Common Shan to Khmer phrases

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

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Looking for practical Shan to Khmer phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Shan phrase first, then the Khmer translation (Khmer) — 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 Khmer.

Tip: pick five Khmer 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. မင်္ဂလာပါ

    សួស្តី (suosdey)

  2. ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်

    អរគុណ (orkun)

  3. မနက်ခင်းဖြန့်

    សួស្តីព្រឹក (suosdey preuk)

  4. နေ့လည်ခင်းဖြန့်

    សួស្តីល្ងាច (suosdey l'ngach)

  5. ညနေခင်းဖြန့်

    សួស្តីល្ងាច (suosdey l'ngach)

  6. ညအိပ်ချိန်

    រាត្រីសួស្តី (reatrey suosdey)

  7. နောက်မှတွေ့မယ်

    ជួបគ្នាម្តងក្រោយ (choup knea mdaong krouy)

  8. သွားတော့မယ်

    លាហើយ (lea hey)

  9. သင့်နာမည်ဘာလဲ?

    ឈ្មោះរបស់អ្នកគឺអ្វី? (chhmoh robos anak keu aveiy?)

  10. ကျွန်တော်နာမည်ဂျွန်ပါ

    ឈ្មោះរបស់ខ្ញុំគឺJohn (chhmoh robos khnhom keu John)

  11. သင်ဘယ်လိုလဲ?

    អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ? (anak sok sabay te?)

  12. သင့်ကိုတွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ်

    រីករាយដែលបានជួបអ្នក (reakreay del ban choup anak)

Useful phrases for travellers

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

  1. သင်အင်္ဂလိပ်စကားပြောလား?

    តើអ្នកនិយាយភាសាអង់គ្លេសទេ? (tae anak niyay phea sa angkles te?)

  2. ကျွန်တော်ဟင်းဒီကိုမပြောနိုင်ပါဘူး။

    ខ្ញុំមិននិយាយភាសាហិណ្ឌីបានល្អទេ (khnhom min niyay phea sa hindi ban l'a te)

  3. ကျွန်တော်မနားလည်ပါ။

    ខ្ញុំមិនយល់ទេ (khnhom min yol te)

  4. ကျေးဇူးပြု၍အနှေးအမြန်ပြောပါ။

    សូមនិយាយយឺតៗ (soam niyay yeut yeut)

  5. ဒါကိုနောက်ထပ်ပြောပေးနိုင်မလား?

    តើអ្នកអាចនិយាយវាឡើងវិញទេ? (tae anak ach niyay vea leung vin te?)

  6. အိမ်သာဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    បន្ទប់ទឹកនៅឯណា? (bontob teuk nov ae na?)

  7. မြို့လယ်ကိုဘယ်လိုသွားရမလဲ?

    ខ្ញុំត្រូវធ្វើដំណើរទៅមជ្ឈមណ្ឌលទីក្រុងយ៉ាងដូចម្តេច? (khnhom trov tver damnaer tov m'cheamondol ti krong yang doch m'teah?)

  8. ဘယ်ဘက်သွားပါ။

    បង្វិលឆ្វេង (bongvel chhveng)

  9. ညာဘက်သွားပါ။

    បង្វិលស្តាំ (bongvel sdarm)

  10. တိုက်ရိုက်သွားပါ။

    ទៅត្រង់ (tov trong)

  11. ခရီးခကြေးဘယ်လောက်လဲ?

    តើតម្លៃសំបុត្រនេះប៉ុន្មាន? (tae tamlai sambot nih ponman?)

  12. တစ်ခုလက်မှတ်ပေးပါ။

    សំបុត្រមួយមួយ (sambot muoy muoy)

  13. ဒီနေရာကအလွန်ဝေးလား?

    វាមានចម្ងាយពីទីនេះទេ? (vea mean chamngai pi ti nih te?)

  14. ကျွန်တော်လမ်းလွဲနေတယ်။

    ខ្ញុំខកខាន (khnhom khak khan)

  15. SIM ကတ်ဘယ်မှာဝယ်ရမလဲ?

    ខ្ញុំអាចទិញកាតស៊ីអិមបានឯណា? (khnhom ach t'nh kat sim ban ae na?)

Everyday conversation

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

  1. ဟုတ်ကဲ့

    បាទ (bat)

  2. မဟုတ်ဘူး

    ទេ (te)

  3. ဖြစ်နိုင်ပါတယ်

    ប្រហែលជា (brahael chea)

  4. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောတူပါတယ်

    ខ្ញុំយល់ព្រម (khnom yol prom)

  5. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောမတူပါဘူး

    ខ្ញុំមិនយល់ព្រម (khnom min yol prom)

  6. ဒါက အထူးသင့်လျော်ပါတယ်

    វាហាក់ដូចជាល្អ (ve hak doch chea la)

  7. သင်ထင်သလဲ?

    អ្នកគិតយ៉ាងដូចម្តេច? (anak kit yeang doch mdaech)

  8. သင်က ကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါသလား?

