གང་ + Adjective / Verb / Doubled Adverb
This construction appears in several expressions consisting of the pronoun གང་ (“what,” “as much”) followed by an adjective or, sometimes, a verb or an adverb, usually doubled.
- གང་མགྱོགས་མགྱོགས་ “As quickly as possible”
- གང་ཡག་ཡག་ “As well as possible”
- གང་མང་མང་ “As many as possible”
- གང་གཟབ་གཟབ་ “As carefully as possible”
- གང་ཡོད་ཡོད་ “As much as possible”
We also find གང་ in several constructions such as:
- གང་ཐུབ་ཅི་ཐུབ་ “As much as possible”
- གང་བྱུང་མང་བྱུང་ “Anyhow,” “indiscriminately”
- གང་ལ་གང་འཚམས་ “As appropriate,” “as convenient”