The markers ཅན་ and ལྡན་ usually function like nominalized possessive verbs similar to ཡོད་པ་ “who has, endowed with.” Their meaning is very similar and they are often interchangeable.

• ཡོན་ཏན་ཅན་ = ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན་ “One endowed with qualities…”
• མཛོ་རྭ་ཅན་ “A dzo with horns…”
• གསར་ཤོག་ཤོག་ངོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཅན་ “A newspaper with twelve pages…”
• གསེར་གྱི་པད་མ་ཅན་ “The one with the golden lotus…”
• གསེར་ལྡན་གྱི་རི་བོ་ “A mountain that harbors gold…”