Particle ཡང་

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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.

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Particle ཡང་

Note: For usage of ཡང་ as concessive particle, see: Concessive particle, "ornament gather particle", རྒྱན་སྡུད་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་, ཚིག་རྒྱན་

Adverb: "again", "further" at the beginning of sentence

ཡང་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་མི་འོང་བར་མ་གསུམ་དང༌།་་་ དབྱེ་བ་ཡང་ཡོད་དོ།

pleasant  unpleasant in between  three           divisions    exist

Further, [there] are also the divisions of the three of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral, and...

In phrases "again"

ཡང་ཡང་

again again

over and over again, repeatedly, continually

ཡང་ནས་ཡང་དུ་

again again

Indefinite pronouns

སུ་ཡང་ who (animate)' anybody, whoever

ཅི་ཡང་ what, which (inanimate)' anything, whatever,

གང་ཡང་ who, what, which (animate + inanimate)' whoever, whatever

ནམ་ཡང་ '

Indefinite qualifier

ནམ་ཡང་ when always, ever (or "never" with negated verb)

དུས་གང་དུ་ཡང་ time what always, "at whatever time"

to separate v.i. ཐ་མི་དད་པ་ བྲལ་བ།  འབྲལ་བ།  འབྲལ་བ།  past pres. fut. imp.

ནམ་ཡང་བྲལ་མ་གྱུར་ན་་་

ever  separate not became (auxiliary)'

If [one would] never become separated...