Agentive Particle
The main function of an agentive particle is to make an adverb. (T/F)
False. It is to indicate an agent.
The imperative mood expresses a command. (T/F)
True
intransitive verbs can be volitional or involitional. (T/F)
True
An instrument is usually a sentient being (T/F)
False.
What are the three uses of the agentive particle?
Agent (of transitive verb)/instrument/adverb
What are the three spellings of the imperative particle?
ཅིག ཞིག ཤིག
Is "going" transitive or intransitive?
intransitive
རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ནོ། indicates agent/instrument/adverb
adverb
what is the difference between སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ། and སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་བསྟན།?
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བཀས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ནོ། indicates agent/instrument/adverb
instrument.
May it be!
Name one of the exceptions to the structure intransitive verbs.
verb of perception, verb of emotion, need, obtain.
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ནོ། indicates agent/instrument/adverb
agent
What is the particle (if any) used for the vocative case?
None.
What verbs get agentive particles to indicate an agent?
Transitive verbs, verbs of perception (and sometimes verbs of movement?)
What is the meaning of བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ་བར་ཤོག?
May merit increase!
ཁོང་གིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་མཐོང་ངོ། Is this transitive or intransitive?
Intransitive. He saw the ocean.
what is the meaning of བདག་གིས་སྟོང་པ།?
Empty of self. (lit. empty by self)
Does "need" need a ལ་དོན། particle?
yes.