Looking for practical Shan to Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Shan phrase first, then the Vietnamese translation (Tiếng Việt) — 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 Vietnamese.
Tip: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Vietnamese-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.
မင်္ဂလာပါ
Xin chào(mingalar par)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်
Cảm ơn(kyeizu tin par tal)
မနက်ခင်းဖြန့်
Chào buổi sáng(ma net khin phyan)
နေ့လည်ခင်းဖြန့်
Chào buổi chiều(nei lyae khin phyan)
ညနေခင်းဖြန့်
Chào buổi tối(nya nae khin phyan)
ညအိပ်ချိန်
Chúc ngủ ngon(nya eit chain)
နောက်မှတွေ့မယ်
Hẹn gặp lại(nauk hma twei mae)
သွားတော့မယ်
Tạm biệt(thwa dor mae)
သင့်နာမည်ဘာလဲ?
Bạn tên là gì?(thing na mei ba leh)
ကျွန်တော်နာမည်ဂျွန်ပါ
Tôi tên là John(kyaun taw na mei John par)
သင်ဘယ်လိုလဲ?
Bạn khỏe không?(thing beh lo leh)
သင့်ကိုတွေ့ရတာဝမ်းသာပါတယ်
Rất vui được gặp bạn(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.
သင်အင်္ဂလိပ်စကားပြောလား?
Bạn có nói tiếng Anh không?(Ban co noi tieng Anh khong?)
ကျွန်တော်ဟင်းဒီကိုမပြောနိုင်ပါဘူး။
Tôi không nói tiếng Hindi tốt.(kyaung taw Hindi ko ma pyaw nain par bu.)
ကျွန်တော်မနားလည်ပါ။
Tôi không hiểu.(kyaung taw ma nar hlei par.)
ကျေးဇူးပြု၍အနှေးအမြန်ပြောပါ။
Xin hãy nói chậm.(kyei zu pyu ywa a hnei a myan pyaw par.)
ဒါကိုနောက်ထပ်ပြောပေးနိုင်မလား?
Bạn có thể nói lại không?(da ko nauk htaut pyaw pay nain ma lar?)
အိမ်သာဘယ်မှာလဲ?
Nhà vệ sinh ở đâu?(ain tha beh hma leh?)
မြို့လယ်ကိုဘယ်လိုသွားရမလဲ?
Tôi đi đến trung tâm thành phố như thế nào?(myo leh ko beh lo thwa ya ma leh?)
ဘယ်ဘက်သွားပါ။
Rẽ trái.(beh bhak thwa par.)
ညာဘက်သွားပါ။
Rẽ phải.(nya bhak thwa par.)
တိုက်ရိုက်သွားပါ။
Đi thẳng.(taik yike thwa par.)
ခရီးခကြေးဘယ်လောက်လဲ?
Giá vé là bao nhiêu?(ka yei kha kyei beh laut leh?)
တစ်ခုလက်မှတ်ပေးပါ။
Một vé, xin vui lòng.(ta khu let hmat pay par.)
ဒီနေရာကအလွန်ဝေးလား?
Nó có xa đây không?(di nay ya ka a lun wei lar?)
ကျွန်တော်လမ်းလွဲနေတယ်။
Tôi bị lạc.(kyaung taw lan lwe nay tai.)
SIM ကတ်ဘယ်မှာဝယ်ရမလဲ?
Tôi có thể mua thẻ SIM ở đâu?(SIM kat beh hma weh ya ma leh?)
Everyday conversation
Small talk, feelings, opinions, and common chat phrases for daily life.
ဟုတ်ကဲ့
Có(hote ke)
မဟုတ်ဘူး
Không(ma hote bu)
ဖြစ်နိုင်ပါတယ်
Có thể(phyit nain par tal)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောတူပါတယ်
Tôi đồng ý(kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw tu par tal)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောမတူပါဘူး
Tôi không đồng ý(kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw ma tu par bu)
ဒါက အထူးသင့်လျော်ပါတယ်
Nghe hay đấy(da ka a htu thin lya par tal)
သင်ထင်သလဲ?
Bạn nghĩ sao?(thin htin tha leh)
သင်က ကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါသလား?
Bạn có thể giúp tôi không?(thin ka ku nyi pay nain par tha lar)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ကူညီမှုလိုပါတယ်
Tôi cần giúp đỡ(kyaung taw/kyaung ma ku nyi hmu lo par tal)
အချိန်ငယ်စောင့်ပါ
Chờ một chút(a chain nge saung par)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်
Tôi xin lỗi(kyaung taw/kyaung ma taung pan par tal)
ပြဿနာမရှိပါ
Không có vấn đề gì(pyit tha na ma shi par)
ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်
Chúc mừng(gun yu par tal)
မွေးနေ့ပျော်ပါစေ
Chúc mừng sinh nhật(mwei nay pyaw par say)
ခရီးစဉ်အောင်မြင်ပါစေ
Chúc bạn đi đường an toàn(ka yi zin aung myin par say)
Directions and getting around
Asking where something is, left and right, distances, and finding your way.
လမ်းပိုင်းရထားဘူတာဘယ်မှာလဲ?
Nhà ga ở đâu?(Nhà ga)
ဘတ်စ်ကားရပ်နားဘယ်မှာလဲ?
Điểm dừng xe buýt ở đâu?(Điểm dừng)
ဘယ်ဘက်ကနေပါလဲ?
