Somewhere in Time

Myanmar has three seasons

ရာသီ | ya2-dthi2.

Rainy season

မိုးရာသီ | mo3 ya2-dthi2

starts from mid June. Rain and thunderstorms are heaviest around July and tapered off towards the end of August. A short dry month is followed by a Cooler "tourist" Season

ဆောင်းရာသီ | hsoun3 ya2-dthi2

starting from around late September till February. Then comes the romantic Summer months

နွေရာသီ | nway2 ya2-dthi2

when the old brown leaves fall away, and new flowers start to blossom in tall "Padauk" trees. This is the time of the year when male Asian Koel birds

ဥဩ | oat au3

sing their sweetest songs looking for mates to fill their dry, empty lives.

Somewhere in Time in Burmese

Three Seasons

Hot-Rainy-Cool (Sortable)
ENGLISH ↑↓	AUDIO ↑↓	COMMENT ↑↓
Hot Season	နွေရာသီ \| nway2 ya2-dthi2	--
Summer	နွေ \| nway2	short form
Beginning of Summer	နွေဦး \| nway2 u3	--
Rainy Season	မိုးရာသီ \| mo3 ya2-dthi2	--
Rainy Season	မိုး \| mo3	short form
Beginning of Monsoon	မိုးဦး \| mo3 u3	--
during Rainy Season	မိုးတွင်း \| mo3-dwin3	--
Cool Season	ဆောင်းရာသီ \| hsoun3 ya2-dthi2	--
Cool Season	ဆောင်း \| hsoun3	short form
Beginning of Cool Season	ဆောင်းဦး \| hsoun3 u3	--
during Cool Season	ဆောင်းတွင်း \| hsoun3-dwin3

Time Expressions in Burmese

အချိန် | a-chain2 - time

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Sortable)
ENGLISH ↑↓	AUDIO ↑↓	COMMENT ↑↓
day before yesterday	တမြန်နေ့ \| ta1-myan2 nay1	--
yesterday	မနေ့ \| ma1-nay1	--
yesterday	မနေ့တုန်းက \| ma1-nay1 dome3 ga1	yesterday + at that time
today	ယနေ့ \| ya1-nay1	(literary)
today	ဒီနေ့ \| de2 nay1	(colloquial) this + day
tomorrow	မနက်ဖြန် \| ma1-net-pfyan2	--
the day after tomorrow	သန်ဘက်ခါ \| dtha1-bet-kha2	--
three days after today	ဖိန်းနွှဲခါ \| pfain3-hnweare3-kha2	--

Morning to Midnight (Sortable)
ENGLISH ↑↓	AUDIO ↑↓	COMMENT ↑↓
morning	နံနက် \| nun2-net	(literary)
morning	မနက် \| ma1-net	(colloquial)
every morning	မနက်တိုင်း \| ma1-net tine3	morning + every
dawn	အရုဏ် \| ah2-yone2	(literary)
dawn	မနက် နေမထွက်ခင် \| ma1-net nay2 ma1-htwet khin2	morning before sun rises
early in the morning	မနက်စောစော \| ma1-net sau3-zau3	morning + early
8 O'clock in the morning	မနက် ၈ နာရီ \| ma1-net shit na2-yi2	morning + 8 + clock
mid-day	နေ့လည် \| nay1 leare2	day + middle
noon	မွန်းတည့်ချိန် \| moon3 teare1 jain2	(literary)
noon	နေ့လည် ၁၂ နာရီ \| nay1-leare2 hseare1 hna1 na2-yi2	(colloquial) 12 noon
afternoon	မွန်းလွဲ \| moon3 lweare3	(literary)
afternoon	နေ့လည် \| nay1 leare2	(colloquial) day + middle
evening	ညနေ \| nya1 nay2	night + sun
every evening	ညနေတိုင်း \| nya1-nay2 dine3	night + sun + every
when the sun is down	ညနေစောင်း \| nya1-nay2 zoun3	night + sun + askew
sunset time	ညနေခင်း \| nya1-nay2 ghin3	(literary)
sunset time	နေဝင်ချိန် \| nay2 win2 jain2	(colloquial) sun+ go in +time
7 O'clock in the evening	ည ၇ နာရီ \| nya1 khoon2 na1-na2-yi2	night + 7 + clock
night	ည \| nya1	--
last night	မနေ့ည \| ma1-nay1 nya1	yesterday + night
when the night falls	ညကြရင် \| nya1 kja1 yin2	night + when the time comes
every night	ညတိုင်း \| nya1 dine3	night + every
all night	တစ်ညလုံး \| ta1-nya1 lone3	one + night + suffix "all"
just before midnight	ညဉ့်ဦးယံ \| nyin1 u3 yan2	(literary)
midnight	သန်းခေါင်ယံ \| dtha1-goun2 yan2	(literary)
midnight	ညသန်းခေါင် \| nya1 dtha1-goun2	(colloquial)
wee hours after midnight	မိုးသောက်ယံ \| mo3 dthout yan2	(literary)

