burmese Vocabulary - Feelings and Emotions

Hi Burmese learners! 😊
In this lesson, we will learn about emotions and feelings in Burmese. Being able to express your emotions properly is crucial for a better communication with Burmese people. Let's get started!

Consider exploring these related pages after completing this lesson: Family & Modes of Transportation.

Basic Emotions

In Burmese, there are many words to describe your emotions. Let's start with the basic ones:

Burmese	Pronunciation	English
အပြည့်	a pyi	happy
ကျော်သော	kyau se	sad
အားလုံးကြီးမဲ့	a laung kyee maer	angry
ငါးကြီး	nga kyee	scared/fearful
ပုန်းနေသော	pone ne se	bored
နှစ်ပါးချောင်း	hnal par chauj nga	surprised

Example dialogue:

• Person 1: ရွှေ့လိုက်မယ်။ (shwe lay ko ma) (I am happy)
• Person 2: ကျော်သောလား။ (kyau se law) (Are you sad?)
• Person 1: အားလုံးကြီးမဲ့ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ (a laung kyee maer pyet par tal) (I am angry)

Complex Emotions

Now that we know the basic emotions, let's look at some more complex ones.

Burmese	Pronunciation	English
ကိုယ်တို့အားလုံးပဲမဲ့	koy tui alaung kyee pyi maer	jealous
ပန်းပေါက်သော	pan pawk se	guilty
သွားချက်	swar chet	homesick
အောက်ပါနဲ့	auk par ne	excited

Example dialogue:

• Person 1: ကျွန်တော့ သင့်အလုပ်လုပ်ဖို့ အရေုတွေ့ကြည့်ပါပြီ။ (kyun taw sa lote loat pyi aya twar) (I am happy that you are working)
• Person 2: ကိုယ်တို့ကို ပြန့်မလို့ပဲကြေညာပါလိမ့်မယ်။ (koy tui pur ma lo pyi ka nyi ya ba lo may mai) (Don't be jealous, you can also learn)
• Person 1: ငါကလေးလေးကို သွားမပေးနိုင်တယ်ဆိုရင်တော့ တစ်ကာလတည်းက ဒါပေမယ့်လို့လဲ။ (nga lay lay koi swar mapei noh nite ka ta kaw lite da ma pes lo ya la) (If I miss my girlfriend, is it normal that I want to visit her at least once a week?)

Vocabulary and Expressions

Here are some more specific words and expression related to emotions:

Burmese	Pronunciation	English
အစိုးရုံ	a su yu n	hope
သော့ချစ်ရတဲ့	sorchet ya te	nostalgic
ညစ်ညစ်	nyi jhi nyi jhi	embarrassed
သင့်စိတ်ကြည့်ပါ	sing sait kain pya	express yourself
နောက်ပိုင်းပေါ့	naug hpu ng paw	calm down

Example dialogue:

• Person 1: သင့်ရဲ့နှစ်ပါးသည် လိုနေသလို့မဟုတ် ကျွန်ပုံတို့က အိုးမကန်ပါတယ်။ (sing yae par hnall par law kaun) (Your surprise is nothing compared to our photos)
• Person 2: နောက်ပိုင်းပေါ့တထည့်ရတဲ့အခါ အစိုးရုံကို လေ့ကျင့်သင့်မွာသိပါပြီ။ (naug hpu ng paw tet yain yar achoung lei kye loat twa nit hmar tha ba ba) (When you feel anxious, it's good to have hope)
• Person 1: သင့်အထဲမှာ သော့ချစ်ရေးရအောင် အားလုံး ကို သတ်မှတ်တဲ့အခါမှာ ညစ်ညစ်ရတာကြီးပါ။ (sing tet mar sorchet yei ya ya naung thi tha nyi jhi nyi jhi lar) (When you recall your childhood memories, it's normal to feel a little embarrassed)

Fun Facts

- Burmese people usually express their positive emotions by smiling or laughing. Even in difficult times, they tend to keep a positive attitude to avoid bad spirits and negative vibes. - The Burmese language has many words to describe the same emotion, depending on the context, intensity, or duration of the feeling. The more you practice, the better you can differentiate and use them. - Burmese people are usually very expressive with their emotions, especially in public spaces. They tend to shout, talk very loudly, or use hand gestures to express themselves.

If you want to learn more about our Burmese language, check out our native speakers and ask them any questions. You can also improve your Vocabulary by practicing regularly. Don't hesitate to express yourself in Burmese!

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Sources

• Psycho-collocational expressives in Burmese (Chapter 16) - The ...

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