Tibetan/Verbs

Bya tshig

The sentence structure is:

Subject+object+verb

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 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

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

Howerer, there are cases in wicht tang  or dhang must be annexing to the verbal root. Others words take the preffix shok to create the imperative.