Grammar of colloquial Tibetan - learning tibetan

98 TIBETAN GRAMMAR.
10. Reciprocal Pronouns.
—
Each other, oxe another,
are expressed hj ^^^^]^'^^^^\' chi-chi, e.g., ^^ZJ^'^^^V^]^:^'
^1^2^'Klf C;^'E;' (^'j ^^1
Jcho-rang-tsho chiJc-lci-chi dnny-
nga-rc, they beat each other. (Lit. hy one to one, they
heat).
11. Demonstrative Pronouns,
—
This is rendered by
CU\' di and that by ^' te, but when either this or that refers
to a noun previously mentioned ^' t'e is used, e.g., ^^^
^'^S 1 ^^ yaJc-'po re, this one (previously mentioned) is good.
Both Q>^' and ST* follow the noun or adjective which they
qualify, and take the case-inflection instead of the noun or
adjective. They are also used by themselves, apart from
nouns, e.g., the example just given, and Q^'C^Q.'ys|(3; ! di nge
yin, this is mine.
12. Other demonstrative pronouns in common use are
Qc'i^C;' di-rang, this very, ^'^C t'e-mng, that very, emphatic
forms of this and that respectively, also ^'^* ta-Ka and
Jn'STI'^C t'a-Jca-rany, with the same meaning ; e.g., Is this
the very man that I SAW YESTERDAY? S^'Q^^'p^'^'C^^'^I^C^'C^'
(i^') ^'-^C^'-^^'^^ I
"^"^i dihhe-sa ngt' thong-nga t'e-rang re-
pe ? Yes, it is the very same. (^^n^'^'^j'^C'^^ ]
l(i ta-Ha-
rang re. Also, y^'^1* ya-gi,i:R\T up there, ^W ma-gi, that