ရဲ့
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.