Tibetan Although

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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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Similarly as it happens with Tibetan Because there’s two was to expose a contradiction to a fact that would be expected otherwise:

• ཁོང་བོད་པ་རེད། ཡིན་ནའི་བོད་ཇ་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་མ་རེད།
• ཁོང་བོད་པ་ཡིན་ནའི་བོད་ཇ་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་མ་རེད།
• ཁོང་བོད་པ་ཡིན་ན་ཡང་བོད་ཇ་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་མ་རེད།

With full verbs in present tense there are two choices:

• “Even though he is not working these days, he is extremely busy.”
  • Specific: དེང་སང་ཁོང་ལས་ཀ་མ་བྱེད་ན་ཡང་བྲལ་བ་ཚ་པོ་ཞེ་དྲགས་འདུག
  • General: དེང་སང་ཁོང་ལས་ཀ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་མེད་ན་ཡང་བྲལ་བ་ཚ་པོ་ཞེ་དྲགས་འདུག

CAUTION

Note བྱེད་ is in the present tense form! Not as it would happen with the conditional ན་, which would be in the past form.