Volitional Verbs

Volitional verbs are concerned with controllable action, and are compatible with intentional auxiliaries such as པ་ཡིན་ and “jussive” suffixes that convey an order or a suggestion (such as ཏ་ or ཤིག་). Moreover, these verbs sometimes have a special inflected form for the imperative.

Some basic examples of volitional verbs are:

• བལྟས་པ་ཡིན། “I looked.”
• ལྟོས་ཤིག “Look!”
• ཉལ་པ་ཡིན། “I went to bed.”
• ཉོལ་ཤིག “Go to bed! Lie down!”