These auxiliaries are effectively similar to copulas and may also be translated by the same devices. How they are used depends on the tense of the verb. Refer to the chart above in the general discussion of epistemic mood. (xxlink chart above in 11.3.1)

• འགྲིག་གི་ཡོད་པ་འདྲ། “It must be all right.”
• ཁོང་ཕེབས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ས་རེད། “He will probably come.”
• སྐྱག་རྫུན་བཤད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ཀྱི་རེད། “(He/she) probably lies.”