Common Khmer to Shan phrases

100 practical Khmer to Shan phrases for travel, study, work, and daily conversation.

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Looking for practical Khmer to Shan phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Khmer phrase first, then the Shan translation (Shan) — so you can scan quickly before a trip, class, or video call.

The phrases are grouped into eight topics: greetings and pleasantries, useful phrases for travellers, everyday conversation, directions and getting around, shopping and dining, emergencies and health, work and business, and time, days and numbers. Use the table of contents to jump straight to greetings, directions, dining, emergencies, or numbers. You do not need perfect grammar to start — short, clear sentences often work better than silence when you are learning Shan.

Tip: pick five Shan phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.

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Greetings and pleasantries

Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.

  1. សួស្តី

    မင်္ဂလာပါ (mingalar par)

  2. អរគុណ

    ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ် (kyeizu tin par tal)

  3. សួស្តីព្រឹក

    မနက်ခင်းဖြန့် (ma net khin phyan)

  4. សួស្តីល្ងាច

    နေ့လည်ခင်းဖြန့် (nei lyae khin phyan)

  5. សួស្តីល្ងាច

    ညနေခင်းဖြန့် (nya nae khin phyan)

  6. រាត្រីសួស្តី

    ညအိပ်ချိန် (nya eit chain)

  7. ជួបគ្នាម្តងក្រោយ

    နောက်မှတွေ့မယ် (nauk hma twei mae)

  8. លាហើយ

    သွားတော့မယ် (thwa dor mae)

  9. ឈ្មោះរបស់អ្នកគឺអ្វី?

    သင့်နာမည်ဘာလဲ? (thing na mei ba leh)

  10. ឈ្មោះរបស់ខ្ញុំគឺJohn

    ကျွန်တော်နာမည်ဂျွန်ပါ (kyaun taw na mei John par)

  11. អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ?

    သင်ဘယ်လိုလဲ? (thing beh lo leh)

  12. រីករាយដែលបានជួបអ្នក

    သင့်ကိုတွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ် (thing ko twei ya ta wan tha par tal)

Useful phrases for travellers

Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.

  1. តើអ្នកនិយាយភាសាអង់គ្លេសទេ?

    သင်အင်္ဂလိပ်စကားပြောလား? (thing angalait sa ka pyaw lar?)

  2. ខ្ញុំមិននិយាយភាសាហិណ្ឌីបានល្អទេ

    ကျွန်တော်ဟင်းဒီကိုမပြောနိုင်ပါဘူး။ (kyaung taw Hindi ko ma pyaw nain par bu.)

  3. ខ្ញុំមិនយល់ទេ

    ကျွန်တော်မနားလည်ပါ။ (kyaung taw ma nar hlei par.)

  4. សូមនិយាយយឺតៗ

    ကျေးဇူးပြု၍အနှေးအမြန်ပြောပါ။ (kyei zu pyu ywa a hnei a myan pyaw par.)

  5. តើអ្នកអាចនិយាយវាឡើងវិញទេ?

    ဒါကိုနောက်ထပ်ပြောပေးနိုင်မလား? (da ko nauk htaut pyaw pay nain ma lar?)

  6. បន្ទប់ទឹកនៅឯណា?

    အိမ်သာဘယ်မှာလဲ? (ain tha beh hma leh?)

  7. ខ្ញុំត្រូវធ្វើដំណើរទៅមជ្ឈមណ្ឌលទីក្រុងយ៉ាងដូចម្តេច?

    မြို့လယ်ကိုဘယ်လိုသွားရမလဲ? (myo leh ko beh lo thwa ya ma leh?)

  8. បង្វិលឆ្វេង

    ဘယ်ဘက်သွားပါ။ (beh bhak thwa par.)

  9. បង្វិលស្តាំ

    ညာဘက်သွားပါ။ (nya bhak thwa par.)

  10. ទៅត្រង់

    တိုက်ရိုက်သွားပါ။ (taik yike thwa par.)

  11. តើតម្លៃសំបុត្រនេះប៉ុន្មាន?

