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<div class="pg_page_title">Burmese Vocabulary - Geography</div>
<div class="pg_page_title">Burmese Vocabulary - Geography</div>
Hi [https://polyglotclub.com/language/burmese Burmese] learners! 😊<br>In this lesson, we will learn some of the most important Burmese words related to geography. __TOC__


== Countries ==
Hi [https://polyglotclub.com/language/burmese Burmese] learners! 😊<br>In this lesson, we will cover the basic geographical vocabulary in Burmese. Understanding geography is essential when it comes to traveling or simply knowing about the world around us. So let's dive into it and learn some Burmese geography vocabulary!
Here are some of the most common countries in Burmese:
 
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<span link>Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Months-of-the-Year|Months of the Year]] & [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Express-Surprise|Express Surprise]].</span>
== Landforms ==
Landforms are natural features of the earth's surface, and here are some Burmese words for some common landforms:
 
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English Translation
| တောင် || taung || mountain
|-
|-
| မြန်မာ || mran-ma || Myanmar
| တောင်ကြီး || taung gyi || hill
|-
|-
| အိုင်းရှား || aing-shar || Ireland
| တွေးကြီး || twe gyi || valley
|-
|-
| တောင်ကော် || taung-kau || Thailand
| ကျေးရွာ || kyay ya wa || plain
|-
|-
| ဂျူဒရာစ် || jū-dara-sar || Guatemala
| သွားလာတော် || swa la taung || plateau
|-
|}
| အယ်လ်ဂျီယာ || ai-ljī-ya || Algeria
 
|-
Dialogue:
| ဗမာ || bama || Burma
 
* Person 1: ဒီတောင်ကြီးမှာ ဘယ်လောက်ရှိနေလဲ။ (Where is this hill?)
* Person 2: ဒီတောင်ကြီး မှာ စောင့်နေလို့။ (I am standing on this hill.)
 
== Water Forms ==
Just like landforms, water forms are also natural features of the earth's surface. In Burmese, here are some common water forms:
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
| တောင်ပိုင်း || taung-pying || Taiwan
| ကြောင့် || kyaung || lake
|-
|-
| တောင်ချီ || taung-chī || Turkey
| ကန် || kan || river
|-
|-
| အမေရိက || a-me-ra-ka || America
| ခရမ်း || khami || stream
|-
|-
| ဂျူဒါ || jū-da || Judea
| ဆေးကန်း || se kan || waterfall
|-
|-
| အော့ဒ်နမ် || a-daung-man || Australia
| ထောက်ဖက် || taok hpaik || estuary
|}
|}


== Cities ==
Dialogue:
Here are some of the most common cities in Burmese:
 
* Person 1: ဒီကန်ဘယ်လောက်ပြောပြလိုက်တယ်လဲ။ (Where does this river lead to?)
* Person 2: ဒီကန် မှာယူပြီး ထိုင်းနွေးပိုင်းပြီး သွားသွားနေပြီ။ (This river flows into the sea.)
 
== Direction ==
In order to give and understand directions, it's important to know the basic directional words in Burmese:
 
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English Translation
| မြောက်  || myaw ka || north
|-
|-
| ရန်ကုန် || yan-kon || Yangon
| တောင်ကြီး || taung gyi || east
|-
|-
| မန္တလေး || man-ta-lei || Mandalay
| ဆေးရှင် || se shin || west
|-
|-
| နေပြည်တော် || ne-pyi-tau || Naypyidaw
| တောင်လှည့် || taung hlwan || south
|-
|}
| မြို့နယ် || mrui-nei || Myinmu
 
|-
Dialogue:
| မြောက် || mrauk-u || Mrauk U
 
|-
* Person 1: ယခုလောက်ကို တောင်ကြီးလိုက်တယ်။ (We need to go towards the east.)
| မွန်းမြေ || mwin-myei || Monywa
* Person 2: ကျန်းမာရေး အီးမေးလေးက မြောက်ကို လုပ်ရင်တောင်လိုက်ပါ။ (The immigration office is located in the north. Let's head there.)
|-
 
| မြန်မာနယ် || mran-ma-nei || Myanmarnei
== Climate ==
Climate plays a huge role in geography, and here are some Burmese words about different climates:
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Burmese !! Pronunciation !! English
|-
|-
| မြောင်းတော် || mraung-tau || Mraungtau
| ရေမြစ် || yey mas || tropical
|-
|-
| မြောင်းသား || mraung-tha || Mraungtha
| ဆောင်းပြီး || saung pri || humid
|-
|-
| မြို့နယ် || mrui-nei || Myinmu
| တောင်းပန် || taung pan || dry
|-
|-
| မြောင်းတော် || mraung-tau || Mraungtau
| အခြေအနေ || ahshein ahnei || hot and cold (inconsistent temperature)
|}
|}


== Practice ==
Dialogue:
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* Person 1: ကျွန်တော်တို့မှာ တောင်းပန်လိုတော့မယ်။ (It's usually dry in our region.)
* Person 2: အခြေအနေ မှာ ဆဲဖြစ်လား။ (Do you experience inconsistent temperature here?)


