Note 1 — Chapter II · The Substantive.
Reading edition
6. In the Tibetan language the Adjective is not formally distinguished from the Substantive, so that many nouns may be used one or the other way just as circumstances require.1 The declension, likewise, follows the same rules as that of substantives. Only two remarks may be added here. 1. The particles པ་ མ་ པོ་ མོ་ are not very strictly used for distinguishing the gender, since even in the case of human beings པ་ and པོ་ are not seldom found connected with feminines, e.g.: བུ་མོ་མཛེས་པ་ just as well as བུ་མོ་མཛེས་མ་ ‘a fine girl’. 2. The Adjective stands after the Substantive to which it belongs: thus, རི་མཐོན་པོ་ ri-tʽón-po, C: ri-tʽo̤n-po, ‘the high hill’, when, of course, the case-signs are joined to the Adjective: རི་མཐོན་པོའི་ ‘of the high hill’, རི་མཐོན་པོ་རྣམས་ ‘the high hills’ etc.