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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)
  • Polar Compounds Comprising Adjectives (English, Latin script, Original)

Subject ID: S5341