Dzongkha and English/Contrastive Grammar
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Grammatical Differences
Adding Possessive or Genitive Suffix to Nouns
Adding Case Suffixes to Nouns
Locative
- (dzo) སྒྲོམ་ནང་ → (eng) in the box
- (dzo) སྒྲོམ་<n><loc> → (eng) in<prp> a<det><def> box<n><sg>
- (dzo) དུས་ཚོད་ཁར་ → (eng) on time
- (dzo) དུས་ཚོད་<n><loc> → (eng) on<prp> time<n><sg>
Ablative
- (dzo) རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ → (eng) from the ocean
- (dzo) རྒྱ་མཚོ་<n><abl> → (eng) from<prp> a<det><def> ocean<n><sg>
- (dzo) ང་ལས་ → (eng) from me
- (dzo) ང་<prn><p1><sg><abl> → (eng) from<prp> me<prn><p1><sg>
Adding Tense Suffix to Verbs
Past Tense
- (dzo) ལྷོད་ཅི་ → (eng) arrived
- (dzo) ལྷོད་<v><iv><past> → (eng) arrived<v><iv><past>