ရဲ့
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Burmese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Phonetic respellings: ရဲ့, ကဲ့
- IPA(key): /jɛ̰/, /kɛ̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: rai. • ALA-LC: raiʹ • BGN/PCGN: yè./kè. • Okell: yé/ké
Particle[edit]
ရဲ့ • (rai.)
- Used to mark a statement; mostly found in certain fixed phrases.
Alternative forms[edit]
- ကဲ့ (kai.) (after a syllable ending in /ʔ/)
Derived terms[edit]
- ဟုတ်ကဲ့ (hutkai.), ဟုတ်ကဲ့ပါ (hutkai.pa, “yes”)
- နေကောင်းရဲ့လား (nekaung:rai.la:, “how are you”)
Postposition[edit]
ရဲ့ • (rai.)
- of, ’s (indicating possession)
- အဖေရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hperai. im ― Father’s house
- အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hpe.rai. im ― Father’s house
Usage notes[edit]
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[edit]
- ၏ (e) (formal)
References[edit]
- “ရဲ့” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.