In Spoken Tibetan, when adjectives take on a “verbal” (or predicative) function and appear at the end of the sentence, they must be followed by a copula or an auxiliary (except in certain comparative constructions, xxlink MST 17.3). In Literary Tibetan, however, adjectives that function as predicates are often treated autonomously, with neither copula nor auxiliary.

• འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས། “This is really lovely!”
• དལ་འབྱོར་རིན་ཆེན་འདི་ཐོབ་དཀའ། “This precious human body is hard to get.”
• ཡོན་ཏན་ཆུང་རྣམས་ང་རྒྱལ་ཆེ། “Those with few qualities are full of pride.”
• གནོད་ལན་ཀུན་གྱིས་སྒྲུབ་པར་སླ། “Anyone can easily take revenge.”