-တွေ

See also: တွေး and တွေ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

(colloquial)

Phonetic respellings: ဒေ, တေ
IPA^(key): /dè/, /tè/
Romanization: MLCTS: twe • ALA-LC: tve • BGN/PCGN: de/te • Okell: tei/tei

(careful)

Phonetic respellings: ဒွေ, တွေ
IPA^(key): /dwè/, /twè/
Romanization: MLCTS: twe • ALA-LC: tve • BGN/PCGN: dwe/twe • Okell: twei/twei

Usage notes

The voiced variant /d(w)è/ occurs after vowels and /ɴ/; the voiceless variant /t(w)è/ after /ʔ/.

Suffix

-တွေ • (-twe)

(colloquial) indicates a plural (with a count noun)
lots of (with a mass noun)

Synonyms

-များ (-mya:) (formal, literary)
-တို့ (-tui.) (formal, literary)

References

“-တွေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
“-တွေ” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.

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