privilege of occasionally dispensing with the assertive affixes, or of conveying an assertive power to the root, or to the qualifying and euphonic affixes, the affixes of number, and the auxiliary affixes of tense, all of which, in affirmative sentences, require an assertive affix, thus သွားသည်, he goes, မသွား or မသွားဘူး, he goes not, သွားသေးသည်, he is still going, သွားသေး, he is not yet gone, သွားနှိုင်သည်, he can go, မသွားနှိုင်, he cannot go.
In colloquial discourse, a strong negative is sometimes made by affixing ရိုးလား to the root, or မို့တုံး, a contraction of မဟုတ်တုံး, to an assertive affix, as သွားရိုးလား, or သွားသည်မို့တုံး, he goes not.
verbs used substantively.
Verbs terminating in the assertive affix သည်, (occasionally changed to သ, သော or သော့,) are frequently used substantively, and in that character, admit the noun affixes. Verbs terminating in an assertive affix of tense, are capable of being used in the same manner, but the termination သည် or သော is, in some cases, superadded to qualify them for the substantive construction.
