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Common Shan to Sinhala phrases

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

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

Tip: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Sinhala-speaking trip in a few weeks.

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Greetings and pleasantries

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

  1. မင်္ဂလာပါ

    හෙලෝ (Hello)

  2. ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်

    ස්තුතියි (sthuthiyi)

  3. မနက်ခင်းဖြန့်

    සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udæsanak)

  4. နေ့လည်ခင်းဖြန့်

    සුභ පස්වරුක් (subha paswaruk)

  5. ညနေခင်းဖြန့်

    සුභ සවසක් (subha sawasak)

  6. ညအိပ်ချိန်

    සුභ රාත්‍රියක් (subha rathriyak)

  7. နောက်မှတွေ့မယ်

    පසුව හමුවෙමු (pasuwa hamuwemu)

  8. သွားတော့မယ်

    ගුඩ් බයි (Goodbye)

  9. သင့်နာမည်ဘာလဲ?

    ඔබගේ නම කුමක්ද? (obagē nama kumakda)

  10. ကျွန်တော်နာမည်ဂျွန်ပါ

    මගේ නම ජෝන් (mage nama John)

  11. သင်ဘယ်လိုလဲ?

    ඔබට කොහොමද? (obata kohomada)

  12. သင့်ကိုတွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ်

    ඔබට හමුවී සතුටුයි (obata hamuwi sathutuyi)

Useful phrases for travellers

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

  1. သင်အင်္ဂလိပ်စကားပြောလား?

    ඔබට ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා කරන්න පුළුවන්ද? (Obata ingreesi katha karanna puluwanda?)

  2. ကျွန်တော်ဟင်းဒီကိုမပြောနိုင်ပါဘူး။

    මට හින්දි හොඳින් කතා කරන්න බැහැ (Mata hindi hondin katha karanna beha)

  3. ကျွန်တော်မနားလည်ပါ။

    මට තේරෙන්නේ නැහැ (Mata therenne na)

  4. ကျေးဇူးပြု၍အနှေးအမြန်ပြောပါ။

    කරුණාකර මන්ද ගතව කතා කරන්න (Karunakar mandagathawa katha karanna)

  5. ဒါကိုနောက်ထပ်ပြောပေးနိုင်မလား?

    ඔබ එය නැවත කියන්න පුළුවන්ද? (Oba eya nawatha kiyanne puluwanda?)

  6. အိမ်သာဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    සැලැස්ම කුඩා කාමරය කොහේද? (Sælæsmakuda kamaraya kohēda?)

  7. မြို့လယ်ကိုဘယ်လိုသွားရမလဲ?

    මට නගර මධ්‍යස්ථානයට කොහොමද යන්න? (Mata nagara madhyasthanayata kohomada yanna?)

  8. ဘယ်ဘက်သွားပါ။

    වම් පැත්තට හැරෙන්න (Wam pæththata hærenna)

  9. ညာဘက်သွားပါ။

    දකුණු පැත්තට හැරෙන්න (Dakunu pæththata hærenna)

  10. တိုက်ရိုက်သွားပါ။

    සෘජුව යන්න (Srujwa yanna)

  11. ခရီးခကြေးဘယ်လောက်လဲ?

    මිල කොපමණද? (Mila kopamanada?)

  12. တစ်ခုလက်မှတ်ပေးပါ။

    එක ටිකට්පතක්, කරුණාකර (Eka tikathpathak, karunakar)

  13. ဒီနေရာကအလွန်ဝေးလား?

    මෙහි සිට දුරද? (Mehi sita durada?)

  14. ကျွန်တော်လမ်းလွဲနေတယ်။

    මට අහිමිවී ඇත (Mata ahimiwee aetha)

  15. SIM ကတ်ဘယ်မှာဝယ်ရမလဲ?

    මට සම් කාඩ්පතක් කුඩා කරගන්න කොහේද? (Mata sam kaadpathak kuda karaganna kohēda?)

Everyday conversation

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

  1. ဟုတ်ကဲ့

    ඔව් (ow)

  2. မဟုတ်ဘူး

    නැහැ (nahæ)

  3. ဖြစ်နိုင်ပါတယ်

    හෝ (ho)

  4. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောတူပါတယ်

    මම එකඟයි (mama ekangayi)

  5. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောမတူပါဘူး

    මම එකඟ නොවෙමි (mama ekanga nowemi)

  6. ဒါက အထူးသင့်လျော်ပါတယ်

    එය හොඳයි (eya hondai)

  7. သင်ထင်သလဲ?

