རེ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*re/
• Lhasa: /ʐe˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*re/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: re^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐe˩˨/

Pronoun

རེ • (re)

1. single, a single one
2. some (persons), something
3. each, every
4. A particle for the sixties.

   དྲུག་ཅུ་རེ་གཅིག ― drug cu re gcig ― sixty-one

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*re/
• Lhasa: /ʐe˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*re/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: re^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐe˩˨/

Verb

རེ • (re) (nominal form རེ་བ)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to hope, to desire, to expect

   Synonym: རེ་བ་རྒྱག (re ba rgyag)

2. (auxiliary) to be worth doing

   ལས་ཀ་འདི་བྱེད་རེ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ― las ka 'di byed re yod pa red ― This work is worth doing.

Conjugation

Conjugation of རེ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རེ	re
Future	རེ	re
Past	རེ རེས	re res
Imperative	རེ རེས	re res

Noun

རེ • (re)

1. Abbreviation of རེ་བ (re ba, “hope”).