Tibetan/Verbs

Bya tshig The sentence structure is: Subject+object+verb Copula Essential egophoric 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 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 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 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 In general the suffixes for to create infinitives is pa or wa 25px25px25px25pxRootInfinitiveRead LokTo readLok paGo DoTo goDo waHear NyenTo hearNyen paEat SaTo eatSa wa Present Da ta ba Nga di la kha po med I don't like it Past '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 Ma ong pa Nga zla ba ze mar phar bre yod I will pay you back next week Imperative The imperative is generally formed replacing the verb root with the central vowel change into an O Infinitive25px25pxImperative25px25pxTo do Dze 'paDo it!DzoTo let go Tang waLet go!TongTo get up Yar lang waGet up!Yar longTo eat To sa waEat!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. Infinitive25px25pxImperative25px25pxTo see Ta waSee!To dhangTo lead Ti waLead!Ti shok