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Those are my personal distilled notes on the great work done on colloquial Tibetan by Franziska Oertle and the SINI Sarnath International Nyingma Institute. They are not revised by teachers and might confuse you unless you are familiarized with the course material. I recommend you to not use these notes independently unless you have been exposed to the material before.

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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.