How to Say “English” in Burmese

အင်္ဂလိပ်
angga.lip/ʔɪ́ɴɡəleɪʔ/
The Burmese word for English is အင်္ဂလိပ် (angga.lip).
The word အင်္ဂလိပ် is used to refer to the English language or to anything pertaining to England. It functions as both a noun and an adjective depending on the context of your sentence.
Meaning: the English language (name)

Which one should you use?

While အင်္ဂလိပ် is the general term, you can use more specific forms to clarify the medium of communication. Use အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ when you are specifically referring to the English language as a subject of study or in its written form. Use အင်္ဂလိပ်စကား when you are referring specifically to the spoken English language.

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How does it change in a sentence?

The word အင်္ဂလိပ် can act as a noun (the English language) or an adjective (English/British). To specify the type of language being used, you can add classifiers: adding the classifier စာ (sa) makes it refer to the written language or study of English, while adding the noun စကား (sa-ga) makes it refer to the spoken language.

How do you pronounce it?

The romanization is angga.lip and the IPA is /ʔɪ́ɴɡəleɪʔ/.

Did you know?

  • Long before the modern spelling was standardized, the word appeared in the 18th-century inscriptions of King Alaungpaya as အင်ကရိတ်.

Examples in context

  • အင်္ဂလိပ် စကား ပြောတတ်သလား။
    Can you speak English?
    This sentence uses အင်္ဂလိပ် to ask if someone can speak the language.
    Tatoeba #3189952 by sithu015, translation #26170 by CK
  • အာရှ ဆိုသော အမည်သည် ရှေးဟောင်း ဂရိဘာသာစကား မှ တဆင့် လက်တင် ဘာသာ သို့ ဆင်းသက်လာပြီး ထိုမှ တဖန် အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘာသာစကား သို့ ဆင်းသက် လာခဲ့သည်။
    The name 'Asia' passed from ancient Greek into Latin, and from there into English.
    This sentence uses အင်္ဂလိပ် to describe the English language in a historical context.
    Tatoeba #3388566 by sithu015, translation #11705817 by szago
  • အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ
    English language (written)
    This phrase uses အင်္ဂလိပ် to refer to the written English language.
  • 1 more sentence on Tatoeba

Example conversation

Two friends are talking about a language class.

  1. မင်းမင်း Min Min

    ခိုင်ခိုင် အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘာသာစကား သင်နေလား။
    Khaing Khaing ing-ga-leik bar-thar-za-kar thin nay lar?
    Khaing Khaing, are you studying the English language?
  2. ခိုင်ခိုင် Khine Khine

    ဟုတ်တယ်၊ ကျွန်မ အင်္ဂလိပ် စာ သင်နေတယ်။
    Hote tal, kyun-ma ing-ga-leik sar thin nay tal.
    Yes, I am studying English.
  3. မင်းမင်း Min Min

    အင်္ဂလိပ် စကား ပြောရတာ ခက်လား။
    Ing-ga-leik za-kar pyaw ya dar khet lar?
    Is it difficult to speak English?
  4. ခိုင်ခိုင် Khine Khine

    နည်းနည်း ခက်ပေမဲ့ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖို့ ကောင်းပါတယ်။
    Nee nee khet pay mae seik win sar pho kaung par tal.
    It is a bit difficult, but it is interesting.

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