Polar Compounds Comprising Adjectives
The structure of these compounds is adjective (positive) + adjective (negative):
- ཚ་གྲང་ “Temperature” (hot-cold)
- མཐོ་དམན་ “Height” (high-low)
- ཆེ་ཆུང་ “Size” (big-small)
- མང་ཉུང་ “Quantity (much-little)
- ཡག་ཉེས་ “Quality” (good-bad)
- བཟང་ངན་ “Quality” (excellent-bad)
- རིང་ཐུང་ “Length” (long-short)
- ཉེ་རིང་ “Distance” (near-far)
- དཀར་ནག་ “Opposites” (white-black)
- གསར་རྙིང་ “Age” (new-old)
- སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ “Living conditions” (happy-wretched)
- སྲབ་མཐུག་ “Density” (thin-thick)
- སྐམ་རློན་ “Humidity” (dry-wet)
- དྲག་ཤན་ “Power” (strong-weak)