    អ្នកអាចជួយខ្ញុំបានទេ? (anak ach choy khnom ban te)

  9. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ကူညီမှုလိုပါတယ်

    ខ្ញុំត្រូវការជំនួយ (khnom trov kar jumnuoy)

  10. အချိန်ငယ်စောင့်ပါ

    រង់ចាំមួយមិនតិច (rong cham muoy min tech)

  11. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်

    ខ្ញុំសូមអភ័យទោស (khnom soum aphay tos)

  12. ပြဿနာမရှိပါ

    មិនមានបញ្ហា (min mean banha)

  13. ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်

    សូមអបអរសាទរ (soum aborasa tor)

  14. မွေးနေ့ပျော်ပါစေ

    សូមអបអរសាទរថ្ងៃកំណើត (soum aborasa tor thngai kumnert)

  15. ခရီးစဉ်အောင်မြင်ပါစေ

    សូមឲ្យមានដំណើរទៅដល់សុវត្ថិភាព (soum aoy mean domnaer tov dol sovathipheap)

Directions and getting around

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

  1. လမ်းပိုင်းရထားဘူတာဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    ស្ថានីយ៍រថភ្លើងនៅឯណា? (sthaney rathphleung nov ae na?)

  2. ဘတ်စ်ကားရပ်နားဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    ចំនុចរថយន្តនៅឯណា? (chamnuoch rathyon nov ae na?)

  3. ဘယ်ဘက်ကနေပါလဲ?

    វាជាផ្ទាំងណា? (vea chea phteang na?)

  4. ဘယ်အချိန်မှာထွက်သွားလဲ?

    វាអាចចាកចេញម៉ោងប៉ុនណា? (vea ach chak chenh maong pon na?)

  5. ဒါမှန်လမ်းလား?

    តើនេះជាផ្លូវត្រឹមត្រូវទេ? (tae nih chea phlov treum trov te?)

  6. ဒီမှာနီးပါတယ်

    វាខិតខំនៅទីនេះ។ (vea khit khom nov ti nih.)

  7. ဒီမှာဝေးပါတယ်

    វាអស់ពីទីនេះ។ (vea ahs pi ti nih.)

  8. မြေပုံမှာပြပါ

    តើអ្នកអាចបង្ហាញខ្ញុំលើផែនទីបានទេ? (tae anak ach bonghean khnhom leu phentti ban te?)

  9. ဒီမှာရပ်ပါ

    សូមឈប់នៅទីនេះ។ (soam chhob nov ti nih.)

  10. ဘယ်လောက်ကြာလဲ?

    វាត្រូវការពេលវេលាអ្នកដំណើរកំសាន្តប៉ុនណា? (vea trov kar pel vealea anak domnaer kamsant pon na?)

Shopping and dining

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

  1. ဤသည်ဘယ်လောက်လဲ?

    តើនេះមានតម្លៃប៉ុន្មាន? (tae nih mean tamlai ponman?)

  2. ဒါလွန်အထက်လျှော့ပါသည်။

    នោះមានតម្លៃខ្លាំងពេក (noh mean tamlai khlang pek)

  3. သင့်မှာသက်သာတဲ့အရာရှိလား?

    តើអ្នកមានអ្វីដែលថោកជាងនេះទេ? (tae anak mean aveiy del thok cheang nih te?)

  4. ကတ်ဖြင့်ပေးနိုင်မလား?

    តើខ្ញុំអាចបង់ប្រាក់ដោយកាតបានទេ? (tae khnhom ach bang brak daoy kat ban te?)

  5. နှစ်ဦးအတွက်စားပွဲတစ်ခုလိုချင်ပါတယ်။

    ខ្ញុំចង់បានតុសម្រាប់ពីរនាក់ (khnhom jong ban to samrab pir nak)

  6. ဘီလ်ပေးပါ။

    សូមអញ្ជើញវិក័យប័ត្រ (som anjearng vikeybat)

  7. ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပါလား?

    តើសេវាកម្មត្រូវបានរាប់បញ្ចូលទេ? (tae sevakamm trov ban rorp banhchol te?)

  8. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မဟာဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်စားသူပါ။

    ខ្ញុំជាមនុស្សមិនបរិច្ឆេទ (khnhom chea mnus min borichhet)

  9. ထ spicy နေ့လည်စားမယ်။

    សូមកុំមានម្ហូបមុជម្ទេស (som kom mean mhoap muoj mtes)

  10. ဒီဟာအရသာရှိပါတယ်။

    នេះឆ្ងាញ់ណាស់ (nih chhnang nas)

  11. မီနူးပေးပါလား?

    តើខ្ញុំអាចទទួលម៉ឺនុយបានទេ? (tae khnhom ach totuol menu ban te?)

