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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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In Tibetan syllables have meanings. For instance ཉོབ་ would mean “bored”, or “upset about”. In this case it can be used as a verb ཉོབ་པ།, “to be bored”.

If you want to describe the feeling of boredom, you would use ཉོབ་སྣང་།

With this then you could say “to feel bored” (or if you want to get very literal “to arise the feeling of boredom”) ཉོབ་སྣང་སྐྱེས་པ། In here སྐྱེས། (the past of སྐྱེ།) means “to give birth”, so it makes sense to say that feeling was born in you! But also ཚོར་ can be used, which is used to verbalize feeling nouns, but I heard that it has the implication to be very physiological.