Dzongkha and English/Contrastive Grammar

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Grammatical Differences

Adding Possessive or Genitive Suffix to Nouns

Adding Case Suffixes to Nouns

Dative

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  • (dzo) མོ་ལུ་ → (eng) to her
    (dzo) མོ་<prn><p3><sg><f><dat> → (eng) to<prp> her{<prn><p3><sg><f>

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
    {{transferMorphTest|dzo|eng|རྒྱ་མཚོ་<n><abl>|from<prp> a<det><def} ocean<tt style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-size: 90%; color: #7a7a7a;"><<b style="color: black;">n><sg> </b>></tt>

Adding Tense Suffix to Verbs

Adding "to be" Verbs

Article After Noun

dzo-eng tests