Tibetan/Nouns

མིང་ཚིག Ming tshig Honorific forms Many nouns and verbs have honorific forms called she sa. 20px20pxNounCommon HonorificPhoneཁ་པརKha parཞེལ་པརShe parTeacherདགེ་རྒནGe ganརྒན་ལགསGan lagBookདེབDebཕྱག་དབphyag deb Declensions Here we have the declension of the noun house (Nang) CasesSingularPluralNominative NangNang tsh'oGenitive Nang giNang tsho iDative Nang laNang tsho iAccusative NangNang tsh'oLocative Nang laNang tsho iAgentive Nang giNang tsho iAblative Nang neNang tsho ne Genitive Case The last sound of the noun determines the genitive suffix. The following rules determine the appropiate suffixes: Last soundSuffix-'a -'i-g or -ng -gi-n, -m, -r or -l -gyi-d, -b or -s -kyi Agentive Case The rules for which suffix to use are as follows; Last soundSuffix-'a -s-g or -ng-gis-n, -m, -r or -l -gyis or -kyis Ablative བོད་ནས། Bod na From Tibet. རྒྱ་གར་ནས། Gya gar na From India. ཡུ་རོབ་ནས། Yu rob na From Europe. In sentences: ཁོང་ཡུ་རོབ་ནས་རེད། Khong yu rob na red She is from Europe. ཁྱེད་རང་རྒྱ་གར་ནས་ཡིན་པས། Khyed rang gya gar na yin pa Are you from India? ང་བོད་ནས་མ་རེད་པས། Nga bod na ma red pa Am not I from Tibet?