Tibetan/Verbs
Bya tshig
The sentence structure is:
Subject+object+verb
Copula
editEssential egophoric
editང་བོད་པ་ཡིན།
- Nga bod pa yin
- I am Tibetan.
The negative form is with the word Min.
ང་དབིན་ཇི་པ་མིན།
- Nga bin ji pa min
- I am not an Englisman.
Existencial testimonial
editཁྱེད་རང་དགེ་རྒན་རེད།
- Khyed rang ge gan red
- You are a teacher.
The negative form is with the word Ma red.
ཁ་པར་སེར་པོ་མ་རེག།
- Kha par ser po ma red
- The phone don't is yellow.
Asking questions
editYes/no question are formed by adding the question mark པས (pa) to the end of the verb. Examples:
- ཁོང་བོད་པ་རེད་པས།
- Khong bod pa red pa
- Is he Tibetan?
- Khong bod pa red pa
- འདི་ཁ་པར་རེད་པས།
- Di kha par red pa
- Is this a phone?
- Di kha par red pa
Negative questions
edit- འདི་ཁ་པར་མ་རེད་པས།
- Di kha par ma red pa
- Isn't this a phone?
- Di kha par ma red pa
- ཁྱེད་རང་མཚོ་མོ་མིན་པས།
- Khyed rang Tchomo min pa
- Aren't you Tsomo?
- Khyed rang Tchomo min pa
Infinitive
editIn general the suffixes for to create infinitives is pa or wa
Root | Infinitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
Read | Lok | To read | Lok pa |
Go | Do | To go | Do wa |
Hear | Nyen | To hear | Nyen pa |
Eat | Sa | To eat | Sa wa |
Present
editDa ta ba
- Nga di la kha po med
- I don't like it
Past
edit'da pa
There are several ways of expressing the past tense, the most common is with the suffixes chung, tong, and chin.
- Nga na ning lor nyi hong la yül kor chin pa yin.
- I traveled to Japón last year.
Future
editMa ong pa
- Nga zla ba ze mar phar bre yod
- I will pay you back next week
Imperative
editThe imperative is generally formed replacing the verb root with the central vowel change into an O
Infinitive | Imperative | ||
---|---|---|---|
To do | Dze 'pa | Do it! | Dzo |
To let go | Tang wa | Let go! | Tong |
To get up | Yar lang wa | Get up! | Yar long |
To eat | To sa wa | Eat! | To so |
However, there are cases in which tang or dhang must be annexing to the verbal root. Others words take the prefix shok to create the imperative.
Infinitive | Imperative | ||
---|---|---|---|
To see | Ta wa | See! | To dhang |
To lead | Ti wa | Lead! | Ti shok |