In Literary Tibetan we sometimes find nominal sentences, that is, sentences with no verb (and no adjective with a verb function). These sentences usually end in a noun, but they may also end in some formulation other than a verb (such as a pronoun or an adverb). In most cases, these nominal sentences end in the concluding particle འོ་ or one of its variants (xxlink Table: Variant Written forms of Grammatical Cases and Morphemes).

• བླ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་སོ། “(It was) by the lamas.”
• སྐྱོ་སྐྱོ་སེམས་པ་སྐྱོའོ། “Sad, sad, my heart (is so) sad.”
• འདི་ནི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལོ། “This (is) suffering.”