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ག་པར་ག་པར། sounds ག་བར་ག་བར།
Khawa Khawa! What are you talking about 😉
Strange Agent Particle In Comparison needs-teacher
Why do we have an agent particle in ཁྱེད་རང་གི་སྤུ་གུས་རི་བོང་ནང་བཞིན་མཆོང་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་འདུག་ག, is it because it is often dropped? ངའི་ལུང་པའི་ཞིང་པ་དེ་ཚོ་ལས་བོད་ཀྱི་འབྲོག་པ་དེ་ཚོས་གཡག་ལ་སོགས་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་མང་བ་གསོ་གི་ཡོད་རེད་པ།
གང་ཤེས། sounds “cangsh”
Another interesting pronunciation gotcha! When saying I don’t know we can say cangshhhh.
Writing the Sound of a Single Consonant
རྦད་དེ་ is another case like The Sound of ཟེ་! In Nepali I know you can split the accompanying implicit vowel the letters bring by using a halant: क = ka, क् = k. Tibetan doesn’t have this so it seems that the convention of using the consonant with a འགྲེང་བུ།
Easter in Tibetan
འདས་ལོག་ཆགས།
འདས་པ། to transcend, to pass beyond
ལོག་པ། to return
འདས་ལོག resurrection
Ranting About Phonetic Dictionary
I still believe a Tibetan Phonetic Lookup Dictionary would be དཔེ་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོང་གྱ་རེད་པ། Franziska-la dropped a new word in the Webinar “tail” nāma (spot the high tone). It’s hard to search among the many possible spellings. I would like to type it as highlighted and get all the found spellings for it so I can iterate until I find the word as opposed to letting it go བློས་གཏོང་འདོད་མེད་ད། I have to work on my འདོད་ཆགས།
Tibetan “Being Grateful” Strange Grammar
It’s funny when wanting to express you are grateful (བཀའ་དྲིན་) to someone you place the ལ་དོན། to yourself!
ང་ལ་ལུག་ནག་པོ་ལགས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེ་དྲགས་ཡིན།
Franziska-la gives us the mnemonic of thinking of being kind to as opposed to being grateful, and the ཡིན། would still work because despite speaking of someone else (non-egophoric) it still has a strong effect or relation to you.
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འདྲ་པོ་ and ནང་བཞིན་
I must be aware when to use འདྲ་པོ་ instead of ནང་བཞིན་ because it’s not replaceable everywhere! Only when the meaning conveyed is like X instead of as much as X. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ཨ་ཅག་ལགས་ཁྱེད་རང་འདྲ་པོ་ཤ་མེད་རེད་པས། You would not say ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ཨ་མ་ལགས་འདྲ་པོ་ཁ་ལག་ཞིམ་པོ་བཟོ་གི་འདུག་གས།
Other Meaning for ནང་བཞིན་
Franziska-la in the minute 43:54 of the Lesson 17’s webinar says བློ་བཟང་དོན་གྲུབ་ནང་བཞིན་བོད་ཡིག་ཡག་པོ་ཀློག་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་རེད། can either mean:
- Just like Dhondrup, Lobsang knows how to read Tibetan
- Lobsang knows to read Tibetan as well as Dhondrup .
But with this example I get confused:
ངའི་རྨོ་ལགས་ནང་བཞིན་ཁོང་གི་ཨ་མ་ལགས་ཕྱག་མང་པོ་འཚལ་གྱི་ཡོད་མ་རེད།
This sentence means “Her mom doesn’t prostrate as much as my grandmother”. But how would I express “Just like my grandmother, her mom doesn’t prostate a lot”. I would use the same words… But then the meaning conveyed is difference.
The problem we find here is that I don’t know how to distinguish between:
- When we are equating in that they both don’t do something.
- When we are negating equation, therefore bringing implicit comparison.
Answer: The answer is not set in stone, nor solid enough to systematize. By not emphasizing and reading plain the sentence the meaning might be more like the second one: Just like my grandmother, her mom doesn’t prostate a lot — therefore: equality. But here’s some observations that can help us lead to the meaning we want to convey:
- Using འདྲ་པོ་ might help denote equality. But still might require emphasis or context.
- Emphasis: By applying emphasis on the ངའི་རྨོ་ལགས་ when speaking can help clarify the རྨོ་ལགས་ prostrates more than the ཨ་མ་ལགས་
- Context: By continuing the sentence with a remark on the རྨོ་ལགས་ can help describe the རྨོ་ལགས་ really is different in regards of the action that’s related.
The Sound of ཟེ་
I added a note on the notes on Reported Speech after Franziska Oertle mentioned something that satisfied my curiosity about the short s sound that’s used in reported speech:
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The ཟེ་ doesn’t pronounce really the e when spoken, but since in Tibetan there’s no way to write a consonant that doesn’t sound with a vowel, it’s as close as we can get.
Notes from Lesson 17’s Key-Point Video
- Honorific Head Pronunciation: དབུ། sounds u, not bu!
- Tibetans say དང་ཤོས། (the very first) sometimes instead of དང་པོ་ (first)! “firstest”!