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A SKELETON GRAMMAR
ADJECTIVES
18. Adjectives are generally put after substantives as in French; 121 mi 'man' and nan 'bad', when these are used together we
e.g.
have mi.nan, ‘a bad man'.
Sometimes an adjective is used before a substantive, and in that case it is often put in the genitive case ; e. g. བཟང bzaá or བཟང་པོ bzań. po 'good' and mi 'man', we may put them together as
བཟང་མི bzaá.mi, or བཟང་པོའིི ི་མི bzaáń. pohi. mi 'agood man.’
cag, or
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PRONOUNS
19. Each of the personal pronouns has several forms, only a few of them are given here:
First person: na, bdag, ned (hon.) 'T'. Second person: khyod, khyed (hon.) 'you'.
Third person: kho,
khon (hon.) 'he', 'she,' 'it'.
words as ཉིད id,
20. Reflexive personal pronouns are formed by adding such etc.; e.g.
ང་ཉིད ia. nid, ང་རང་ ia.rai,
'myself'.
21. The plural number of personal pronouns are formed also by adding 34 cag, and 3 cag.rnams; e.g. བདག་ཅག bdag. bdag.cag.rnams 'we'.
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རང
ran,
