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Those are my personal summarized notes on the great work done by Franziska Oertle and the SINI Sarnath International Nyingma Institute. They are not revised by teachers and I might have understood the material incorrectly. Also you will miss on the examples to illustrate the grammar points. Therefore they are not intended to be read on its own since it might confuse you. Some notes might not even be officially part of the material but reflections from our meetings!

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To say sentences like I did as much as I could. we use གང་ + repeating first syllable of the adjective (or verb) twice.

ང་སློབ་སྦྱོང་གང་ཡག་ཡག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད། I study as well as I can (adjective)
ངས་སློང་མཁན་ལ་དངུལ་གང་ཡོད་ཡོད་སྤྲད་པ་ཡིན།; I gave the beggar as much as I had (verb)
ཁོང་གིས་ང་ཚོ་ལ་རོགས་པ་གང་ཐུབ་ཐུབ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་འདུག; He helps us as much as he can (verb)
ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་གང་ཤེས་ཤེས་ཞུས་པ་ཡིན།; I told you all I knew (lit. as much as I know) (h) (verb)