Tibetan Colloquial Disclaimer
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Those are my personal distilled notes on the great work done on colloquial Tibetan by Franziska Oertle and the SINI Sarnath International Nyingma Institute. They are not revised by teachers and might confuse you unless you are familiarized with the course material. I recommend you to not use these notes independently unless you have been exposed to the material before.
If we were to sort them (Tibetan Intensifiers, Tibetan དྲགས་ Excess, Tibetan རང་ and སེ་, Tibetan ཙམ་ “A bit more X”, “Merely”, Tibetan Reducers ཁྱོན་ནས། རྩ་བ་(ཉིད་)ནས། གཏན་ནས།) by intensity we would end up with the following order, but don’t take it as hard truth, it’s based on intuition.
- དཔེ་མི་སྲིད་པའི།
- ཧང་སང་ཡག། ཧ་ལས་ཡག། ཧ་ཅང་།
- ཞེ་དྲགས། དཔེ། ཞེ་པོ་གཅིག ཡོད།
- root + སའི་
- root + ཙམ་
- adj + ཨོ་ཙམ་
- སེ + neg
- རང་ + neg
- ཞེ་དྲགས་ + neg
- ཁྱོན་ནས་ + neg
- རྩ་བ་ཉིད་ནས་ + neg
- གཏན་ནས + neg