ရဲ့
Burmese
editPronunciation
edit- Phonetic respellings: ရဲ့, ကဲ့
- IPA(key): /jɛ̰/, /kɛ̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: rai. • ALA-LC: raiʹ • BGN/PCGN: yè./kè. • Okell: yé/ké
Particle
editရဲ့ • (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
editရဲ့ • (rai.)
- of, ’s (indicating possession)
- အဖေရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hperai. im ― Father’s house
- အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hpe.rai. im ― Father’s house
Usage notes
editOptionally 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.