Tibetan Grammar - First case 'ming tsam' - just the name
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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.
First Case, མིང་ཙམ་, just the name
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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
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དགའ་སྤྲོ་ |
happy joyful |
happy |
- from: དགའ་བ་ adjective, noun, verb:
joyful, happy; joy; to be happy, glad, pleased, to take joy in
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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. |
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