Everyday Spoken Burmese

All လုံး | lone3

The word အားလုံး | ah3-lone3 means "all", "everything". The second syllable of this word လုံး | lone3 can be used as a suffix particle to mean "entire" or "one whole" place, office, school, village, town, city, country, etc..

AUDIO	Romanization	English
တစ်မြို့လုံး	ta1-myo1 lone3	the whole town (one + town + all)
တစ်ရွာလုံး	ta1-ywa2 lone3	the whole village (one + village + all)

The word can also be applied to time duration in a similar way to mean "all" day, week, month, year, etc..

AUDIO	Romanization	English
တစ်မနက်လုံး	ta1-ma1-net lone3	the whole morning (one + morning + all)
တစ်ညလုံး မိုးရွာနေတယ်	ta1-nya1 lone3 mo3-ywa2 nay2 deare2	It's been raining all night.

It can be used with numbers and measure words (numerical classifiers).

AUDIO	Romanization	English
ကား ၆-စီးလုံး	ka3 chout si3 lone3	all six cars. (cars + six + numerical classifier + all)
သား ၃-ယောက်လုံး	tha3 thone3 yout lone3	all three sons. (sons + three + numerical classifier + all)

A slight variation is the word စလုံး | sa1-lone3 with the same meaning.

AUDIO	Romanization	English
၅-ယောက် စလုံး	nga3 yout sa1-lone3	All five people. (five + numerical classifier + all)
၅-ယောက် စလုံးခေါ်ခဲ့	nga3 yout sa1-lone3 khau2 kheare1	Be sure to bring all five people.

Earlier time တုန်းက | dome3-ga1

This is a time expression referring to the earlier time. It can be used in the question as well as in the answer.

AUDIO	Romanization	English
ဘယ်တုန်းကလဲ	beare2 dome3-ga1 leare3	When was that?
ဘယ်တုန်းကလာသွားလဲ	beare2 dome3-ga1 la2 thwa3 leare3	When (did he) come (and left)?
မနက် (၁၀)နာရီလောက်တုန်းက	ma1-net hseare2 na2-yi2 lout dome3-ga1	It was Around 10 in the morning. na2-yi2 = clock.
ဘယ်တုန်းကရောက်နေတာလဲ	beare2 dome3-ga1 yout nay2 da2 leare3	Since when did (you) come? yout = arrive nay2 = suffix: stay or remain in the place. da2 converts verb to noun clause: "it's the case that".

Since that time ကတည်းက | ga1-deare3-ga1

Although the word တုန်းက | dome3-ga1 can be used to ask "when" question, use this word to answer "since" the earlier time till now. It stresses the fact that the stretch of waiting time, etc. is quite long.

AUDIO	Romanization	English
မနက် (၁၀)နာရီကတည်းက	ma1-net hseare2 na2 yi2 ga1-deare3-ga1	Since 10 in the morning.

If the person asking the question has some idea that the time is quite long, use this word.

AUDIO	Romanization	English
ဘယ်ကတည်းကရောက်နေတာလဲ	beare2 ga1-deare3-ga1 yout nay2 da2 leare3	Since when have you been here?