  12. ရေတစ်ခွက်ပေးပါ။

    សូមកែវទឹកមួយ (som kaev tuk muoy)

Emergencies and health

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

  1. တပ်ဖွဲ့ကိုခေါ်ပါ

    ទូរស័ព្ទទៅប៉ូលីស (toursapht tov polis)

  2. အထူးကုသရေးကားကိုခေါ်ပါ

    ទូរស័ព្ទទៅគ្រោះថ្នាក់ (toursapht tov kruoh thnak)

  3. ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦးလိုအပ်ပါတယ်

    ខ្ញុំត្រូវការគ្រូពេទ្យ (khnhom trov ka kru peth)

  4. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မရောဂါရှိတယ်

    ខ្ញុំមានអារម្មណ៍ឈឺ (khnhom mean aramnh cheu)

  5. ငါ့ကိုငှက်သီးအပက်ရှိတယ်

    ខ្ញុំមានអាល្លឺជាមួយដូង (khnhom mean alleuj chamoy dong)

  6. အနီးဆုံးဆေးရုံဘယ်မှာလဲ

    មន្ទីរពេទ្យនៅឯណា? (montir peth neak ae na)

  7. ဒီမှာနာကျင်တယ်

    វាឈឺនៅទីនេះ (vea cheu nov ti nih)

  8. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မပတ်စဘုတ်ပျောက်သွားတယ်

    ខ្ញុំបានបាត់ព.passport (khnhom ban bat passport)

  9. သင့်ရဲ့ဟိုတယ်ကိုခေါ်ပေးနိုင်မလား

    តើអ្នកអាចទូរស័ព្ទទៅហូទែលរបស់ខ្ញុំបានទេ? (tae anak ach toursapht tov hotel robos khnhom ban te)

  10. အကူအညီပေးပါ!

    ជួយផង! (juoy phang)

Work and business

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

  1. မင်္ဂလာပါ။

    សូមស្វាគមន៍ (soum svakum)

  2. အစည်းအဝေးချိန်းဆိုကြပါစို့။

    អនុញ្ញាតឱ្យយើងកំណត់ពេលជួបគ្នា (anuhnyat aoy yeung kumnat pel choup knea)

  3. သင့်အတွက် ဘယ်အချိန်က အဆင်ပြေပါသလဲ။

    ម៉ោងណាដែលសមស្របសម្រាប់អ្នក? (maong na del somrab samrap anak)

  4. ဒီနေ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ ပို့မယ်။

    ខ្ញុំនឹងផ្ញើរបាយការណ៍នៅថ្ងៃនេះ (khnhom neng phnea baykar na thngai nih)

  5. မနက်ဖြန် စကားပြောလို့ရမလား။

    តើយើងអាចនិយាយគ្នានៅថ្ងៃស្អែកទេ? (tae yeung ach niyeay knea na thngai saek te)

  6. ဖိုင်ကို အတူတင်ထားပါတယ်။

    សូមស្វាគមន៍ឯកសារដែលភ្ជាប់ (soum svakum ekasar del pchab)

  7. သင့်အချိန်အတွက် ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်။

    សូមអរគុណសម្រាប់ពេលវេលារបស់អ្នក (soum orkoun samrab pel vele robos anak)

  8. သင်နှင့် အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာကို စောင့်မျှော်နေပါတယ်။

    ខ្ញុំរំពឹងថានឹងធ្វើការជាមួយអ្នក (khnhom rompueng tha neng twerkar cheamuoy anak)

  9. အချက်นั้นကို ရှင်းပြပေးနိုင်မလား။

    តើអ្នកអាចបញ្ជាក់ចំណុចនោះបានទេ? (tae anak ach banhcheak chamnuch noh ban te)

  10. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ပြန်လာပါမယ်။

    អនុញ្ញាតឱ្យខ្ញុំត្រឡប់មកកាន់អ្នក (anuhnyat aoy khnhom tralob mok kan anak)

  11. အဆုံးသတ်ရက်က သောကြာနေ့ပါ။

    កាលកំណត់គឺថ្ងៃសុក្រ (kal kumnat ke thngai sokra)

Time, days and numbers

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

  1. နာရီဘယ်နှစ်လောက်လဲ?

    ម៉ោងប៉ុន្មាន? (maong ponman?)

  2. နာရီသုံးလောက်ဖြစ်တယ်

    ម៉ោងបីហើយ។ (maong bey hey.)

  3. ဒီနေ့

    ថ្ងៃនេះ (thngai nih)

  4. မနက်ဖြန်

    ថ្ងៃស្អែក (thngai saek)

  5. မနေ့က

    ម្សិលមិញ (msil minh)

  6. တနင်္လာ

    ថ្ងៃចន្ទ (thngai chan)

  7. တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့

    ថ្ងៃអង្គារ (thngai angkar)

  8. ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး

    ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍ (thngai prohasbat)

  9. တစ်

    មួយ (muy)

  10. နှစ်

    ពីរ (pir)

  11. သုံး

    បី (bey)

  12. ဆယ်

    ដប់ (dob)

  13. ရာ

    មួយរយ (muy roy)

  14. ခွဲ

    កន្លះ (kanlah)

  15. ပို

    ច្រើន (chraen)