Nó ở sân ga nào?(Sân ga)
ဘယ်အချိန်မှာထွက်သွားလဲ?
Mấy giờ thì nó rời đi?(Rời đi)
ဒါမှန်လမ်းလား?
Đây có phải là đường đúng không?(Đường đúng)
ဒီမှာနီးပါတယ်
Nó ở gần đây(di hma ni par de)
ဒီမှာဝေးပါတယ်
Nó ở xa đây(di hma wei par de)
မြေပုံမှာပြပါ
Bạn có thể chỉ cho tôi trên bản đồ không?(Bản đồ)
ဒီမှာရပ်ပါ
Dừng ở đây, làm ơn(di hma yat ba)
ဘယ်လောက်ကြာလဲ?
Mất bao lâu?(beh laut kya le?)
Shopping and dining
Ordering food, asking prices, paying the bill, and shopping at markets or stores.
ဤသည်ဘယ်လောက်လဲ?
Cái này giá bao nhiêu?(i hna bɛ́ lout le?)
ဒါလွန်အထက်လျှော့ပါသည်။
Cái đó quá đắt.(da lwan ahtek lho pa de.)
သင့်မှာသက်သာတဲ့အရာရှိလား?
Bạn có cái nào rẻ hơn không?(thin hma that tha de a ya shi la?)
ကတ်ဖြင့်ပေးနိုင်မလား?
Tôi có thể trả bằng thẻ không?(kat phyin pei naing ma la?)
နှစ်ဦးအတွက်စားပွဲတစ်ခုလိုချင်ပါတယ်။
Tôi muốn một bàn cho hai người.(hnit u a twet sa pwe ta khu lo chin pa de.)
ဘီလ်ပေးပါ။
Cho tôi xin hóa đơn.(bil pei pa.)
ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပါလား?
Có bao gồm phí phục vụ không?(wan hsaung hmu pa la?)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မဟာဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်စားသူပါ။
Tôi ăn chay.(kyaung taw/kyaung ma ha hnin thi hnin ywat sa thu pa.)
ထ spicy နေ့လည်စားမယ်။
Xin đừng cho đồ ăn cay.(hta spicy nei lwei sa ma.)
ဒီဟာအရသာရှိပါတယ်။
Cái này ngon quá.(di ha a ya tha shi pa de.)
မီနူးပေးပါလား?
Cho tôi xin thực đơn.(mi nu pei pa la?)
ရေတစ်ခွက်ပေးပါ။
Cho tôi một ly nước.(ye ta khwet pei pa.)
Emergencies and health
Help, police, doctor, pharmacy, and urgent situations when you need assistance fast.
တပ်ဖွဲ့ကိုခေါ်ပါ
Gọi cảnh sát(tap hwei ko khaw pa)
အထူးကုသရေးကားကိုခေါ်ပါ
Gọi xe cứu thương(a htu ku tha yei kar ko khaw pa)
ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦးလိုအပ်ပါတယ်
Tôi cần một bác sĩ(sa ya wun ta u lo at pa de)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မရောဂါရှိတယ်
Tôi cảm thấy ốm(kyaung taw/kyaung ma yaung ga shi de)
ငါ့ကိုငှက်သီးအပက်ရှိတယ်
Tôi bị dị ứng với đậu phộng(nga ko ngat thee a pet shi de)
အနီးဆုံးဆေးရုံဘယ်မှာလဲ
Bệnh viện gần nhất ở đâu?(a nei saung say yone beh hma le)
ဒီမှာနာကျင်တယ်
Nó đau ở đây(di hma na kyin de)
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မပတ်စဘုတ်ပျောက်သွားတယ်
Tôi đã mất hộ chiếu(kyaung taw/kyaung ma pat sa boat pyauk thwa de)
သင့်ရဲ့ဟိုတယ်ကိုခေါ်ပေးနိုင်မလား
Bạn có thể gọi cho khách sạn của tôi không?(thing ye ho tel ko khaw pay nain ma la)
အကူအညီပေးပါ!
Cứu với!(a ku a nyi pay pa!)
Work and business
Meetings, email tone, schedules, and professional phrases for the workplace.
မင်္ဂလာပါ။
Rất vui được gặp bạn
အစည်းအဝေးချိန်းဆိုကြပါစို့။
Chúng ta hãy lên lịch một cuộc họp
သင့်အတွက် ဘယ်အချိန်က အဆင်ပြေပါသလဲ။
Bạn rảnh lúc mấy giờ?
ဒီနေ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ ပို့မယ်။
Tôi sẽ gửi báo cáo hôm nay
မနက်ဖြန် စကားပြောလို့ရမလား။
Chúng ta có thể nói chuyện vào ngày mai không?
ဖိုင်ကို အတူတင်ထားပါတယ်။
Xin vui lòng xem tệp đính kèm
သင့်အချိန်အတွက် ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်။
Cảm ơn bạn đã dành thời gian
သင်နှင့် အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာကို စောင့်မျှော်နေပါတယ်။
Tôi mong được làm việc với bạn
အချက်นั้นကို ရှင်းပြပေးနိုင်မလား။
Bạn có thể làm rõ điểm đó không?
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ပြန်လာပါမယ်။
Để tôi trả lời bạn sau
အဆုံးသတ်ရက်က သောကြာနေ့ပါ။
Hạn chót là thứ Sáu
Time, days and numbers
Clock times, days of the week, months, quantities, and counting for appointments and plans.