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.)
- 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.)
- 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.