Burmese

Particle

ရဲ့ • ‎(rai.) (Romanization: MLCTS: rai. • ALA-LC: rai′ • BGN/PCGN: yè. • Okell: yé)

1. Used to mark a statement; mostly found in certain fixed phrases.

Alternative forms

• ကဲ့ ‎(kai.) (after a syllable ending in /ʔ/)

Derived terms

• ဟုတ်ကဲ့ ‎(hutkai.), ဟုတ်ကဲ့ပါ ‎(hutkai.pa, “yes”)
• နေကောင်းရဲ့လား ‎(nekaung:rai.la:, “how are you”)

Postposition

ရဲ့ • ‎(rai.)

1. of, ’s (indicating possession)

   အဖေရဲ့ အိမ်‎ ― a.hperai. im ― Father’s house

   အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ်‎ ― a.hpe.rai. im ― Father’s house

Usage notes

Optionally triggers induced creaky tone of the preceding word. Possession may also be indicated by induced creaky tone alone, without this postposition, e.g. အဖေ့ အိမ် ‎(a.hpe. im, “Father’s house”).

Synonyms

• ၏ ‎(e) (formal)

References

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