Positions of Adverbs in Myanmar Language

Adverbs in English

In English, we can put adverbs and adverb phrases at the front, in the middle or at the end of a clause.

1. The front position

e.g. "Suddenly he felt afraid."

Yesterday, detectives arrested a woman and a man in connection with the murder.


2. The end position:

Why do you always have to eat so fast?

3. The mid position:

Apples always taste best when you pick them straight off the tree.

Note that where there is more than one verb, the mid position means after the first auxiliary verb or after a modal verb: Ex.

The new boss has occasionally been forced to change his mind.


In Myanmar

1. Like English, an adverbial can be found at the front position Ex. ဒီနေ့ပူပါတယ်။
Today, it's hot.

တနင်္လာနေ့ က သွားပါလိမ့်မယ်။ On Monday, I will go.
In English you would say - I will go on Monday.

2. In general, adverbs preceeds verbs Ex.

ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်းလမ်းလျှောက် - Walk alowly
အလျင်အမြန်လာမည် - Come quickly


I'm really sorry. = ကျွန်မ တကယ်တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်.
Adverb comes before an adjective


She's very beautiful. = သူမသည်အလွန်လှပသောဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ In this case, English and Myanmar are alike.

This car is really expensive. ဤ ကား အလွန်စျေးကြီး

Really hot - အရမ်းပူပြင်းတဲ့
တကယ်ချစ်တယ် Really love
Very good အလွန်ကောင်းသည်

I love you = မင်းကိုချစ်တယ်။
I really love you. - မင်းကို တကယ် ချစ်တယ်။