မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ
mway nay hmar pyaw shwin par say
To say "happy birthday" in Burmese, use မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ (mway nay hmar pyaw shwin par say).
မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ is a standard and polite way to offer good wishes for someone's birthday.
Meaning: good wishes for a birthday (intj)
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase is composed of မွေးနေ့ (birthday), မှာ (in/at) and ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ (may [you] be happy).
How does it change in a sentence?
The suffix ပါစေ (par say) is used to express a wish or a prayer, functioning much like "may you…" in English.
How do you pronounce it?
mway nay hmar pyaw shwin par say
Did you know?
- Many Burmese people identify their birthday by the day of the week they were born, which determines their 'animal sign' and is often used alongside the date.
- In Myanmar, traditional birthday celebrations often center on performing acts of merit, such as donating food to monks or releasing fish and birds, rather than just receiving gifts.
- A common alternative way to wish someone well is to focus on 'longevity' rather than 'happiness', using terms related to 'long life' in formal settings.
Examples in context
- မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေလို့ ဆုတောင်းပေးပါတယ်။mway nay hmar pyaw shwin bar say lo su taung pay bar de.I wish you a happy birthday.
- သူ့ကို မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေလို့ ပြောပေးပါ။thu ko mway nay hmar pyaw shwin bar say lo pyaw pay bar.Please tell him happy birthday.
Example conversation
A friend wishes him a happy birthday at a cafe.
- နှင်းနှင်း Hnin Hninဇော်ဇော်၊ မွေးနေ့မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ။Zaw Zaw, mway nay hmar pyaw shwin bar say.Zaw Zaw, happy birthday.
- ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zawကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ် နှင်းနှင်း။kyay zu tin bar de Hnin Hnin.Thank you, Hnin Hnin.
- နှင်းနှင်း Hnin Hninဒီနေ့ အစီအစဉ် ရှိလား။de nay a si a sin shi lar.Do you have plans for today?
- ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zawဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ သူငယ်ချင်းတွေနဲ့ တွေ့မယ်။houk kae, thu ngyal chin dway nae twae mal.Yes, I am meeting some friends.
