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Rh privilege of occasionally dispensing with the assertive affixes, or of conveying an assertive power to the root, or to the qualifying and euphonic affixes, the affixes of number, and the auxiliary affixes of tense, all of which, in affirmative sentences, require an assertive affix, thus သွား&#8203;သည်, he goes, မ&#8203;သွား or မ&#8203;သွား&#8203;ဘူး, he goes not, သွား&#8203;သေး&#8203;သည်, he is still going, သွား&#8203;သေး, he is not yet gone, သွား&#8203;နှိုင်&#8203;သည်, he can go, မ&#8203;သွား&#8203;နှိုင်, he cannot go.

In colloquial discourse, a strong negative is sometimes made by affixing ရိုး&#8203;လား to the root, or မို့&#8203;တုံး, a contraction of မ&#8203;ဟုတ်&#8203;တုံး, to an assertive affix, as သွား&#8203;ရိုး&#8203;လား, or သွား&#8203;သည်&#8203;မို့&#8203;တုံး, he goes not.

Verbs terminating in the assertive affix သည်, (occasionally changed to သ, သော or သော့,) are frequently used substantively, and in that character, admit the noun affixes. Verbs terminating in an assertive affix of tense, are capable of being used in the same manner, but the termination သည် or သော is, in some cases, superadded to qualify them for the substantive construction.