ရဲ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: ရဲ့, ကဲ့
• IPA^(key): /jɛ̰/, /kɛ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rai. • ALA-LC: raiʹ • BGN/PCGN: yè./kè. • Okell: yé/ké

Particle

ရဲ့ • (rai.)

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), by John Okell and Anna Allott.