Topic particle, ནི་སྒྲ་

Articles on Tibetan Grammar

1. Introduction

2. Formation of the Tibetan Syllable

3. Formation of the Tibetan Word

4. First case: ming tsam

5. La don particles

6. La don particles—Notes

7. Originative case

8. Verbs

9. Verbs—Notes

10. Syntactic particles

by Stefan J. E.

• Chapter overview: Tibetan Grammar - Syntactic particles

Topic particle, ནི་སྒྲ་

རྒྱལ་པོས་བཅོམ་པའི་དགྲ་བོ་ནི་རིགས་ངན་གྱིས་རལ་གྲིས་བསད་དོ།།

king     defeated     enemy   cast   bad        sword       killed

The enemy, [who] was defeated by the king, was killed by the executioner with [a] sword.