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Syntax
Noun phrase:| tʰwi frein tʰwi frein ni-ba ထွီး ဖြေင်း ထွီး ဖြေင်း နီဗား |
| dog
black
dog black two-CL |
| black dog two black dogs |
Verb phrase:
| am den kwei tʰi tʰwi frein ni-ba အံး ဒဲဥ် ခွေ ထီး ထွီး ဖြေင်း နီဗား |
| eat
rice
I see dog black
two-CL |
| eat
rice
I see two black
dogs. |
Prepositional phrase:
| kʰuŋ kʰala kwei tʰi tʰwi frein ni-ba kʰuŋ kʰala ခွုံး ခလ ခွေ ထီး ထွီး ဖြေင်း နီဗား ခွုံး ခလ |
| table under I see dog black two-CL table under |
| under the table I see two black dogs under the table. |
Word order:
| kwei
am den awo amwa tʃɛŋ ခွေ အံး ဒဲဥ် အွိုး အံးအွ ဆဲုင် |
| I
eat rice at
eat.drink shop |
| I eat rice at the restaurant. |
Yes/no questions:
| na (mɛn) am den ne နာ (မဲဥ်) အံး ဒဲဥ် နဲ့? |
| you (want) eat rice Q |
| Do you (want to) eat rice? |
Content questions:
| na (mɛn) am dəmaɪ နာ (မဲဥ်) အံး တမဲုင် |
| you (want) eat what? |
| What do you (want to) eat? |