    ඔබට කුමක් හිතෙනවාද? (obata kumak hithenavada)

  8. သင်က ကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါသလား?

    ඔබට මට උදව් කළ හැකිද? (obata mata udaw kala haki da)

  9. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ကူညီမှုလိုပါတယ်

    මට උදව් අවශ්‍යයි (mata udaw avashyai)

  10. အချိန်ငယ်စောင့်ပါ

    තත්පරයක් රැඳී සිටින්න (thatparayak randi sitinna)

  11. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်

    මට කණගාටුයි (mata kanagatuayi)

  12. ပြဿနာမရှိပါ

    කණගාටු විය යුතු නැහැ (kanagatu viya yuthu nahæ)

  13. ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်

    සම්මානයන් (sammānayan)

  14. မွေးနေ့ပျော်ပါစေ

    ආයුෂ්මන් වාසනාවන්ත දිනයක් වේවා (āyuṣman vāsanāvanta dinayak vēvā)

  15. ခရီးစဉ်အောင်မြင်ပါစေ

    ආරක්ෂිත ගමනක් වේවා (ārakṣita gamanak vēvā)

Directions and getting around

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

  1. လမ်းပိုင်းရထားဘူတာဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    රේල් මැදුර කොහේද? (ræl mædura kohēda?)

  2. ဘတ်စ်ကားရပ်နားဘယ်မှာလဲ?

    බස් නැවතුම කොහේද? (bas næwthuma kohēda?)

  3. ဘယ်ဘက်ကနေပါလဲ?

    එය කුටියක්ද? (eya kuṭiyakda?)

  4. ဘယ်အချိန်မှာထွက်သွားလဲ?

    එය කවදා පිටවෙයිද? (eya kawdā piṭaveida?)

  5. ဒါမှန်လမ်းလား?

    මෙය නිවැරදි මාර්ගයද? (meya niværadi mārgayada?)

  6. ဒီမှာနီးပါတယ်

    මෙහි ආසන්නයි (mehi āsannayi)

  7. ဒီမှာဝေးပါတယ်

    මෙහිදී දුරයි (mehidī durayi)

  8. မြေပုံမှာပြပါ

    ඔබට සිතියමෙන් මට පෙන්වන්න පුළුවන්ද? (obata sithiyamen maṭa penvanna puḷuvanda?)

  9. ဒီမှာရပ်ပါ

    මෙහි නවත්තන්න, කරුණාකර (mehi nawathanna, karuṇākara)

  10. ဘယ်လောက်ကြာလဲ?

    එයට කොපමණ කාලයක් ගනීද? (eyaṭa kopamaṇa kālayak ganīda?)

Shopping and dining

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

  1. ဤသည်ဘယ်လောက်လဲ?

    මෙය කොච්චරද? (meya kochchara da?)

  2. ဒါလွန်အထက်လျှော့ပါသည်။

    එය අධික මිලක් වේ. (da lwan ahtek lho pa de.)

  3. သင့်မှာသက်သာတဲ့အရာရှိလား?

    ඔබට අඩු මිලක් ඇතිද? (thin hma that tha de a ya shi la?)

  4. ကတ်ဖြင့်ပေးနိုင်မလား?

    මට කාඩ්පතෙන් ගෙවිය හැකිද? (kat phyin pei naing ma la?)

  5. နှစ်ဦးအတွက်စားပွဲတစ်ခုလိုချင်ပါတယ်။

    මට දෙදෙනෙකුට මේසයක් අවශ්‍යයි. (hnit u a twet sa pwe ta khu lo chin pa de.)

  6. ဘီလ်ပေးပါ။

    ගෙවීම් පත, කරුණාකර. (bil pei pa.)

  7. ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပါလား?

    සේවාව ඇතුළුවේද? (wan hsaung hmu pa la?)

  8. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မဟာဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်စားသူပါ။

    මම ශාකහාරි ය. (kyaung taw/kyaung ma ha hnin thi hnin ywat sa thu pa.)

  9. ထ spicy နေ့လည်စားမယ်။

    කැරිබු ආහාර නැත, කරුණාකර. (hta spicy nei lwei sa ma.)

  10. ဒီဟာအရသာရှိပါတယ်။

    මෙය රසවත් වේ. (di ha a ya tha shi pa de.)

  11. မီနူးပေးပါလား?

