Looking for practical Sinhala to Shan phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sinhala 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: read the Shan line out loud three times, then cover the Sinhala side and try to recall the meaning — repetition builds memory faster than silent reading.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
හෙලෝ
မင်္ဂလာပါ(mingalar par)
ස්තුතියි
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်(kyeizu tin par tal)
සුභ උදෑසනක්
မနက်ခင်းဖြန့်(ma net khin phyan)
සුභ පස්වරුක්
နေ့လည်ခင်းဖြန့်(nei lyae khin phyan)
සුභ සවසක්
ညနေခင်းဖြန့်(nya nae khin phyan)
සුභ රාත්රියක්
ညအိပ်ချိန်(nya eit chain)
පසුව හමුවෙමු
နောက်မှတွေ့မယ်(nauk hma twei mae)
ගුඩ් බයි
သွားတော့မယ်(thwa dor mae)
ඔබගේ නම කුමක්ද?
သင့်နာမည်ဘာလဲ?(thing na mei ba leh)
මගේ නම ජෝන්
ကျွန်တော်နာမည်ဂျွန်ပါ(kyaun taw na mei John par)
ඔබට කොහොමද?
သင်ဘယ်လိုလဲ?(thing beh lo leh)
ඔබට හමුවී සතුටුයි
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.
ඔබට ඉංග්රීසි කතා කරන්න පුළුවන්ද?
သင်အင်္ဂလိပ်စကားပြောလား?(thing angalait sa ka pyaw lar?)
මට හින්දි හොඳින් කතා කරන්න බැහැ
ကျွန်တော်ဟင်းဒီကိုမပြောနိုင်ပါဘူး။(kyaung taw Hindi ko ma pyaw nain par bu.)
මට තේරෙන්නේ නැහැ
ကျွန်တော်မနားလည်ပါ။(kyaung taw ma nar hlei par.)
කරුණාකර මන්ද ගතව කතා කරන්න
ကျေးဇူးပြု၍အနှေးအမြန်ပြောပါ။(kyei zu pyu ywa a hnei a myan pyaw par.)
ඔබ එය නැවත කියන්න පුළුවන්ද?
ဒါကိုနောက်ထပ်ပြောပေးနိုင်မလား?(da ko nauk htaut pyaw pay nain ma lar?)
සැලැස්ම කුඩා කාමරය කොහේද?
အိမ်သာဘယ်မှာလဲ?(ain tha beh hma leh?)
මට නගර මධ්යස්ථානයට කොහොමද යන්න?
မြို့လယ်ကိုဘယ်လိုသွားရမလဲ?(myo leh ko beh lo thwa ya ma leh?)
වම් පැත්තට හැරෙන්න
ဘယ်ဘက်သွားပါ။(beh bhak thwa par.)
දකුණු පැත්තට හැරෙන්න
ညာဘက်သွားပါ။(nya bhak thwa par.)
සෘජුව යන්න
တိုက်ရိုက်သွားပါ။(taik yike thwa par.)
මිල කොපමණද?
ခရီးခကြေးဘယ်လောက်လဲ?(ka yei kha kyei beh laut leh?)
එක ටිකට්පතක්, කරුණාකර
တစ်ခုလက်မှတ်ပေးပါ။(ta khu let hmat pay par.)
මෙහි සිට දුරද?
ဒီနေရာကအလွန်ဝေးလား?(di nay ya ka a lun wei lar?)
මට අහිමිවී ඇත
ကျွန်တော်လမ်းလွဲနေတယ်။(kyaung taw lan lwe nay tai.)
මට සම් කාඩ්පතක් කුඩා කරගන්න කොහේද?
SIM ကတ်ဘယ်မှာဝယ်ရမလဲ?(SIM kat beh hma weh ya ma leh?)
Everyday conversation
Small talk, feelings, opinions, and common chat phrases for daily life.
ඔව්
ဟုတ်ကဲ့(hote ke)
නැහැ
မဟုတ်ဘူး(ma hote bu)
හෝ
ဖြစ်နိုင်ပါတယ်(phyit nain par tal)
මම එකඟයි
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောတူပါတယ်(kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw tu par tal)
මම එකඟ නොවෙමි
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ သဘောမတူပါဘူး(kyaung taw/kyaung ma tha baw ma tu par bu)
එය හොඳයි
ဒါက အထူးသင့်လျော်ပါတယ်(da ka a htu thin lya par tal)
ඔබට කුමක් හිතෙනවාද?
သင်ထင်သလဲ?(thin htin tha leh)
ඔබට මට උදව් කළ හැකිද?
သင်က ကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါသလား?(thin ka ku nyi pay nain par tha lar)
මට උදව් අවශ්යයි
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ ကူညီမှုလိုပါတယ်(kyaung taw/kyaung ma ku nyi hmu lo par tal)
තත්පරයක් රැඳී සිටින්න
အချိန်ငယ်စောင့်ပါ(a chain nge saung par)
මට කණගාටුයි
ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်(kyaung taw/kyaung ma taung pan par tal)
කණගාටු විය යුතු නැහැ
ပြဿနာမရှိပါ(pyit tha na ma shi par)
සම්මානයන්
ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်(gun yu par tal)
ආයුෂ්මන් වාසනාවන්ත දිනයක් වේවා
မွေးနေ့ပျော်ပါစေ(mwei nay pyaw par say)
ආරක්ෂිත ගමනක් වේවා
ခရီးစဉ်အောင်မြင်ပါစေ(ka yi zin aung myin par say)
Directions and getting around
Asking where something is, left and right, distances, and finding your way.