== Quiz ==
I hope you enjoyed learning some Burmese geography vocabulary with us. Don't forget to practice using these words in context to enhance your vocabulary. To improve your [[Language/Burmese|Burmese]] [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary|Vocabulary]], you can also use the [https://polyglotclub.com Polyglot Club] website. [https://polyglotclub.com/find-friends.php?search=send&d=0&f=36&offre1=23 Find native speakers] and ask them any [https://polyglotclub.com/language/burmese/question questions]!
Test your knowledge of Burmese geography with this quiz:


# What is the capital of Myanmar?
<hr>➡ If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section below.<br>➡ Feel free to edit this wiki page if you think it can be improved. 😎
# What is the largest river in Thailand?
# What is the name of the river that flows through Myanmar and Thailand?
# What is the name of the city in Myanmar known for its ancient temples?
# What is the name of the city in Myanmar known for its gold-plated pagodas?


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➡ If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section below.<br>➡ Feel free to edit this wiki page if you think it can be improved. 😎
==Videos==


===Burmese Vocabulary - Geography-Landscapes & Nature - YouTube===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTNHT5Fjs4</youtube>


==Related Lessons==
==Other Lessons==
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Days-of-the-week|Days of the week]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Family|Family]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Health|Health]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Count-to-10|Count to 10]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Food|Food]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Animals|Animals]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Express-Surprise|Express Surprise]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/How-to-Say-Hello-and-Greetings|How to Say Hello and Greetings]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/How-to-Say-Hello-and-Greetings|How to Say Hello and Greetings]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/How-to-say-Good-Bye?|How to say Good Bye?]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/How-to-say-Good-Bye?|How to say Good Bye?]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Food|Food]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Days-of-the-Week|Days of the Week]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Health|Health]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Clothes|Clothes]]
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Months-of-the-Year|Months of the Year]]
 
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Greetings|Greetings]]
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* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Count-to-10|Count to 10]]
==Sources==
* [[Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Feelings-and-Emotions|Feelings and Emotions]]
* [https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Burmese/Vocabulary/Geography Burmese Vocabulary - Geography]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_language Burmese language - Wikipedia]


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Latest revision as of 22:03, 27 March 2023

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Burmese Vocabulary - Geography

Hi Burmese learners! 😊
In this lesson, we will cover the basic geographical vocabulary in Burmese. Understanding geography is essential when it comes to traveling or simply knowing about the world around us. So let's dive into it and learn some Burmese geography vocabulary!


Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: Months of the Year & Express Surprise.

Landforms[edit | edit source]

Landforms are natural features of the earth's surface, and here are some Burmese words for some common landforms:

Burmese Pronunciation English
တောင် taung mountain
တောင်ကြီး taung gyi hill
တွေးကြီး twe gyi valley
ကျေးရွာ kyay ya wa plain
သွားလာတော် swa la taung plateau

Dialogue:

  • Person 1: ဒီတောင်ကြီးမှာ ဘယ်လောက်ရှိနေလဲ။ (Where is this hill?)
  • Person 2: ဒီတောင်ကြီး မှာ စောင့်နေလို့။ (I am standing on this hill.)

Water Forms[edit | edit source]

Just like landforms, water forms are also natural features of the earth's surface. In Burmese, here are some common water forms:

Burmese Pronunciation English
ကြောင့် kyaung lake
ကန် kan river
ခရမ်း khami stream
ဆေးကန်း se kan waterfall
ထောက်ဖက် taok hpaik estuary

Dialogue:

  • Person 1: ဒီကန်ဘယ်လောက်ပြောပြလိုက်တယ်လဲ။ (Where does this river lead to?)
  • Person 2: ဒီကန် မှာယူပြီး ထိုင်းနွေးပိုင်းပြီး သွားသွားနေပြီ။ (This river flows into the sea.)

Direction[edit | edit source]

In order to give and understand directions, it's important to know the basic directional words in Burmese:

Burmese Pronunciation English
မြောက် myaw ka north
တောင်ကြီး taung gyi east
ဆေးရှင် se shin west
တောင်လှည့် taung hlwan south

Dialogue:

  • Person 1: ယခုလောက်ကို တောင်ကြီးလိုက်တယ်။ (We need to go towards the east.)
  • Person 2: ကျန်းမာရေး အီးမေးလေးက မြောက်ကို လုပ်ရင်တောင်လိုက်ပါ။ (The immigration office is located in the north. Let's head there.)

Climate[edit | edit source]

Climate plays a huge role in geography, and here are some Burmese words about different climates:

Burmese Pronunciation English
ရေမြစ် yey mas tropical
ဆောင်းပြီး saung pri humid
တောင်းပန် taung pan dry
အခြေအနေ ahshein ahnei hot and cold (inconsistent temperature)

Dialogue:

  • Person 1: ကျွန်တော်တို့မှာ တောင်းပန်လိုတော့မယ်။ (It's usually dry in our region.)
  • Person 2: အခြေအနေ မှာ ဆဲဖြစ်လား။ (Do you experience inconsistent temperature here?)

I hope you enjoyed learning some Burmese geography vocabulary with us. Don't forget to practice using these words in context to enhance your vocabulary. To improve your Burmese Vocabulary, you can also use the Polyglot Club website. Find native speakers and ask them any questions!

➡ If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section below.
➡ Feel free to edit this wiki page if you think it can be improved. 😎

Videos[edit | edit source]

Burmese Vocabulary - Geography-Landscapes & Nature - YouTube[edit | edit source]

Other Lessons[edit | edit source]

Sources[edit | edit source]


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