ယခု

Burmese

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ယ'ခု
  • IPA(key): /jəkʰṵ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ya.hku. • ALA-LC: yakhu • BGN/PCGN: yăhku. • Okell: yăhkú

Noun

ယခု • (ya.hku.)

  1. the present[2]
    ယခုလက်ရှိya.hku.lakhri.current[2]
    ယခုအခါya.hku.a.hkathe present[2]
    ယခုအခါတွင်ya.hku.a.hka-twangnowadays, today[2]
    ယခုအချိန်တွင်ya.hku.a.hkyintwangcurrently[2]

Derived terms

(Adverbs)

  • ယခုတွင် (ya.hku.twang)
  • ယခုန (ya.hku.na.)
  • ယခုနေ့ (ya.hku.ne.)

Adjective

ယခု • (ya.hku.)

  1. present

Adverb

ယခု • (ya.hku.)

  1. now; at present[2]

Usage notes

Burmese is a diglossic language. This construct is used exclusively in the formal, literary (written) register. See synonyms for the informal, colloquial (spoken) equivalent form(s).

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (11. Now; Present time)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 31
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Ōno, Tōru (2000) ビルマ(ミャンマー)語辞典 [Burmese dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Daigakushorin, →ISBN, page 547

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