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Rh &c. Some of these affixes are also variously combined with one another, and with the imperative affixes, to convey the ideas of entreaty, authority, &c.

စေသော, may, as သွား&#8203;စေ&#8203;သော, may he go. [It is commonly combined with ပါ, as သွား&#8203;ပါ&#8203;စေ&#8203;သော။ St.]

စေသတည်း, ditto, authoritatively, as ဖြစ်&#8203;စေ&#8203;သ&#8203;တည်း, be it so.

စေခလို, ditto,—infrequent.

သော, connecting the verb with a subsequent noun, being equivalent to the relative pronoun in most languages, as မြတ်&#8203;သော&#8203;လူ, the excelling man or the man who excels; ပြေး&#8203;သော&#8203;မြင်း, the running horse, or the horse which runs; ရောက်&#8203;သော&#8203;သင်္ဘော, the arriving ship, or the ship which arrives; sometimes contracted to သ, as ရှိသမျှ, as much as there is; sometimes dispensing with the verb altogether, as တတ်&#8203;အား&#8203;သ&#8203;မျှ, for တတ်&#8203;အား&#8203;ရှိ&#8203;သ&#8203;မျှ, (do) as much as possible commonly omitted after the assertive future affix မည်.

သည်, ditto.

သေး, denoting present continuance, as သွား&#8203;သေး&#8203;သည်, he is still going; မသွား&#8203;သေး, he is still not gone, or he is not yet gone; sometimes denoting beside, more than, in addition, as ငစ&#8203;ကား&#8203;သာ&#8203;မ&#8203;ဟုတ်၊ စာ&#8203;ရှိ&#8203;သေး&#8203;သည်, there is not only my word, but there is scripture also.

ခဲ့, just past, as သွား&#8203;ခဲ့&#8203;သည်, he has just gone; frequently written ကဲ့; very frequently euphonic.

ဘူး, past indefinite, as သွား&#8203;ဘူး&#8203;သည်, he went. In negative sentences, prefixed by စ, it becomes ဖူး, and signifies (not) ever, as မသွား&#8203;စ&#8203;ဖူး, he never went. စသီး and စတောင်း are of similar import, but infrequent.