Example sentences     

  T’ain-ba.  ထိုင်ပါ။  Please sit down. 

  Măt’ain-ba-néh.  မထိုင်ပါနဲ့။  Please don’t sit down. 

  Di-hma yaq-pa.  ဒီမှာ ရပ်ပါ။  Please stop here. 

  Di-hma măyaq-pa-néh.  ဒီမှာ မရပ်ပါနဲ့။  Please don’t stop here. 

Notes 

To make a request or an order, you replace -teh/-deh with -pa/-ba. 

To ask someone not to do something, you replace -p’ù/-bù with -néh. Notice the small but crucial difference between “Please don’t […]” and “It doesn’t (or we don’t etc) […]”: 

  Di-hma măyaq-pa-néh.   ဒီမှာ မရပ်ပါနဲ့။   Please don’t stop here. 

  Di-hma măyaq-pa-bù.   ဒီမှာ မရပ်ပါဘူး။   It doesn’t stop here. 

The -pa/-ba in T’ain-ba and Măt’ain-ba-néh is the same polite suffix you have been using in […]-pa-deh, and if you leave it out you are still making a request, but without -pa/-ba it sounds peremptory: 

  T’ain-ba.   ထိုင်ပါ။   Please sit down. 

  T’ain!   ထိုင်။   Sit down! 

  Măt’ain-ba-néh.   မထိုင်ပါနဲ့။   Please don’t sit down. 

  Măt’ain-néh!   မထိုင်နဲ့။   Don’t sit down!