ဘယ်နှစ်

Burmese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Phonetic respellings: ဗယ်နှ', ဗယ်နှ
  • IPA(key): /bɛ̀n̥ə/, /bɛ̀n̥a̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: bhaihnac • ALA-LC: bhay‘nhac‘ • BGN/PCGN: bèhnă/bèhna. • Okell: behnă/behná

Usage notes

The reduced form /bɛ̀n̥ə/ occurs immediately before another word; the full form /bɛ̀n̥a̰/ in isolation.

Determiner

ဘယ်နှစ် • (bhaihnac)

  1. how much, how many
    အုန်းသီး ဘယ်နှစ်လုံး ယူမလဲ။
    un:si: bhaihnaclum: yuma.lai:||
    How many coconuts are you going to take?

Usage notes

Takes the same syntactic position as a numeral, namely after the noun and before the numeral classifier.

Synonyms

References
  • “ဘယ်နှစ်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
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