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Rh made by ကား, as အမည်&#8203;ကား&#8203;မောင်&#8203;လောက်&#8203;တည်း, his name is Moung Louk,—sometimes taking ပေ, or ပေ&#8203;လျှင်, immediately before it; also, at the close of a parenthetic sentence, or a distinct paragraph, closing in သည်, commonly abbreviated to သ, as သွား&#8203;သ&#8203;တည်း, he went,—sometimes taking လျှင်, or က, or လျှင်က, immediately before it.

တတ်, ditto, at the close of a parenthesis or paragraph.

တကား, emphatic, or indicative of some emotion, as သေား&#8203;က&#8203;လေး&#8203;သေ&#8203;ပြီ&#8203;တ&#8203;ကား, my little son is dead, alas! မသွား&#8203;ပါ&#8203;တ&#8203;ကား, he goes not, indeed.

ရကား, sometimes equivalent to တကား.

ချင်း, ditto, commonly expressive of regret, as ဖြစ်&#8203;ရ&#8203;လေ&#8203;ချင်း, it is so, alas!

စွ, see under Qualifying affixes.

တောင်း, intensive,—commonly connected with the verb by another affix, as ကြီး&#8203;ပေ&#8203;တောင်း, it is great, indeed!

တမုံ့, or တမူ, expletive, after an assertive or precative affix, သွား&#8203;သည်&#8203;တမုံ့, (obsolete).

The following are colloquial only:—

နော်, soliciting acquiescence, as သွား&#8203;တော့&#8203;မည်&#8203;နော်, I will go, shall I? သွား&#8203;တော့&#8203;နော်, go, will you?

လေ, or လား&#8203;လေ, slightly emphatic or persistive, is used after the assertive affixes, as ရှိ&#8203;သည်&#8203;လား&#8203;လေ, it is certainly, or I assure you.

ပ, or ပေါ့, familiar,—without or after the assertive affix.

ကော, or ကော&#8203;လေ, ditto, sometimes superseding the assertive affix.

တည့်, (pron. ဒဲ့), denoting that the words to which it is affixed, are repeated from the mouth of another person, as ရှိ&#8203;သည်&#8203;တည့်, it is, he says.

. . The negative is made by prefixing မ to the verb, which, beside its negative power, has the privilege of occasionally dispensing with the assertive affixes, or of conveying an