    මට මෙනුවක් ලබා දිය හැකිද? (mi nu pei pa la?)

  12. ရေတစ်ခွက်ပေးပါ။

    එක කුඩු ජලය, කරුණාකර. (ye ta khwet pei pa.)

Emergencies and health

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

  1. တပ်ဖွဲ့ကိုခေါ်ပါ

    පොලීසිය අමතන්න (polisiya amathanna)

  2. အထူးကုသရေးကားကိုခေါ်ပါ

    ඇම්බුලන්ස් අමතන්න (ambulance amathanna)

  3. ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦးလိုအပ်ပါတယ်

    මට වෛද්‍යයෙක් අවශ්‍යයි (mata vaidyyayek avashyai)

  4. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မရောဂါရှိတယ်

    මට රෝගී හැඟීමක් ඇත (mata rogi hängimak atha)

  5. ငါ့ကိုငှက်သီးအပက်ရှိတယ်

    මට කුකුළු බිත්තර වලට ආසාදිතයි (mata kukulu biththara walata asadhithai)

  6. အနီးဆုံးဆေးရုံဘယ်မှာလဲ

    ඉතා ආසන්න රෝහල කොහෙද? (itha asanna rohala kohéda)

  7. ဒီမှာနာကျင်တယ်

    මෙහි වේදනාවක් ඇත (mehi vedanawak atha)

  8. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မပတ်စဘုတ်ပျောက်သွားတယ်

    මට මගේ පාර්ශවය අහිමි විය (mata mage parshwaya ahimi viya)

  9. သင့်ရဲ့ဟိုတယ်ကိုခေါ်ပေးနိုင်မလား

    ඔබට මගේ හෝටලය අමතන්න පුළුවන්ද? (obata mage hotelaya amathanna puluwanda)

  10. အကူအညီပေးပါ!

    ආධාරයක්! (adharayak)

Work and business

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

  1. မင်္ဂလာပါ။

    ඔබට හමුවීම සතුටුයි (obata hamuwīma sathutuyi)

  2. အစည်းအဝေးချိန်းဆိုကြပါစို့။

    අපි සාකච්ඡාවක් කටයුතු කරමු

  3. သင့်အတွက် ဘယ်အချိန်က အဆင်ပြေပါသလဲ။

    ඔබට කුමන වේලාවක් සුදුසුද?

  4. ဒီနေ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ ပို့မယ်။

    මම අද වාර්තාව යවන්නම්

  5. မနက်ဖြန် စကားပြောလို့ရမလား။

    අපි හෙට කතා කරමුද?

  6. ဖိုင်ကို အတူတင်ထားပါတယ်။

    කරුණාකර ගොනුව සම්බන්ධ කර ඇත

  7. သင့်အချိန်အတွက် ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်။

    ඔබගේ කාලය සඳහා ස්තූතියි

  8. သင်နှင့် အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာကို စောင့်မျှော်နေပါတယ်။

    ඔබ සමඟ වැඩ කිරීමට මම බලාපොරොත්තු වෙමි

  9. အချက်นั้นကို ရှင်းပြပေးနိုင်မလား။

    ඔබට එම ලක්ෂණය පැහැදිලි කළ හැකිද?

  10. ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ပြန်လာပါမယ်။

    මට ඔබට ආපසු පැමිණෙන්න ඉඩ දෙන්න

  11. အဆုံးသတ်ရက်က သောကြာနေ့ပါ။

    අවසන් දිනය සිකුරාදාය

Time, days and numbers

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

  1. နာရီဘယ်နှစ်လောက်လဲ?

    මේක කීයක්ද? (mēka kīyakda?)

  2. နာရီသုံးလောက်ဖြစ်တယ်

    මේක තුනයි (mēka thunayi)

  3. ဒီနေ့

    අද (ada)

  4. မနက်ဖြန်

    හෙට (heta)

  5. မနေ့က

    ඊයේ (īye)

  6. တနင်္လာ

    සඳුන්දා (sandundā)

  7. တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့

    අඟහරුවාදා (aṅaharuvādā)

  8. ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး

    බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා (brahaspathindā)

  9. တစ်

    එක (eka)

  10. နှစ်

    දෙක (deka)

  11. သုံး

    තුන (thuna)

  12. ဆယ်

    දහය (dahaya)

  13. ရာ

    සියයක් (siyayak)

  14. ခွဲ

    අර්ධය (ardhaya)

  15. ပို

    වැඩි (væḍi)

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