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Rh time of action or being, as သွား&#8203;တုန်း&#8203;တွင် or သွား&#8203;တုန်း&#8203;ခါ, equivalent to သွား&#8203;စည်&#8203;တွင်, or သွား&#8203;စည်&#8203;အ&#8203;ခါ, the time of going, while going.

The verbal in ရုံ, perhaps from အ&#8203;ရုံ, just so much and no more, confines the action or being to what is expressed by the root, as ပြော&#8203;ရုံ&#8203;ပြု&#8203;သည်, or ပြော&#8203;ရုံ&#8203;မျှ&#8203;ပြု&#8203;သည်, he just speaks, i. e. does no more than speaking.

The particle ကာ is of somewhat similar import with ရုံ, as ရိပ်&#8203;ကာ&#8203;ပြော&#8203;သည်, he speaks allusively merely; ပြော&#8203;ကာ&#8203;မျှ&#8203;အား&#8203;ဖြင့်, by means of speaking merely.

The verbal formative မှန်း, from မှန်, to be right, true, is used chiefly in negative sentences, as ရောက်&#8203;မှန်း&#8203;ကို&#8203;မ&#8203;သိ, or ရောက်&#8203;မှန်း&#8203;မ&#8203;သိ, (he) knows not the fact of the arrival. It is sometimes used without a verbal root, as ဘု&#8203;ရား&#8203;မှန်း&#8203;မ&#8203;သိ။ တ&#8203;ရား&#8203;မှန်း&#8203;မ&#8203;သိ, (he) knows nothing about God or religion.

6. Beside verbal nouns formed from verbs used substantively, there is another kind which may be termed the honorific verbal, formed by combining the verbal root with the adjective တော်. This verbal, followed by the verb မူ&#8203;သည်, to do, perform, is always used instead of the simple verb,