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Terminating Particles

There are eleven Terminating Particles: (སླར་བསྡུ། ཟླ་སྡུད། རྫོགས་ཚིག)

Terminating Particles are used to indicate the end of a sentence, i.e. the completion of a particular train of thought. In English translation, these can often resemble paragraphs rather than sentences.

The particles can be affixed to any part of speech and will sometimes also be used to complete “incomplete” sentences, by adding an implicit Existence Particle (སྒྲུབ་སྒྲ།) to the sentence.

Attached to nouns, for example:

Attached to adjectives, for example:

Attached to grammar particles, for example:

When verbs take the terminating particles it indicates a proper end to the sentence or thought, without adding any other meaning. In this way, verbs and auxiliaries (such as ཡིན། ཡོད། དགོས། etc.) are the default parts of speech for these particles to be affixed.

For example:

In general, terminating particles can be affixed to any verb, but are not affixed to imperative forms.

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