"-တော့" meaning in Burmese

See -တော့ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /tɔ̰/ Forms: -tau. [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|my|suffix|head=|sort=|tr=}} -တော့ • (-tau.), {{my-suffix}} -တော့ • (-tau.)
  1. particle suffixed to verbs to indicate finality Tags: morpheme Derived forms: လက်စသတ်တော့ (lakca.sattau.), အဲသည်တော့ (ai:sanytau.)
    Sense id: en--တော့-my-suffix-wFS6tKJO Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 56 44 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 60 40
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix

IPA: /tɔ̰/ Forms: -tau. [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|my|suffix|head=|sort=|tr=}} -တော့ • (-tau.), {{my-suffix}} -တော့ • (-tau.)
  1. particle suffixed to verbs as an emphasis (similar in usage to the adverb "when") Tags: morpheme Derived forms: ချင်တော့ (hkyangtau.), တန်တော့ (tantau.), ဖြစ်ချင်တော့ (hprachkyangtau.), ဘယ်တော့ (bhaitau.)
    Sense id: en--တော့-my-suffix-svSCc62w Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 49 51
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tau.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "my-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "lakca.sattau.",
          "word": "လက်စသတ်တော့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ai:sanytau.",
          "word": "အဲသည်တော့"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "particle suffixed to verbs to indicate finality"
      ],
      "id": "en--တော့-my-suffix-wFS6tKJO",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-တော့"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tau.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "my-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "hkyangtau.",
          "word": "ချင်တော့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "tantau.",
          "word": "တန်တော့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hprachkyangtau.",
          "word": "ဖြစ်ချင်တော့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "bhaitau.",
          "word": "ဘယ်တော့"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "particle suffixed to verbs as an emphasis (similar in usage to the adverb \"when\")"
      ],
      "id": "en--တော့-my-suffix-svSCc62w",
      "links": [
        [
          "when",
          "when"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-တော့"
}
{
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    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese suffixes",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "lakca.sattau.",
      "word": "လက်စသတ်တော့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ai:sanytau.",
      "word": "အဲသည်တော့"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tau.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "my-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "particle suffixed to verbs to indicate finality"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-တော့"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese suffixes",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "hkyangtau.",
      "word": "ချင်တော့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tantau.",
      "word": "တန်တော့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hprachkyangtau.",
      "word": "ဖြစ်ချင်တော့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bhaitau.",
      "word": "ဘယ်တော့"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tau.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-တော့ • (-tau.)",
      "name": "my-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "particle suffixed to verbs as an emphasis (similar in usage to the adverb \"when\")"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "when",
          "when"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɔ̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-တော့"
}

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