These are made up of a verb and an “internal” object formed from the same root as the verb. They are similar to certain English expressions such as “to live life,” “to dream a dream,” etc. These verbs, which are mainly trisyllabic, are relatively uncommon.

• རྩེད་མོ་རྩེ་ “To play”
• གད་མོ་དགད་ “To laugh”
• ལྟས་མོ་ལྟ་ “To watch a show”
• རྐུ་མ་རྐུ་ “To steal”
• སྐོར་བ་སྐོར་ “To circle,” “to circumambulate”
• དྲི་བ་འདྲི་ “To ask questions”
• རྨི་ལམ་རྨི་ “To dream” (dialectal or literary)
• ཟ་མ་ཟ་ “To eat” (dialectal or literary)