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== dzo → eng ==

=== Case I === 
མཐུ་ → bewitchment/witchcraft, power

Example sentences:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
|-
| ཁོ་གི་'''མཐུ'''་རྐྱབ་འོང་ ||  He might do '''witchcraft'''.
|-
| སྨན་གྱི་'''མཐུ'''་ ||  The '''power''' of medicine. 
|}

* Generalization rule: མཐུ་/black magic is usually followed by closely related words like casting(do), spell, dark magic. If a word that is closely related to this meaning is near མཐུ་, it will be realized as witchcraft. Else, by default, it would be realized as power.

=== Case II === 

ཕྱག་ → honorific of hand, prostrate

Example sentences:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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 {{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 === 

འཐེན་ → verbal message, pull

Example sentences:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dzongkha Sentence !! English Translation
|-
| ཞབས་ཁྲ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་ || (We) will '''sing'''. 
|-
| ཐགཔ་'''འཐེན'''་ནི་|| (We) will '''pull''' the rope. 
|}

* Generalization rule: འཐེན་/sing is realized if it is preceded by the noun ཞབས་ཁྲ་/song. འཐེན་/pull is realized otherwise.

== Additions == 
* All three rules are implemented. 

[[Category:Sp21_LexicalSelection]] [[Category: Dzongkha]] [[ Category: English]]