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ing assertive affix, as သွားစင့်, does he go?—rather infrequent.

Imperative Affixes.

စို့, or စို့၏, first person plural, as သွား​စို့, let us go.

ကြ​ကုင်​အံ့, ditto, preceded by the first personal, as ငါ​တို့​သည်​သွား​ကြ​ကုန်​အံ့, let us go, or we will go.

လော့, imperative proper, as သွား​လော့, go.

လည့်, ditto,—infrequent.

နှင့်, prohibitory, မ being prefixed to the verb, as မ​သွား​နှင့်, go not.

လင့်, ditto.

The simple root also is imperative, as well as when combined with certain of the euphonic, or qualifying affixes, as ပါ, တော့, ပေ, လေ, ချေ, ခဲ့, ဘိ, လိုက်, စေ, ရော့, ဦး, ရစ်, စမ်, &c. Some of these affixes are also variously combined with one another, and with the imperative affixes, to convey the ideas of intreaty, authority, &c.

Precative Affixes.

စေသော, may, as သွား​စေ​သော, may he go.

စေသတည်း, ditto, authoritatively, as ဖြစ်​စေ​သ​တည်း, be it so.

စောထို ditto,—infrequent.