Bya tshig

The sentence structure is:

Subject+object+verb

Copula

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Essential egophoric

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ང་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

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ཁྱེད་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

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Yes/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?
  • འདི་ཁ་པར་རེད་པས
    • Di kha par red pa
      • Is this a phone?

Negative questions

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  • འདི་ཁ་པར་མ་རེད་པས
    • Di kha par ma red pa
      • Isn't this a phone?
  • ཁྱེད་རང་མཚོ་མོ་མིན་པས
    • Khyed rang Tchomo min pa
      • Aren't you Tsomo?

Infinitive

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In 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

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Da ta ba

  • Nga di la kha po med
    • I don't like it

Past

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'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

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Ma ong pa

  • Nga zla ba ze mar phar bre yod
    • I will pay you back next week

Imperative

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The 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