Note 2. All the forms, of course, where པ་ or བ་ are met with might in certain cases belong to the Participle, and not to the Infinitive.
Note 3. The reader will have missed any mention of tenses of the class of Pluperfect, Past Future etc., and, [[63]]indeed, there exists no form of the kind, and they can only be rendered by a Gerund, e.g. ཡི་ ‘when (he) had written the letter, (he) sent (it) off’; ཡི་ (WT: བཀལ་, CT: བཀལ་) ‘when (he) shall have written the letter, (he) will send (it) off’. Neither have the Conditional or Subjunctive any special form. Thus, e.g., འདི་ ‘if we did not do that, we could not live’ (i.e. we cannot earn our sustenance in any other manner); ཅིའི་ ‘why should not I hear (grant) what you say (your wish)?’; བརྡ་ ‘if (you) had not explained it, and (we) had not seen the signs, we would not have understood it’; མིས་ ‘as a man would not find it, I must send an emanation’; vulg., WT, ཨི་ ‘if the distance was not so great, they would come to me (visit me)’. Here may be added, that also the intention of, or attempt at, doing something is expressed by the simple verb: thus, བདག་ ‘though I did try to hinder him, I could not’; བདག་ ‘as he saw his own disciple [[64]]on the point of springing into the water (and that he had sprung off the bank), he held him back by the force of his magic, so that he did not touch the water’ (s. [41. B. 2. b].). Especially the gerunds in ལས་ ([41. A. 6].) have often this meaning: བདག་ ‘when I was about to be parted from life, he saved it’; སྦྲུལ་ ‘the snake, having become angry, though she intended (or: had at first int.) to let out her poison, reflected thus’. As will be seen from these examples, the action, in such cases, is thought to have begun in fact.
A Survey of the principal forms of the Finite Verb.
Present:
| གཏོང་, | W | བཏང་ give |
| མཐོང་ | མཐོང་ I see intens. མཐོང་ | |
| C | མཐོང་ (or ཡོད་) | |
| W | མཐོང་ (or ཡོད་); C མཐོང་ I am seeing |
Perfect:
| བཏང་ | W | བཏང་ gave, have given | ||||
| མཐོང་ | C | མཐོང་ saw, | W | སོང་ | C | སོང་ |
| went | went | |||||
| བཏང་ | བཏང་ I have given, intens. མཐོང་ | |||||
| བཏངས་ has been given | ||||||
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Future: