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{{grule|Most verbs have their patient in ming tsam.}}<br>
Most verbs have their patient in ming tsam.
See: [[Verb Notes]], [[1.2.1 patient]]; [[Verbs]], [[2  introduction to classifications of verbs according to their grammar]]; Verb Notes, [[1.2 patient  / subject-object / valency: advantages and problems;]]
See: Verb Notes, 1.2.1 patient; Verbs, 2  introduction to classifications of verbs according to their grammar; Verb Notes, 1.2 patient  / subject-object / valency: advantages and problems;  


2.1.  linking verb
===Linking verb===
{{grule|'''Patient''' (subject): ''ming tsam'', '''qualifier''': ''ming tsam'', strict ''first patient&mdash;then qualifier'' word order}}<br>


patient (subject): ming tsam qualifier: ming tsam strict "first patient - then qualifier" word order
{{gsample|དམར་པོ་ནི་ཁ་དོག་ཡིན།|red&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;colour&mdash;&mdash;is|Red is [a] colour.}}


དམར་པོ་ནི་ཁ་དོག་ཡིན།


red            colour  is
===Verbs of existence===
{{grule|'''Patient''': ''ming tsam'', '''qualifier'''&mdash;place of existence: ''la don''}}<br>


Red is [a] colour.
{{gsample|མོ་གཤམ་གྱི་བུ་མེད།|barren women son not exist|The barren women’s son does not exist.}}




2.2 verbs of existence
===Verbs of possession I===
{{grule|'''Patient&mdash;what is owned: ''ming tsam'', '''qualifier'''&mdash;possessor: ''la don''}}<br>


patient: ming tsam            qualifier - place of existence: la don
{{gsample|བདག་ལ་གཡག་ཡོད།|I  bos grunniens have|I have yaks.}}


མོ་གཤམ་གྱི་བུ་མེད།


barren women son not exist
===Intransitive verbs===
{{grule|'''Patient''' (subject): ''ming tsam'', '''qualifier''': ''la don''}}<br>


The barren women’s son does not exist.
{{gfverb|ཤར་བ།|འཆར་བ།|འཆར་བ།||to arise|''v.i.''|ཐ་མི་དད་པ་}}
{{gsample|ཉི་མ་ཤར།|sun&nbsp;&nbsp;arose|The sun arose.}}<br>


{{gfverb|ཕྱིན་པ་ / སོང་བ།|འགྲོ་བ།|འགྲོ་བ།|སོང།|to go|''v.i.''|ཐ་མི་དད་པ་}}
{{gsample|ཁོ་ལྷ་སར་ཕྱིན།|he Lhasa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;went|He went to Lhasa.}}


2.3 verbs of possession I
patient - what is owned: ming tsam            qualifier - possessor: la don
བདག་ལ་གཡག་ཡོད།
I  bos grunniens have
I have yaks.         
2.4 intransitive verbs
patient (subject): ming tsam qualifier: la don
ཉི་མ་ཤར།
ཤར་བ།  འཆར་བ།  འཆར་བ། ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
sun    arose
The sun arose.
ཁོ་ལྷ་སར་ཕྱིན།
ཕྱིན་པ་ / སོང་བ།  འགྲོ་བ།  འགྲོ་བ།  སོང། ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
he Lhasa  went
He went to Lhasa.
2.5 transitive verbs


===Transitive verbs===
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WORK IN PROGRESS: the grammar articles are being edited for wiki publication. During editing, the content might be incomplete, out of sequence or even misleading.

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.

First Case, མིང་ཙམ་, just the name

This section contains Tibetan script. Without proper Tibetan rendering support configured, you may see other symbols instead of Tibetan script.

Also called: nominative case, "no particle", accusative case, patient role particle "-Ø". This case does not add any particle to the word or changes it any way.


Independent of verb type

Topic

Enumeration, section heading, title

དང་པོ།
first
firstly


Proleptic

Proleptic: anticipatory
བྲམ་ཟེ་དབུལ་པོ་དེ་ནི་ཁྱིམ་བདག་གིས་དེ་ལ་བཟའ་དང་བགོ་བ་བྱིན།
Brahmin  poor       householder            food       cloths   gave
(Regarding) that poor Brahmin, the householder gave food and cloth to that (one).
The householder gave food and cloth to that poor Brahmin.


Temporal nominative

Temporal nominative can also be viewed as a very frequently omitted locative (la don) of time.


