Tibetan/Adjectives

Degree

Positive Good ཡག་པོ Yag po
Comparative Better ཡག་ག Yag ga
Superlative The best ཡག་ཤོས Yag sho
Positive Many མང་པ་ Mang po
Comparative More མང་ང Mang na
Superlative མང་ཤོས Mang sho
Positive Sour སྐྱུར་པོ Kyur po
Comparative More sour སྐྱུར་ར Kyur ra
Superlative The most sour སྐྱུར་ཤོས Kyur sho
Positive Fun སྐྱིད་པོ Kyid po
Comparative More fun སྐྱིད་བ Kyid ba
Superlative The most fun སྐྱིད་ཤོས Kyid sho
Positive Eminent དམ་པ Dam pa
Comparative More eminent དམ་པ Dam pa
Superlative The most eminent དམ་ཤས Dam sho
Positive Big ཆེན་པོ Tchen po
Comparative Bigger ཆེེན་བ Tchen ba
Superlative The biggest ཆེན་ཤོས Tchen sho
  • Bryu ru ni zi la khong chung ba yod
    • Coral is cheaper than dzi
  • Bu shel dang yu khong chung chung red
    • Amber and turquoise are cheap

We expresse feelings and emotions with adjectives.

  • Kyi po yin : I am happy
  • Khong thro sa wa yin : I am angry
  • Thang chhe pa yin : I am tired
  • Saem kyo wa yin : I am sad
  • Nyop pa yin : I am bored
  • Go khor wa yin : I am confused
  • Dro go tog pa yin : I am hungry