Case Marking Particles

Question 0

ཀྱི་

Answer 0

The 6th (Genetive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ད་ བ་ ས་

Question 1

གི་

Answer 1

The 6th (Genetive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ག་ ང་

Question 2

གྱི་

Answer 2

The 6th (Genetive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ན་ མ་ ར་ ལ་

Question 3

ི

Answer 3

The 6th (Genetive) Case, added to words ending in suffix འ་

Question 4

འི་

Answer 4

The 6th (Genetive) Case, added to the root of words having no suffix.

Question 5

ཡི་

Answer 5

The 6th (Genetive) Case used after words ending in suffix འ་ or having no suffix.

Question 9

གིས་

Answer 9

The 3rd (instrumental/Agentive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ག་ ང་

Question 10

ཀྱིས་

Answer 10

The 3rd (instrumental/Agentive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ད་ བ་ ས་

Question 11

གྱིས་

Answer 11

The 3rd (instrumental/Agentive) Case used in words ending with suffixes ན་ མ་ ར་ ལ་

Question 12

ས་

Answer 12

The 3rd (instrumental/Agentive) Case used to replace suffix འ་ or is added directly to the root of words having no suffix

Question 13

ཡིས་

Answer 13

The 3rd (instrumental/Agentive) Case used after suffix འ་ or after words having no suffix. 
NOTE: Sometimes ཡིས་ is used instead of ས་, most often in a verse where an extra syllable is needed for the purpose of meter.

Question 14

No Particle

Answer 14

The 1st case (Nominative) and 8th case (Vocative) do not use a particle

Question 15

ལ

Answer 15

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative). Can be used after any suffix or no suffix. NOTE: Spoken Tibetan almost always uses ལ when using a ལ་དོན་ particle.

Question 16

ན

Answer 16

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in the 7th case (Locative) only. Can be used after any suffix or with no suffix.

Question 17

སུ

Answer 17

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative) after the suffix ས

Question 18

ཏུ

Answer 18

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative) after the suffixes ག་ བ་ and second suffix ད་

Question 19

རུ

Answer 19

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative) after the suffix འ་ or after words with no suffix.

Question 20

དུ

Answer 20

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative) after the suffixes ང་ ད་ ན་ མ་ ར་ ལ་

Question 21

ར

Answer 21

La Dön (ལ་དོན་) Particle used in 2nd case (Accusative), 4th case (Dative), and 7th case (Locative), used to replace suffix འ་ or is added directly to the root of words with no suffix

Question 22

ནས་

Answer 22

5th case (Ablative), used regardless of suffix to separate or specify similar things or to express inclusion.

Question 23

ལས་

Answer 23

5th case (Ablative), used regardless of suffix to separate or specify dissimilar things.

Question 24

The 1st Case

Answer 24

The Nominative Case. Subject of an intransitive sentence, or direct object of a transitive sentence, etc.

Question 25

The 2nd Case

Answer 25

The Accusative/Objective Case. Direct object of some verbs, place where action occurs, destination of verb of motion, etc.

Question 26

The 3rd Case

Answer 26

The Instrumental/Agentive Case. Subject of a transitive verb, the means by which action is done, the doer or cause of an action, the reason for an action, etc.

Question 27

The 4th Case

Answer 27

The Dative Case. The beneficiary of, or purpose for an action, etc.

Question 28

The 5th Case

Answer 28

The Ablative Case. The source of something of means by which something is done, etc.

Question 29

The 6th Case

Answer 29

The Genetive Case. Connection between nouns and pronouns, adjectives, and nouns, apposition, etc.

Question 30

The 7th Case

Answer 30

The Locative Case. Place or time where someone or something exists of lives, the possessor, etc.

Question 31

The 8th Case

Answer 31

The Vocative Case. Interjections or calling to someone