Completion particle, full stop, སླར་བསྡུ་, རྫོགས་ཚིག་
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| Articles on Tibetan Grammar |
| 1. Introduction |
| 2. Formation of the Tibetan Syllable |
| 3. Formation of the Tibetan Word |
| 4. First case: ming tsam |
| 5. agentive particle |
| 6. Connective Particle |
| 7. La don particles |
| 8. La don particles—Notes |
| 9. Originative case |
| 10. Verbs |
| 11. Verbs—Notes |
| 12. Syntactic particles |
by Stefan J. E.
- Chapter overview: Tibetan Grammar - Syntactic particles
Completion particle, full stop, སླར་བསྡུ་, རྫོགས་ཚིག་
This particle can come at the end of a section of related clauses, a quote or a sentence.
Spelling
The final letter of the last word is duplicated and placed as an extra syllable with an added ོ.
- E.g. འདོད་དོ། །, འདུག་གོ །, བྱུང་ངོ༌། །, ཡིན་ནོ། །, ཐོབ་བོ། །, སྙམ་མོ། །, དགར་རོ། །, འཕེལ་ལོ། །, བྱས་སོ། །, གྱུརད་ཏོ། །.
In the case of the final letter འ་ the ོ is added to the འ་ of the word without a duplicated letter.
- E.g. འདའ་ and འོ་ becomes འདའོ། །.
In the case of no postfix letter, མཐའ་མེད་, an འོ་ is added to the word.
- E.g. འགྲོ་ and འོ་ becomes འགྲོའོ། །.
Note: The completion particle after a noun (or nominalized verb) commonly indicates an omitted verb.
Example
| དགེ་འདུན་ནི་ས་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའོ། ། |
| sangha bhumi stay bodhisattva |
| The sangha [is] the bodhisattvas, [who] reside on the bhumis. |