နေကောင်းရဲ့လား

Burmese

Burmese phrasebook
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Etymology

နေ (ne, “to live, dwell”) +‎ ကောင်း (kaung:, “good”) +‎ ရဲ့ (rai., “of, 's, certainty marker”) +‎ လား (la:, “yes-no question particle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nèkáʊɴjɛ̰lá/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nekaung:rai.la: • ALA-LC: nekoṅʻʺraiʹlāʺ • BGN/PCGN: nekaung:yè.la: • Okell: neikaùñyélà

Phrase

နေကောင်းရဲ့လား • (nekaung:rai.la:)

  1. how are you?

Further reading

  • Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN, by John Okell and Anna Allott, p. 186.
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