Difference between revisions of "Dzongkha and English/Contrastive Grammar"

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Context-sensitive addition of words:

(dzo) སྒྲོམ་ནང་ → (eng) in the box
(dzo) སྒྲོམ་<n><loc> → (eng) in<pr> a<det><def> box<n><sg>

(dzo) དུས་ཚོད་ཁར་ → (eng) on time
(dzo) དུས་ཚོད་<n><loc> → (eng) on<pr> time<n><sg>

Context-sensitive addition of words:

(dzo) རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ → (eng) from the ocean
(dzo) རྒྱ་མཚོ་<n><abl> → (eng) from<pr> a<det><def> ocean<n><sg>

(dzo) ང་ལས་ → (eng) from me
(dzo) ང་<prn><p1><sg><abl> → (eng) from<pr> me<prn><p1><sg>

Move <vbser> from the end of the sentence to the end of a noun phrase.

(dzo) བྱི་ལི་དེ་སྒྲོམ་ནང་འདུག་ → (eng) The cat is in the box.
(dzo) བྱི་ལི<n> དེ་<det><def> སྒྲོམ་<n><loc> འདུག་<vbser> → (eng) the<det><def> cat<n><sg> is<vbser> in<pr> the<det><def> box<n><sg>

(dzo) ཁོ་དགེ་སློང་མེན་ → (eng) He is not a monk.
(dzo) ཁོ་<prn><p3><sg><m> དགེ་སློང་<n><sg> མེན་<vbser><neg> → (eng) He<prn><p3><sg><m> is<vbser> not<neg> a<def><det> monk<n><sg>

Rearranging word order:

(dzo) བྱི་ལི་དེ་ → (eng) the cat
(dzo) བྱི་ལི<n> དེ་<det><def> → (eng) the<det><def> cat<n><sg>

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 Move {{tag|vbser}} from the end of the sentence to the end of a noun phrase.
 * {{transferTest|dzo|eng|བྱི་ལི་དེ་སྒྲོམ་ནང་འདུག་|The cat is in the box.}}
-*: {{transferMorphTest|dzo|eng|བྱི་ལི{{tag|n}} དེ་{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} སྒྲོམ་{{tag|n}}{{tag|loc}} འདུག་{{tag|vbser}}|the{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} cat{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg}} is{{tag|vbser}} in{{tag|prp}} the{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} box{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg}} }}
+*: {{transferMorphTest|dzo|eng|བྱི་ལི{{tag|n}} དེ་{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} སྒྲོམ་{{tag|n}}{{tag|loc}} འདུག་{{tag|vbser}}|the{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} cat{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg}} is{{tag|vbser}} in{{tag|pr}} the{{tag|det}}{{tag|def}} box{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg}} }}
 * {{transferTest|dzo|eng|ཁོ་དགེ་སློང་མེན་|He is not a monk.}}