ရဲ

Daring to Do Something

Level 3

Ask with ရဲလား: မြွေကို ကိုင်ရဲလား။ (Would you dare hold a snake?)

How It Works

ရဲ means "brave". After another verb, it says whether someone has the courage to do it.

The negative is the most common use. Burmese speakers say မ…ရဲဘူး for shyness and fear alike: ဆရာ့ကို မမေးရဲဘူး (I'm too shy to ask the teacher).

Alone, ရဲ is a describing word: သူ အရမ်းရဲတယ် (She's very brave).

Check the spelling. ရဲ has no dot. ရဲ့, with the dot, means "of", as in ကျွန်မရဲ့ (my). Never write မမေးရဲ့ဘူး.

To encourage someone, people say ရဲရဲ, which means "boldly": ရဲရဲပြောပါ (Go ahead, speak up). It is a kind push for a shy learner.

Friends often add မကြောက်နဲ့ (Don't be scared).

ဆရာ့ကို မမေးရဲဘူး။
I don't dare ask the teacher.
မ…ရဲဘူး means "don't dare".
ကျွန်မ ညဘက် တစ်ယောက်တည်း မသွားရဲဘူး။
I'm afraid to go out alone at night.
A woman speaks about her fear.
ကျွန်တော် ဒီလောက်စပ်တာ မစားရဲဘူး။
I don't dare eat food this spicy.
A man speaks. ရဲ follows စား.
မြွေကို ကိုင်ရဲလား။
Would you dare hold a snake?
ရဲလား asks about courage.
ညီလေးက ရေကူးကန်ထဲ ခုန်ချရဲတယ်။
My little brother dares to jump into the pool.
ရဲတယ် says he has the nerve.

Writing ရဲ့ (of) for ရဲ (dare).
ဆရာ့ကို မမေးရဲ့ဘူး။
ဆရာ့ကို မမေးရဲဘူး။
ရဲ for "dare" has no dot. ရဲ့ with the dot means "of".

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ရဲLevel 3Daring to Do Something

Dare sits where can sits and is mostly negative.

ရဲ

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