    ခရီးခကြေးဘယ်လောက်လဲ? (ka yei kha kyei beh laut leh?)

  12. សំបុត្រមួយមួយ

    တစ်ခုလက်မှတ်ပေးပါ။ (ta khu let hmat pay par.)

  13. វាមានចម្ងាយពីទីនេះទេ?

    ဒီနေရာကအလွန်ဝေးလား? (di nay ya ka a lun wei lar?)

  14. ខ្ញុំខកខាន

    ကျွန်တော်လမ်းလွဲနေတယ်။ (kyaung taw lan lwe nay tai.)

  15. ខ្ញុំអាចទិញកាតស៊ីអិមបានឯណា?

    SIM ကတ်ဘယ်မှာဝယ်ရမလဲ? (SIM kat beh hma weh ya ma leh?)

Everyday conversation

Small talk, feelings, opinions, and common chat phrases for daily life.

  1. បាទ

    ဟုတ်ကဲ့ (hote ke)

  2. ទេ

    မဟုတ်ဘူး (ma hote bu)

  3. ប្រហែលជា

    ဖြစ်နိုင်ပါတယ် (phyit nain par tal)

  4. ខ្ញុំយល់ព្រម

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောတူပါတယ် (kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw tu par tal)

  5. ខ្ញុំមិនយល់ព្រម

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောမတူပါဘူး (kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw ma tu par bu)

  6. វាហាក់ដូចជាល្អ

    ဒါက အထူးသင့်လျော်ပါတယ် (da ka a htu thin lya par tal)

  7. អ្នកគិតយ៉ាងដូចម្តេច?

    သင်ထင်သလဲ? (thin htin tha leh)

  8. អ្នកអាចជួយខ្ញុំបានទេ?

    သင်က ကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါသလား? (thin ka ku nyi pay nain par tha lar)

  9. ខ្ញុំត្រូវការជំនួយ

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ကူညီမှုလိုပါတယ် (kyaung taw/kyaung ma ku nyi hmu lo par tal)

  10. រង់ចាំមួយមិនតិច

    အချိန်ငယ်စောင့်ပါ (a chain nge saung par)

  11. ខ្ញុំសូមអភ័យទោស

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (kyaung taw/kyaung ma taung pan par tal)

  12. មិនមានបញ្ហា

    ပြဿနာမရှိပါ (pyit tha na ma shi par)

  13. សូមអបអរសាទរ

    ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ် (gun yu par tal)

  14. សូមអបអរសាទរថ្ងៃកំណើត

    မွေးနေ့ပျော်ပါစေ (mwei nay pyaw par say)

  15. សូមឲ្យមានដំណើរទៅដល់សុវត្ថិភាព

    ခရီးစဉ်အောင်မြင်ပါစေ (ka yi zin aung myin par say)

Directions and getting around

Asking where something is, left and right, distances, and finding your way.

  1. ស្ថានីយ៍រថភ្លើងនៅឯណា?

    လမ်းပိုင်းရထားဘူတာဘယ်မှာလဲ? (lamhpain yatha buuta behmha le?)

  2. ចំនុចរថយន្តនៅឯណា?

    ဘတ်စ်ကားရပ်နားဘယ်မှာလဲ? (batska yatna behmha le?)

  3. វាជាផ្ទាំងណា?

    ဘယ်ဘက်ကနေပါလဲ? (behbehkane par le?)

  4. វាអាចចាកចេញម៉ោងប៉ុនណា?

    ဘယ်အချိန်မှာထွက်သွားလဲ? (beh achainhma htwe thwa le?)

  5. តើនេះជាផ្លូវត្រឹមត្រូវទេ?

    ဒါမှန်လမ်းလား? (da hman lam la?)

  6. វាខិតខំនៅទីនេះ។

    ဒီမှာနီးပါတယ် (di hma ni par de)

  7. វាអស់ពីទីនេះ។

    ဒီမှာဝေးပါတယ် (di hma wei par de)

  8. តើអ្នកអាចបង្ហាញខ្ញុំលើផែនទីបានទេ?

