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by Stefan J. E.
Particle ཡང་
- Note: For usage of ཡང་ as concessive particle, see: Concessive particle, "ornament gather particle", རྒྱན་སྡུད་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་, ཚིག་རྒྱན་
Adverb: "again", "further" at the beginning of sentence
| ཡང་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་མི་འོང་བར་མ་གསུམ་དང༌།་་་ དབྱེ་བ་ཡང་ཡོད་དོ།
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| pleasant unpleasant in between three divisions exist
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Further, [there] are also the divisions of the three of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral, and...
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In phrases "again"
| ཡང་ཡང་
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| again again
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over and over again, repeatedly, continually
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Indefinite pronouns
| སུ་ཡང་
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| who (animate)'
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anybody, whoever
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| ཅི་ཡང་
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| what, which (inanimate)'
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anything, whatever,
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| གང་ཡང་
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| who, what, which (animate + inanimate)'
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whoever, whatever
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Indefinite qualifier
| ནམ་ཡང་
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| when
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always, ever (or "never" with negated verb)
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| དུས་གང་དུ་ཡང་
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| time what
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always, "at whatever time"
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| to separate
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v.i.
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ཐ་མི་དད་པ་
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| བྲལ་བ།
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འབྲལ་བ།
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འབྲལ་བ།
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| past
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pres.
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fut.
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imp.
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| ནམ་ཡང་བྲལ་མ་གྱུར་ན་་་
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| ever separate not became (auxiliary)'
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If [one would] never become separated...
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