Dzongkha and English/Contrastive Grammar
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Adding Locative Suffixes to Nouns
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>
Adding Ablative Suffixes to Nouns
Context-sensitive addition of words:
- (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 "to be" Verbs
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<prp> 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>
Determiner After Noun
Rearranging word order:
- (dzo) བྱི་ལི་དེ་ → (eng) the cat
- (dzo) བྱི་ལི<n> དེ་<det><def> → (eng) the<det><def> cat<n><sg>