    မြေပုံမှာပြပါ (myei pone hma pya ba)

  9. សូមឈប់នៅទីនេះ។

    ဒီမှာရပ်ပါ (di hma yat ba)

  10. វាត្រូវការពេលវេលាអ្នកដំណើរកំសាន្តប៉ុនណា?

    ဘယ်လောက်ကြာလဲ? (beh laut kya le?)

Shopping and dining

Ordering food, asking prices, paying the bill, and shopping at markets or stores.

  1. តើនេះមានតម្លៃប៉ុន្មាន?

    ဤသည်ဘယ်လောက်လဲ? (i hna bɛ́ lout le?)

  2. នោះមានតម្លៃខ្លាំងពេក

    ဒါလွန်အထက်လျှော့ပါသည်။ (da lwan ahtek lho pa de.)

  3. តើអ្នកមានអ្វីដែលថោកជាងនេះទេ?

    သင့်မှာသက်သာတဲ့အရာရှိလား? (thin hma that tha de a ya shi la?)

  4. តើខ្ញុំអាចបង់ប្រាក់ដោយកាតបានទេ?

    ကတ်ဖြင့်ပေးနိုင်မလား? (kat phyin pei naing ma la?)

  5. ខ្ញុំចង់បានតុសម្រាប់ពីរនាក់

    နှစ်ဦးအတွက်စားပွဲတစ်ခုလိုချင်ပါတယ်။ (hnit u a twet sa pwe ta khu lo chin pa de.)

  6. សូមអញ្ជើញវិក័យប័ត្រ

    ဘီလ်ပေးပါ။ (bil pei pa.)

  7. តើសេវាកម្មត្រូវបានរាប់បញ្ចូលទេ?

    ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပါလား? (wan hsaung hmu pa la?)

  8. ខ្ញុំជាមនុស្សមិនបរិច្ឆេទ

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မဟာဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်စားသူပါ။ (kyaung taw/kyaung ma ha hnin thi hnin ywat sa thu pa.)

  9. សូមកុំមានម្ហូបមុជម្ទេស

    ထ spicy နေ့လည်စားမယ်။ (hta spicy nei lwei sa ma.)

  10. នេះឆ្ងាញ់ណាស់

    ဒီဟာအရသာရှိပါတယ်။ (di ha a ya tha shi pa de.)

  11. តើខ្ញុំអាចទទួលម៉ឺនុយបានទេ?

    မီနူးပေးပါလား? (mi nu pei pa la?)

  12. សូមកែវទឹកមួយ

    ရေတစ်ခွက်ပေးပါ။ (ye ta khwet pei pa.)

Emergencies and health

Help, police, doctor, pharmacy, and urgent situations when you need assistance fast.

  1. ទូរស័ព្ទទៅប៉ូលីស

    တပ်ဖွဲ့ကိုခေါ်ပါ (tap hwei ko khaw pa)

  2. ទូរស័ព្ទទៅគ្រោះថ្នាក់

    အထူးကုသရေးကားကိုခေါ်ပါ (a htu ku tha yei kar ko khaw pa)

  3. ខ្ញុំត្រូវការគ្រូពេទ្យ

    ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦးလိုအပ်ပါတယ် (sa ya wun ta u lo at pa de)

  4. ខ្ញុំមានអារម្មណ៍ឈឺ

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မရောဂါရှိတယ် (kyaung taw/kyaung ma yaung ga shi de)

  5. ខ្ញុំមានអាល្លឺជាមួយដូង

    ငါ့ကိုငှက်သီးအပက်ရှိတယ် (nga ko ngat thee a pet shi de)

  6. មន្ទីរពេទ្យនៅឯណា?

    အနီးဆုံးဆေးရုံဘယ်မှာလဲ (a nei saung say yone beh hma le)

  7. វាឈឺនៅទីនេះ

    ဒီမှာနာကျင်တယ် (di hma na kyin de)

  8. ខ្ញុំបានបាត់ព.passport

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မပတ်စဘုတ်ပျောက်သွားတယ် (kyaung taw/kyaung ma pat sa boat pyauk thwa de)

  9. តើអ្នកអាចទូរស័ព្ទទៅហូទែលរបស់ខ្ញុំបានទេ?