Days of Week
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
day	နေ့ \| nay1	--
Sunday	တနင်္ဂနွေ \| ta1-nin3-ga1-nway2	--
Monday	တနင်္လာ(နေ့) \| ta1-nin3-la2 (nay1)	(nay1) can be omitted.
Tuesday	အင်္ဂါ(နေ့) \| in2-ga2(nay1)	--
Wednesday	ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး(နေ့) \| boat-da1-hu3 (nay1)	--
Thursday	ကြာသပတေး \| kja2-dtha2-ba1-day3	--
Friday	သောကြာ \| thout-kja2	--
Saturday	စနေ \| sa1-nay2	--

Last Week, this week, next week
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
next Monday	နောက်အပတ် တနင်္လာနေ့ \| nout a-pup ta1-nin3-la2 nay1	next + week + Monday
2 weeks (fortnight) ago	အရင် ၂ ပတ်တုန်းက \| a-yin2 hna1-pup dome3 ga1	prior +2+ week+ ago
last week	ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ် \| pyi3 kheare1-deare1 a-pup	finished+been through+week
this week	ဒီအပတ် \| de2 a-pup	this + week
this weekend	ဒီအပတ် စနေ တနင်္ဂနွေ \| de2 a-pup sa1-nay2 ta1-nin3-ga1-nway2	this + week + Saturday + Sunday
next week	နောက်အပတ် \| nout a-pup	next + week
2 weeks from now	နောက်နှစ်ပတ် \| nout hna1-pup	next + 2 + week
3 weeks from now	နောက် ၃ ပတ် \| nout thone3 but	next + 3 + week

Last month, this month, next month
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
lat month	အရင်လတုန်းက \| a-yin2 la1 dome3 ga1	previous + month + at that time
this month	ဒီလ \| de2 la1	next + 2 + month
next month	နောက်လ \| nout la1	next + month
2 months from now	နောက် ၂ လ \| nout hna1-la1	next + 2 + month
3 months from now	နောက် ၃ လ \| nout thone3 la1	next + 3 + month

Last Year, this year, next year
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
last year	ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ နှစ် \| pyi3 kheare1-deare1 hnit	finished+been through+year
last year	မနှစ်တုန်းက \| ma1-hnit dome3 ga1	last yeat + at that time
this year	ဒီနှစ် \| de2 hnit	this + year
next year	နောက်နှစ် \| nout hnit	next + year
2 years from now	၂ နှစ်ကြာရင် \| hna1-hnit kja2 yin2	2 + year + "when that long"
3 years from now	၃ နှစ်ကြာရင် \| thone3 hnit kja2 yin2	3 + year + "when that long"

Forever
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
life time	ရာသက်ပန် \| ya2-thet-pan2	(literary)
life time	တစ်သက်လုံး \| ta1-thet lone3	one + life + all around
forever	ထာဝရ \| hta2-wa1-ra1	(literary)

Past
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
past	အတိတ်ကာလ \| a-tate ka2-la1	(literary)
in the past	အရင်တုန်းက \| a-yin2 dome3 ga1	(colloquial)

Present
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
present	မျက်မှောက်ကာလ \| myet-hmout ka2-la1	(literary)
present	ပစ္စုပ္ပန် \| pyit-soat-pan2	(literary)
right now	ယခု \| ya1-khu1	(literary)
right now	အခု \| a-khu1	(colloquial)
at this moment	ဒီအချိန်မှာ \| de2 a-chain2 hma2	this + time + at

Future
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
future	အနာဂတ် \| a-na2-gut	(literary)
future	နောင်ကာလ \| noun2 ka2-la1	future + period (literary)
next time	နောက်ကြရင် \| nout kja1 yin2	next + "when fall on"
later	ခဏနေ \| kha1-na1 nay2	a short while + stay
till next time (not now)	နောက်ကြမှ \| nout kja1 hma1	next + to fall+ till then

