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Rh စေ causal (from စေ to send, order), as ပြု&#8203;စေ&#8203;သည် he makes (him) do, ဖြစ်&#8203;စေ let it be; when affixed to intransitive verbs, equivalent to the aspirated initial; as လွတ်&#8203;စေ&#8203;သည်, equivalent to လွှတ်&#8203;သည်, to make free, from လွတ်&#8203;သည်, to be free.

When used as an imperative or precative, the shade of meaning is frequently determindeddetermined [sic] by an intervening euphonic affix, as ဖြစ်&#8203;ပါ&#8203;လေ&#8203;စေ, may it be, ပြေး&#8203;ပါ&#8203;လေ&#8203;စေ, let it run. Combined with အုံ it makes စိမ့်.

စောက် with မ prefixed to the root, and followed by တော့ or သကဲ့&#8203;သို့, not proper, or desirable, as မသွား&#8203;စောက်&#8203;တော့, or မသွား&#8203;စောက်&#8203;သ&#8203;ကဲ့&#8203;သို့&#8203;ဖြစ်&#8203;သည်, it was not well to go, (on account of some evil that has just befallen).

စွ slightly intensive or emphatic, – commonly connected with the verb by a euphonic affix, and sometimes superseding the assertive affix, as ကြီး&#8203;လေစွ, it is great, indeed.

စွာ intensive, – mostly used before the participial affix သော, as ဖြတ်&#8203;စွာ&#8203;သော&#8203;သူ, a very excellent person.

ဆန်း, with the verb repeated, just that and no more, merely, nothing more, as ကြီး&#8203;ဆန်း&#8203;ကြီး&#8203;သည်, to be large merely.

ဆိတ် (from ဆိတ်, to be quiet), to be quiet, unmoved (though the occasion calls for exertion); as နေ&#8203;ဆိတ်&#8203;အည်, to remain unmoved.

ဆဲ, though put down by Pali grammarians as denoting the present tense, denotes in common usage the immediate future, as ရောက်&#8203;ဆဲရှိ&#8203;သည်, to be about to arrive, or on the point of arriving, equivalent to ရောက်&#8203;လု&#8203;ပြီ; and when repeated, and especially when prefixed by a future affix, is more directly future, as ရောက်&#8203;ဆဲဆဲ, or ရောက်&#8203;မည်&#8203;ဆဲဆဲ, to be about arriving before long.

တုံ, sometimes euphonic, but when repeated after a following verb, partaking of the nature of a continuative, and denoting alternation; as ငုတ်&#8203;တုံ&#8203;ပေါ်&#8203;တုံ&#8203;ရှိ&#8203;သည်, to be sinking and appearing by turns.

တော့, denoting a slight necessity.