Core Paradigm Sentences Flashcards
བདེན་པར་ཡོད་པ
Truly existent [true-2nd-existent] Adverbial
གངས་རི་སྔོན་པོར་སྣང
Snow mountains appear to be blue.
[snow-mountain-blue-2nd-appear]
2nd Case Compliment of Intransitive (Nominative) Verb
སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་མར་ཤེས་
[They] understand all beings to be [their] mothers
[sentient beings-all-mother-2nd-know]
2nd Case Compliment of Transitive (Agentive) Verb
མདོ་རྣམས་ལས་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པར་གསུངས།
[Buddha] said in sutras that all phenomena lack identity.
[sutras-5th-phenomena-all-entity-own-not-2nd-said]
2nd Case Compliment of Transitive (Agentive) Verb
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་བསྟན་
Buddha taught the doctrine.
[Buddha-3rd-doctrine-taught]
1st Case Object of Transitive Verb
བུམ་པ་མི་རྟག་པ་ཡིན་
Pots are impermanent
[pot-impermanent-is]
1st Case Subject of Verb To Be (Linking Verb)
ང་ལ་བུམ་པ་ཡོད་
I have [a] pot
[I-7th-pot-have]
1st Case Object of Verb “To Have”
སངས་རྒྱས་ལ་མཆོད་པ་ཕུལ།
They offer worship to the Buddhas
[Buddha-4th-worship-offer]
2nd Case Indirect Object
ཁོས་མིག་གིས་གཟུགས་ལ་བལྟས།
He looked at forms with [his] eye[s]
[he-3rd-eyes-3rd-forms-2nd-looked]
2nd Case Object of Transitive (3-2) Verb
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་གར་ལ་ཆོས་བསྟན།
Buddha taught the doctrine in India
[Buddha-3rd-India-2nd-doctrine-taught]
2nd Case Place of Activity
འཁོར་ལོ་འཁོར་རོ།
[The] wheel turns
[wheel-turn-terminator]
1st Case Subject of Intransitive Verb (Action Verb)
བུམ་པ་ཡོད།
Pots exist
[pot-is/are]
1st Case Subject of Verb “To Exist”
འབྲས་པུ་རྒྱུ་ལ་རྟེན་ནོ།
Effects depend on causes
[effect-cause-7th-depend-terminator]
1st Case Subject of Verb of Dependence
ཆོས་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཏུ་གནས།
[The] dharma remains in the world
[dharma-world-2nd-remain]
1st Case Subject of Verb of Living
རང་ཉིད་གཅིག་བུ་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་འགྲོ་
One alone goes to the next world
[one-alone-world-next-2nd-go]
1st Case Subject of Verb of Motion
