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Rh the verb by another affix, as ကြီး&#8203;ပေ&#8203;တောင်း, it is great indeed!

တမုံ့ or တမူ, expletive, after an assertive affix, as သွား&#8203;သည်&#8203;တ&#8203;မုံ့, (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, used after the assertive affixes, as ရှိ&#8203;သည်&#8203;လား&#8203;လေ, it is certainly, or I assure you.

ပ, or ပေါ့, familiar,—after the assertive affixes.

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

တည့်, (pron. ဒဲ့) denoting that the words to which it is affixed, are the words of the speaker, as ငါမယုံဘူးတည့်။ ဘဲ့နှယ်ဆိုဦးမည်လဲ, I don’t believe, I say; what will (you) say next, or repeated from the mouth of another person, as ရှိသည်တည့်, it is, he says.

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The negative is made by prefixing မ to the verb, which, beside its negative power, has the