Adjectival Suffixes

Generally speaking, adjectives strongly resemble verbs and may even be “conjugated” with certain auxiliary verbs. Adjectives usually consist of a radical and a suffix, or else a doubled radical.

There are a number of suffixes that specify the degree of the adjective. These include:

• པོ་ Positive
• པ་ Comparative
• ཤོས་ Superlative and intensive
• པ་ལ་ Admirative
• དྲགས་ Excessive
• ཙམ་ Attenuative
• ཐག་ཆོད་ or སའི་ Intensives
• ལོས་ Interrogative
• Expressive suffixes