A Grammar of the Tibetan Language

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: …to be there, to be to one. signifies I am, I exist, or l do exist. Observations: By the aid of these two substantive verbs (and their equivalents: Q58, uglw, aaiw, arm, um, Iraq. as, ifs, aim, aw, 1:, near: see 156.) as also by that of the two auxiliary verbs 53 and Qgl, which will be described hereafter, (see 171, 172, ) may be formed and conjugated all the tenses of the verbal roots; as also of every verb in the Tibetan language. The conjugation of Tibetan verbs is very simple; it is little else than a participial variation; and much resembles the following mode of English conjugation: Indicat. pres. I (thou, he, she, they, ) going, =.’Q’-iJ1:1, or QE1/, Imperfect. I was going, G QilQ3Il’l. Instead of QE;/Q, which is obsolete, as a perf. tense or participle; but as a verbal noun, signifying gait, or the manner of going, it is in continual use. variation, the imperative and hortative being formed by Itfifi; the rest is supplied by the two auxiliary verbs ‘l1, and Q9 1’11. ttons: speaking of himself, or of others, before a great personage, and has the following varia AA, _, The other tenses are.supplied by the before-named auxiliarygverbs (Q5 and Qgl), and by the particles or articles enumerated with them. l t PARTlcu=L1r.s. 176.. The participles (present, perfect, and future), belong to the class of nouns and adjectives. Among the verbs they form the roots of the indicative present, perfeet, and future tenses;. as, Q, EN, 3’5. A As nouns they may all be used substantively; as, 5’11, speaking or a speaking; gsrq, spoken, a spoken thing, he that has spoken; 1’5, about to speak, he that will speak, a thing to be said or spoken of. ‘ 177. The present and perfect participles, terminate…