Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said. This great ease can also derive into downplaying something.
Si tu pagas,rai!! ―If you pay, thensure!
Ixò rai! ―don't worry about that / that's of no importance! / We know that already!
A vusatrosrai!, que ixo no tos afecta! ―Of course that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!
It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.
Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said.
Si tu pagues,rai!! ―If you pay, thensure!
Això rai! ―don't worry about that / that's of no importance! / We know that already!
Clar, a vosaltresrai!, si això no us afecta! ―Of course, that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!
It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.
The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “rai”, inKamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius,→ISBN
^Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30)Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten;145), Leiden • Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page114 Nr. 1006
