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====Enumeration, section heading, title====
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{{gsample|དང་པོ།|first|firstly}}
དང་པོ།


first


firstly
====Proleptic====
:::::::Proleptic: ''anticipatory''


{{gsample|བྲམ་ཟེ་དབུལ་པོ་དེ་ནི་ཁྱིམ་བདག་གིས་དེ་ལ་བཟའ་དང་བགོ་བ་བྱིན།|Brahmin&nbsp;&nbsp;poor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;householder&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;food&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cloths&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;gave|(Regarding) that poor Brahmin, the householder gave food and cloth to that (one).<br>The householder gave food and cloth to that poor Brahmin.}}


1.1.2 proleptic*
* anticipatory


བྲམ་ཟེ་དབུལ་པོ་དེ་ནི་ཁྱིམ་བདག་གིས་དེ་ལ་བཟའ་དང་བགོ་བ་བྱིན།
===Temporal nominative===
:''Temporal nominative'' can also be viewed as a very frequently omitted locative ''(la don)'' of time.


Brahmin  poor        householder              food        cloths  gave 


(Regarding) that poor Brahmin, the householder gave food and cloth to that (one).
{{gsample|དེར་བསྡད་དུས་ <small><small>''same as:''</small></small> དེར་བསྡད་དུས་སུ་|there stayed time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;there stayed time ''la don'' |at the time of staying there}}<br>
The householder gave food and cloth to that poor Brahmin.


{{gsample|དེའི་ཚེ་ <small><small>''same as:''</small></small> དེའི་ཚེ་ན་|that time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;that time la don|at that (point in) time}}


1.2 temporal nominative*
* this can also be viewed as a very frequently omitted locative (la don) of time


དེར་བསྡད་དུས་ same as དེར་བསྡད་དུས་སུ་
===In compound words===
:''Note:'' See also [["Formation of the Tibetan Words - compounded nouns".]]


there stayed time            there stayed time la don
====Adjective/verb - adjective/verb====


at the time of staying there
{{gfverb|དགའ་བ།|དགའ་བ།|དགའ་བ།||to be happy, glad|''v.i.''|ཐ་མི་དད་པ་}}
{{gsample|དགའ་སྤྲོ་|happy joyful|happy}}
* from: {{gtib|དགའ་བ་}} adjective, noun, verb:
joyful, happy; joy; to be happy, glad, pleased, to take joy in<br>


དེའི་ཚེ་ same as དེའི་ཚེ་ན་
{{gfverb|སྤྲོ་བ།|སྤྲོ་བ།|སྤྲོ་བ།||to be joyful<br>to enjoy|''v.i.''|ཐ་མི་དད་པ་}}
{{gsample|སྤྲོ་བ་|joyful|to be joyful, to enjoy}}
<br>
{{gsample|བོད་སྐད་|Tibet language|Tibetan language}}


that time            that time la don


at that (point in) time
====Noun - adjective====
 
{{grule|A noun-adjective combination becomes either just a noun with an adjective (see: [[" adjectives"]]) or a new word.}}
 
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1.3 in compound words
 
See also "Formation of the Tibetan Words - compounded nouns".
 
1.3.1 adjective/verb - adjective/verb
 
དགའ་སྤྲོ་
 
happy joyful
 
happy
 
from:
དགའ་བ་ adjective, noun, verb དགའ་བ།  དགའ་བ།  དགའ་བ།  ༼ཐ་མི་དད་པ༽
joyful, happy; joy; to be happy, glad, pleased, to take joy in
and
སྤྲོ་བ་ verb སྤྲོ་བ།  སྤྲོ་བ།  སྤྲོ་བ།  ༼ཐ་མི་དད་པ༽
to be joyful, to enjoy
 
བོད་སྐད་
 
Tibet language
 
Tibetan language
 
1.3.3 noun - adjective
This combination becomes either just a noun with an adjective (see: " adjectives") or a new word


གཏིང་ཟབ་  
གཏིང་ཟབ་  

Revision as of 02:47, 30 March 2011

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

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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

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.

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Endnotes