Syntax

လဲ   is the ending to questions that demand more than a yes or no in the answers.  When လဲ is preceded by ဘာ, ဘာလဲ means "what."

ဒါ ဘာလဲ။    What is this?

နံပါတ် ၁ ဘာလဲ။      What is the No.1?

A noun appears in between ဘာ and လဲ .

ဒါ ဘာနိုင်ငံ လဲ။     What country is this?

ရှင် ဘာလူမျိုးလဲ။       What nationality are you?

A verb appears in between ဘာ and လဲ .

ခင်ဗျား ဘာစားမလဲ။    What will you eat?

ဒီနေ့ ရှင် ဘာသောက်မလဲ။   What will you drink today?

Note: မ is a verb paricle for future tense that can be found in the questions that end with လား or လဲ.

Noun comes first when both noun and verb appear in ဘာလဲ "what" questions.

သူ ဘာစာအုပ် ဖတ်မလဲ။    What book wll he read?

ခင်ဗျား ဘာစာအုပ် ဝယ်ချင်သလဲ။   What pants do you want to buy?

နဲ့   "with" is a postposition that follows a noun.

သူ ဘာအသားနဲ့ စားမလဲ။    What meat will he eat with?

ခင်ဗျား ဘာဟင်းနဲ့ စားမလဲ။   What curry will you eat with?

မယ် is a positive sentence ending for future tense.

ကျွန်တော် စားမယ်။    I will eat.

သူ လာမယ်။      He will come.