How to Say “God Bless You” in Burmese

ဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ
hpara:sa.hkang kaung:hkyi:pe:pa-ce
The Burmese phrase for "God bless you" is ဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ (hpara:sa.hkang kaung:hkyi:pe:pa-ce).
ဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ is a way to say "God bless you" to someone who has sneezed. While it is a literal translation of the English phrase, it is primarily used within a Christian context in Myanmar.
Meaning: said to somebody who has sneezed (intj)

What does it mean word for word?

The part ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ means "may (he) give blessings". It is composed of kaung:hkyi: (blessing), pe: (to give) and the particle pa-ce which expresses a wish or desire.

How do you pronounce it?

hpara:sa.hkang kaung:hkyi:pe:pa-ce

Did you know?

  • While ဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ is used by Christians, the majority of Buddhists in Myanmar do not typically say anything when someone sneezes.
  • The word ဘုရား in ဘုရားသခင် originally referred to a 'royal personage' or 'king', linking the concept of divinity to earthly nobility.
  • The word သခင် used for 'Lord' also functions as a formal title for a master or owner of a house in secular contexts.

Example conversation

Hnin Hnin and Zaw Zaw are sitting in a living room.

  1. နှင်းနှင်း Hnin Hnin

    အချိုး!
    A-cho!
    Achoo!
  2. ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zaw

    ဘုရားသခင် ကောင်းချီးပေးပါစေ၊ နှင်းနှင်း။
    Phayar thakin kaung chi pay par say, Hnin Hnin.
    God bless you, Hnin Hnin.
  3. နှင်းနှင်း Hnin Hnin

    ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ် ဇော်ဇော်။
    Kyay zoo tin par tal Zaw Zaw.
    Thank you, Zaw Zaw.
  4. ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zaw

    ရပါတယ်။
    Ya par tal.
    You're welcome.

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