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། །.
Example
དགེ་འདུན་ནི་ས་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའོ། ། |
sangha bhumi stay bodhisattva |
The sangha are the bodhisattvas, [who] reside on the bhumis. |