Burmese

Alternative forms

• ဘယ်နှ ‎(bhaihna.)

Determiner

ဘယ်နှစ် • ‎(bhaihnac) (Romanization: MLCTS: bhaihnac • ALA-LC: bhay‘nhac‘ • BGN/PCGN: bèhnă, bèhna. • Okell: behnă, behná)

1. how much, how many

   အုန်းသီး ဘယ်နှစ်လုံး ယူမလဲ။‎

   un:si: bhaihnaclum: yuma.lai:||

   How many coconuts are you going to take?

Usage notes

Takes the same syntactic position as a numeral, namely after the noun and before the numeral classifier.

Synonyms

• ဘယ်လောက် ‎(bhailauk)

References

• “ဘယ်နှစ်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, ISBN 0-7007-1381-6), by John Okell and Anna Allott.