Grammar of colloquial Tibetan - learning tibetan

56 TIBETAN GRAMMAR.
POUR; p'r^^'S^^'^^' Jchon-tsho hiU-yong, they will potje.
Neither the present nor the future root is used with y^[^'
in this sense^ e.(^. I will buy C^^'^^J'CXJC^' T nge nyo-yong, not
C^'^^'L^C^' I
nge nyo-yong. I will do this work C^^'O^^'TI'
^^^^ l^-'^'ci' di cKe yong ga^' the ; perfect root is
^S'3^*^^' I
used^ not H^ the present root^ nor ^' the future root. The
ICE will melt rapidly. ]5^'^'^^^^'^'^(5)^'^^' [ Ichyak-
pa gyoTi-po sHii-yong. Here again the perfect root ^^2^' sKil
is used, not (S' sliu, the present root, nor ^\^' sKu, the future
root.
12. Imperative* — In literary Tibetan many verbs have
a separate root for the imperative as well as for the present,
future and perfect tenses, and such roots are given in general
dictionaries. But in the colloquial the imperative is usually
the present or perfect root of the verb. When the root con-
tains an inherent a or this is often changed to ; e.g.
5^£T]'f^^' miJc-fo, LOOK !
Send this man !
Buy this thing !
from
present root ^' ta.
^'Q^'2T|!^I^' |
rJS'^^'^^'*^^ I
mi di tong}