    သင့်ရဲ့ဟိုတယ်ကိုခေါ်ပေးနိုင်မလား (thing ye ho tel ko khaw pay nain ma la)

  10. ជួយផង!

    အကူအညီပေးပါ! (a ku a nyi pay pa!)

Work and business

Meetings, email tone, schedules, and professional phrases for the workplace.

  1. សូមស្វាគមន៍

    မင်္ဂလာပါ။ (soum svakum)

  2. អនុញ្ញាតឱ្យយើងកំណត់ពេលជួបគ្នា

    အစည်းအဝေးချိန်းဆိုကြပါစို့။ (anuhnyat aoy yeung kumnat pel choup knea)

  3. ម៉ោងណាដែលសមស្របសម្រាប់អ្នក?

    သင့်အတွက် ဘယ်အချိန်က အဆင်ပြေပါသလဲ။ (maong na del somrab samrap anak)

  4. ខ្ញុំនឹងផ្ញើរបាយការណ៍នៅថ្ងៃនេះ

    ဒီနေ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ ပို့မယ်။ (khnhom neng phnea baykar na thngai nih)

  5. តើយើងអាចនិយាយគ្នានៅថ្ងៃស្អែកទេ?

    မနက်ဖြန် စကားပြောလို့ရမလား။ (tae yeung ach niyeay knea na thngai saek te)

  6. សូមស្វាគមន៍ឯកសារដែលភ្ជាប់

    ဖိုင်ကို အတူတင်ထားပါတယ်။ (soum svakum ekasar del pchab)

  7. សូមអរគុណសម្រាប់ពេលវេលារបស់អ្នក

    သင့်အချိန်အတွက် ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်။ (soum orkoun samrab pel vele robos anak)

  8. ខ្ញុំរំពឹងថានឹងធ្វើការជាមួយអ្នក

    သင်နှင့် အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာကို စောင့်မျှော်နေပါတယ်။ (khnhom rompueng tha neng twerkar cheamuoy anak)

  9. តើអ្នកអាចបញ្ជាក់ចំណុចនោះបានទេ?

    အချက်นั้นကို ရှင်းပြပေးနိုင်မလား။ (tae anak ach banhcheak chamnuch noh ban te)

  10. អនុញ្ញាតឱ្យខ្ញុំត្រឡប់មកកាន់អ្នក

    ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ပြန်လာပါမယ်။ (anuhnyat aoy khnhom tralob mok kan anak)

  11. កាលកំណត់គឺថ្ងៃសុក្រ

    အဆုံးသတ်ရက်က သောကြာနေ့ပါ။ (kal kumnat ke thngai sokra)

Time, days and numbers

Clock times, days of the week, months, quantities, and counting for appointments and plans.

  1. ម៉ោងប៉ុន្មាន?

    နာရီဘယ်နှစ်လောက်လဲ? (na-yi beh-nhit-lauk leh?)

  2. ម៉ោងបីហើយ។

    နာရီသုံးလောက်ဖြစ်တယ် (na-yi thone-lauk pyit-te)

  3. ថ្ងៃនេះ

    ဒီနေ့ (di-nei)

  4. ថ្ងៃស្អែក

    မနက်ဖြန် (ma-net-pyan)

  5. ម្សិលមិញ

    မနေ့က (ma-nei-ka)

  6. ថ្ងៃចន្ទ

    တနင်္လာ (ta-nin-la)

  7. ថ្ងៃអង្គារ

    တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ (ta-nin-ga-nwe-nei)

  8. ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍

    ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး (bu-dha-hu)

  9. មួយ

    တစ် (taik)

  10. ពីរ

    နှစ် (hnit)

  11. បី

    သုံး (thone)

  12. ដប់

    ဆယ် (hse)

  13. មួយរយ

    ရာ (ya)

  14. កន្លះ

    ခွဲ (khwe)

  15. ច្រើន

    ပို (po)