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| − | * Generalization rule: ཕྱག་/hand belongs to the the subcategory {{tag|hn}} in {{tag|n}}, so it is only realized when a word that falls in the "honorific" category is | + | * Generalization rule: ཕྱག་/hand belongs to the the subcategory {{tag|hn}} in {{tag|n}}, so it is only realized when a word that falls in the "honorific" category is near ཕྱག་. Else, it will be realized as ཕྱག་/prostrate. |
=== Case III === | === Case III === | ||
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Case I
མཐུ་ → bewitchment/black magic, power
Example sentences:
| Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
|---|---|
| ཁོ་གི་མཐུ་རྐྱབ་འོང་ | He might do black magic. |
| སྨན་གྱི་མཐུ་ | The power of medicine. |
- Generalization rule: མཐུ་/black magic is usually followed by closely related words like casting(do), spell, witchcraft. If a word that is closely related to this meaning is near མཐུ་, it will be realized as black magic. Else, by default it would be realized as power.
Case II
ཕྱག་ → honorific of hand, prostrate
Example sentences:
| Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
|---|---|
| ཕྱག་འཚལ་གེ་ | Let (us) prostrate. |
| ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ | Bestowed from (their) hand. |
- Generalization rule: ཕྱག་/hand belongs to the the subcategory <hn> in <n>, so it is only realized when a word that falls in the "honorific" category is near ཕྱག་. Else, it will be realized as ཕྱག་/prostrate.
Case III
འཐེན་ → verbal message, pull
Example sentences:
| Dzongkha Sentence | English Translation |
|---|---|
| ཞབས་ཁྲ་འཐེན་ནི་ | (We) will sing. |
| ཐགཔ་འཐེན་ནི་ | (We) will pull the rope. |
- Generalization rule: འཐེན་/pull is realized their exists an object of the sentence and falls in the "pull-able" category. འཐེན་/sing is realized otherwise.