Telling the time
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
hour	နာရီ \| na2-yi2	clock
6 hours(duration)	၆ နာရီ \| chout na2-yi2	6 + clock
6 AM	မနက် ၆ နာရီ \| ma1-net chout na2-yi2	morning + 6 + clock
6 PM	ညနေ ၆ နာရီ \| nya1-nay2 chout na2-yi2	evening + 6 + clock
half past 6	၆ နာရီခွဲ \| chout na2-yi2 gweare3	6 + clock + half
6:15	၆ နာရီ ၁၅ \| chout na2-yi2 hseare1-nga3	6 + clock + 10 + 5
6:35	၆ နာရီ ၃၅ \| chout na2-yi2 thone3 zeare1-nga3	6 + clock + 3 + 10 + 5
6:45	၆ နာရီ ၄၅ \| chout na2-yi2 lay3 zeare1-nga3	6 + clock + 4 + 10 + 5
quarter to 7	၇ နာရီ မတ်တင်း \| khoon2 na1-na2-yi2 mut-tin3	7 + clock + quarter to

How long will it take?
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
It will take 6 hours.	၆ နာရီ ကြာမယ် \| chout na2-yi2 kja2 meare2	6 + clock + duration + will
It will take 10 minutes.	၁၀ မိနစ်ကြာမယ် \| hseare2 ma1-nit kja2 meare2	10 + minute + duration + will be
It will take 10 seconds.	၁၀ စက္ကန့် ကြာမယ် \| hseare2 set-kun1 kja2 meare2	10 + second + duration + will be

Fast or slow?
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
(It's) slow.	နှေးတယ် \| hnay3 deare2	slow + confirmation
(It's) fast.	မြန်တယ် \| myan2 deare2	fast + confirmation

When did that happend?
ENGLISH	AUDIO	COMMENT
Not long ago (in the form of an answer.)	သိပ်မကြာသေးဘူး \| thate ma1-kja2 thay3 bu3	very + not + long + yet + negative
Not long ago (in the form of a statement.)	ခုနတုန်းက \| khu1-na1 dome3 ga1	just now + at that time
just now	ခုလေးတင် \| khu1 lay3 din2	---
a few hours ago.	တစ်နာရီ နှစ်နာရီ လောက်တုန်းက \| ta1-na2-yi2, hna1-na2-yi2 lout dome3 ga1	1 hour + 2 hour + enough + at that time

How often? (Sortable)
ENGLISH ↑↓	AUDIO ↑↓	COMMENT ↑↓
sometimes	တစ်ခါတလေ \| ta1-kha2 ta1-lay2	(colloquial)
occasionally	ရံဖန်ရံခါ \| yan2-pfun2 yan2-kha2	(literary)
from time to time	တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ \| ta1-kha2 ta1-yan2	(literary)
often	မကြာခဏ \| ma1-kja2 kha1-na1	not + long + a short while
frequently	ခဏခဏ \| kha1-na1 kha1-na1	(colloquial)
seldom	တစ်ခါတလေမှ \| ta1-kha2 ta1-lay2 hma1	(colloquial)
never	ဘယ်တော့မျှ \| beare2 dau1 hmya1	(literary)
never	ဘယ်တော့မှ \| beare2 dau1 hma1	(colloquial)
all the time	တစ်ချိန်လုံး \| ta1-chain2 lone3	(colloquial) one + time + "all"
always	ထာဝစဉ် \| hta2-wa1-zin2	(literary)
always	အမြဲ \| a-myeare3	(colloquial)
hourly	တစ်နာရီ တစ်ကြိမ် \| ta1-na2-yi2 da1-jain2	1 + hour + 1 + frequency
daily	နေ့စဉ် \| nay1 zin2	(literary)
weekly	တစ်ပတ်တစ်ခါ \| ta1-but ta1-kha2	1 + week + 1 + time
fortnightly	၂ ပတ်တစ်ခါ \| hna1-pup ta1-kha2	2 + week + 1 + time
monthly	တစ်လတစ်ခါ \| ta1-la1 ta1-kha2	1 + month + 1 + time
yearly	တစ်နှစ်တစ်ခါ \| ta1-hnit ta1-kha2	1 + year + 1 + time
anniversary	နှစ်ပတ်လည်နေ့ \| hnit-pup-leare2 nay1	year + around + day

Next, how to use time expressions in questions and answers.