དེར་བསྡད་དུས་ same as: དེར་བསྡད་དུས་སུ་
there stayed time            there stayed time la don
at the time of staying there


དེའི་ཚེ་ same as: དེའི་ཚེ་ན་
that time            that time la don
at that (point in) time


In compound words

Note: See also "Formation of the Tibetan Words - compounded nouns".

Adjective/verb - adjective/verb

to be happy, glad v.i. ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
དགའ་བ།  དགའ་བ།  དགའ་བ། 
past pres. fut. imp.
དགའ་སྤྲོ་
happy joyful
happy
  • from: དགའ་བ་ adjective, noun, verb:

joyful, happy; joy; to be happy, glad, pleased, to take joy in

to be joyful
to enjoy
v.i. ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
སྤྲོ་བ།  སྤྲོ་བ།  སྤྲོ་བ། 
past pres. fut. imp.
སྤྲོ་བ་
joyful
to be joyful, to enjoy


བོད་སྐད་
Tibet language
Tibetan language


Noun - adjective

A noun-adjective combination becomes either just a noun with an adjective (see: " adjectives") or a new word.


གཏིང་ཟབ་
bottom, depth  deep
very deep; profound


རྒྱ་ཆེ་
extent big
vast, extensive


Apposition

སངས་རྒྱས། ཀུན་མཁྱེན། རྐང་གཉིས་གཙོ་བོ། སྐུ་གསུམ་པ། མཁྱེན་ལྔ་པ། འགྲོ་བའི་བླ་མ། རྒྱལ་བ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས།
Buddha    all knowing   foot two    main  kaya  three knowledge five being highest victorious Bhagavan
The Buddha, the Omniscient One, Chief of Humans (bipeds), Victorious One, [Possessor of] the Three Kayas, the One with the Five Knowledges, Lord of Beings, Victorious One, Bhagavan[...]


Nouns in a list - nominalized clauses in a list

སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཁམས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་དང༌། ཡོན་ཏེན་སངས་རྒྱས་འཕྲིན་ལས་ཐ་མ་སྟེ།
Buddha Dharma assembly element enlightenment qualities enlightened activity final
The Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, element, enlightenment, qualities and finally enlightened activity


རྒྱུ་ནི་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་སྟེ། སའི་ཁམས་ནི་སྲ་ཞིང་གཞི་འཛིན་པའི་ལས་བྱེད་པ། ཆུ་ཁམས་གཤེར་ཞིང་སྡུད་པ།
cause elements great four earth element solid and base to hold action do water element liquid and draw together
མེ་ཁམས་དྲོ་ཞིང་སྨིན་པ། རླུང་ཁམས་གཡོ་ཞིང་འཕེལ་བར་བྱེད་པའོ།།
fire element warmth and mature wind element move and increase do
Causal [forms] are the four great elements. The earth element is solid and is performing the function of support. The water element is liquid and cohesion. The fire element is warmth maturing. The wind element is moving and increasing.


Dependent on verb type

Most verbs have their patient in ming tsam.


See: Verb Notes, 1.2.1 patient; Verbs, 2 introduction to classifications of verbs according to their grammar; Verb Notes, 1.2 patient / subject-object / valency: advantages and problems;

Linking verb

Patient (subject): ming tsam, qualifier: ming tsam, strict first patient—then qualifier word order


དམར་པོ་ནི་ཁ་དོག་ཡིན།
red—————————colour——is
Red is [a] colour.


Verbs of existence

Patient: ming tsam, qualifier—place of existence: la don


མོ་གཤམ་གྱི་བུ་མེད།
barren women son not exist
The barren women’s son does not exist.


Verbs of possession I

Patient—what is owned: ming tsam, qualifier—possessor: la don


བདག་ལ་གཡག་ཡོད།
I bos grunniens have
I have yaks.


Intransitive verbs

Patient (subject): ming tsam, qualifier: la don


to arise v.i. ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
ཤར་བ།  འཆར་བ།  འཆར་བ། 
past pres. fut. imp.
ཉི་མ་ཤར།
sun  arose
The sun arose.


to go v.i. ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
ཕྱིན་པ་ / སོང་བ།  འགྲོ་བ།  འགྲོ་བ།  སོང།
past pres. fut. imp.
ཁོ་ལྷ་སར་ཕྱིན།
he Lhasa   went
He went to Lhasa.


Transitive verbs

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Endnotes