Tibetan Colloquial Disclaimer
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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.
Regularly means only, merely
- ཁམས་གསུམ་སེམས་ཙམ་མོ།། The three realms are merely [a manifestation of] mind.
- མི་བརྒྱ་ཙམ། About 100 people.
But after the root of an adjective it means a bit more X.
Pronunciation
ཙམ་ doesn’t get pronounced fully, often you hear a little “ts” to the preceeding adjective. E.g. མགྱོགས་ཙ་ means a bit faster.
མོ་ཊ་མགྱོགས་ཙམ་གཏོང་རོགས་གནང་། Please drive the car a bit faster! (H)
ཙམ་ By merely
When added to a verb in the past tense it means by only… or merely having done X….
བློ་བསང་གིས་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལགས་ཐེངས་མ་གཅིག་མཐོང་བ་ཙམ་གྱིས་རྦད་དེ་སེམས་པ་ཤོར་སོང་། By only seeing Dolma-la once, Lobsang fell completely in love with her.