Possessor particle, བདག་སྒྲ་

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9. Originative case

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12. Syntactic particles

by Stefan J. E.

• Chapter overview: Tibetan Grammar - Syntactic particles

Possessor particles

• བདག་སྒྲ་, term of the owner

See Tibetan Grammar - Formation of the Tibetan Word, Usage of པ་, བ་, མ་, པོ་, བོ་, མོ་.

From the Great Tibetan Chinese Dictionary:

བོད་རྒྱ་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་: བདག་སྒྲ། མིང་གི་མ་མཐར་གང་ཟག་མཚོན་པར་བྱད་པའི་སྒྲ་སྔར་མེད་པ་ལ་གསར་དུ་པ་པོ་དང་མ་མོ་སྦྱར་བས་རིམ་བཞིན་ཕོ་དང་མོར་གོ་དགོས།

བདག་སྒྲ་: The owner particle: by joining པ་, པོ, མ and མོ newly to the the right side of a word where they were not before [it] shows / indicates a person [who is the ownerof or in control of or in conection with the thing or activity indicated by the word itself]. Male and female [persons] have to be understood respectively [from པ་, པོ and མ, མོ]."

རྟ་པ་ horse horseman

ལྷ་ས་པ་ Lhasa person from Lhasa

ཆོས་ཉན་པ་པོ་ Dharma listen to the Dharma-listener