< Tibetan

Bya tshig

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Essential egophoric

  • Nga bod mi yin
    • I am Tibetan.

The negative form is with the word Min

  • Nga p'i ling min
    • I am not englisman.

Existencial Testimonial

  • Kha lak shim po dug
    • The food is delicious
  • Me tok nyin gje mi dug
    • The flower don't is beautiful

Infinitive

In general the suffixes for to create infinitives is pa or wa

Root Infinitive
ReadLokTo readLok pa
GoDoTo goDo wa
HearNyenTo hearNyen pa
EatSaTo eatSa wa

Present

Da ta ba

Past

'da pa

There are several ways of expressing the past tense, the most common is with the suffixes chung, tong, and chin.

  • Nga na ning lor nyi hong la yül kor chin pa yin.
    • I traveled to Japón last year.

Future

Ma ong pa

Imperative

The imperative is generally formed replacing the verb root with the central vowel change into an O

Infinitive Imperative
To doDze 'paDo it!Dzo
To let goTang waLet go!Tong
To get upYar lang waGet up!Yar long
To eatTo sa waEat!To so

Howerer, there are cases in wicht tang or dhang must be annexing to the verbal root. Others words take the preffix shok to create the imperative.

Infinitive Imperative
To seeTa waSee!To dhang
To leadTi waLead!Ti shok
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