Week 8: Plural particles Flashcards
1
Q
The four main plural particles are ______.
A
དག་ རྣམས་ ཅག་ ཚོ་
2
Q
The most used plural particle in colloquial Tibetan is _____.
A
ཚོ་
3
Q
The most used plural particles in Classical Tibetan are ____ and ____.
A
དག་ and རྣམས་
4
Q
What is the function of a plural particle?
A
To pluralize the preceding word or word cluster.
5
Q
Are plural particles required to read a plural meaning?
A
No. Plural particles are often omitted in Tibetan.
6
Q
སངས་རྒྱས་
A
Buddha
7
Q
སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་
A
buddhas
8
Q
བདག་
A
I, me
9
Q
བདག་ཅག་ or བདག་ཅག་རྣམས་
A
we
10
Q
དེ་
A
that
11
Q
དེ་དག་
A
those
12
Q
སློབ་མ་
A
student
13
Q
སློབ་མ་རྣམས་
A
students
14
Q
ཆོས་
A
dharma/phenomenon
15
Q
ཆོས་རྣམས་
A
dharmas/phenomena
