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A SKELETON GRAMMAR
or the past tense is used for it ; e. g. 2597 hdug, do sit ; son (past of BB' hgro ba). ‘go away'. (b) Sometimes the vowel of a root is changed ; c. 8. I zo, do cat' from 3 za or 79 za.ba 'to eat'. (c) Sometimes it is formed from the infinitive by adding to it IT $gyur.cig, 1977 sog, or 77891 sog. cig: e. g. 47°47"] 34 ses.par.gyur.cig, Skt. jānātu, 'let him know'.
35. The conditional is formed by adding ý na to the form of the present or past tense ; e. g. from 35 byed, Skt. kr 'to do 399 byed. na, Skt. yadi karoti “if he would do'; 30 g byas na, Skt. lit. krte sati, 'it being done'. .
36 Verbal roots that are preceded by ḥ and based on the following ten radical letters from their present, past, and future tenses and the imperative differently causing many irregularities : P kh, 8; och, Ej; 9th, 5 d ; 4 ph, ab ; . tsh, dz. The forms are shown in the following ten tables in which the reader is advised to note the changes of the sounds :
No. 1
Present
Future
Imp.
Verb འཁལ་བ
འཁལ
བཀལ་ཟིན
བཀལ
ཁོལ
hkhal.ba 'to spin
hkhal
bkal.zin
bkal
khol.
