LessonHOne [་7 — ༡༧
he pema is╱
He is Pema.
d. ནོར་ ་བུ་དགེ་རྒན་ཡིན་པ་རེད། [རྒན་ (rgan) isa complex syllable that includesai̅2 —slot letter ("r")
that i s di scussed i n LessonTwo. For the time bei ng treat it
asif རྒན་ were written གན་.] i̅ i̅ i̅
nɔ̲ɔ̲bu ge̲gɛn y i̲mbəreè [ཡིན་ is pronouncedyim rather than yin here because it is part
of a disyllabic compxound which is followed immediately
by the letter པ་ Thi s i s discussed i n Lesson Two. Note also
that the "a" vowel i n པ་ is pronounced bə rather than ba. i̅
Thi s is common after an "i" vowel and is also discussed i n
། i̅ Lesson Two.]
norbu teacher is╱
Norbu is a teacher.
ཡིན་པ་རེད་ and རེད་ actually have slightly different connotations. When a writeri̅uses
ཡིན་པ་རེད་ rather than རེད་ he conveys to thereader that he is l essi̅certaini̅about the validity
or what he is wri ti ng. Se ntence d. conveys the i dea that "it is sai d"་ or ''it seem s he is a
teacher." The writer, therefore, throughi̅the use of ཡིན་པ་རེད་ , is expressi ng some
uncertai nty about whether "h e" (the subject) i s really a teacher. However, at thi s stage of
learni ng Ti betan, both ot these will be translated the sam e.
Secondi̅person statements are constructed the same as the third person
constructions cited above. i̅ ། i̅།[ ]་̅
e. ཁྱེད་ ར་ ང་ ནོར་ བུ་རེད། [ཁྱེད་ i s a type of complexi̅syllable (k hyed) that wi ll be di scussed
inLesson Two. For the time being simply treat it as བེད་ and
་ pronounce it kē.]
kēraŋ nɔ̲ɔ̲bure̲è
you norbu is╱
V ་ ou are Norbu.
i̅Word order i n li nki ng sentences, therefore, nornmally follows the ruleSubject + ་
Object + ་ Verb.
i̅The subject of a linki ng sentence is usually not marked (or identified by another
particle) but it can be, as we see ini̅the followi ng examples where the particle ནི་
(meani ng roughly "as—for") identifi es the subject.
f. ཞིང་པ་ནི་བོད་པ་རེད།
shi̲ŋbəni pö̲bare̲è
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