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== | 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! | ||
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== 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 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 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 == | |||
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 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 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 == | |||
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 | |||
|- | |- | ||
| 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 == | |||
Climate plays a huge role in geography, and here are some Burmese words about different climates: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! 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 [[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]! | |||
<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. 😎 | |||
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Revision as of 20:00, 2 March 2023
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!
Landforms
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
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
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
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. 😎