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ရဲ့

ရဲ့

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

Postposition

ရဲ့ (rai.)

  1. of, ’s (indicating possession)
    အဖေရဲ့ အိမ်a.hperai. im ― Father’s house
    အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ်a.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.