Tibetan Colloquial Disclaimer
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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!
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.