Causitive Auxiliaries with Non-Volitional Verbs

In association with non-volitional verbs, auxiliaries acquire a factitive or causative meaning. The agent is then the cause of, or the party responsible for, the transformation that something or someone undergoes. It may accordingly be translated by “to see to it that” or “to make sure that.”

• བྱིས་པ་ལ་སློབ་གསོ་ཐེབས་པར་བྱེད་དགོས། “One ought to see to it that children receive an education.”
• རང་གི་སྔོན་བྱས་ཀྱི་ལས་ངན་སྨིན་པ་ཤེས་པར་བྱས་ནས་བཟོད་བསྲན་བསྐྱེད་དགོས། “We should make sure that we are aware of the negative karma of past deeds and endure (their consequences).”