Transliteration: tu
<ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> A ཕྲད་གཞན་དབང་ཅན་ dependent connector which is one of the seven ལ་དོན་ "la-equivalents" q.v. for explanation.Placement: When a la-equivalent is required, this one must be used when the preceding word has མཐའ་རྟེན་ཅན་ an ending letter of ག་, བ་, or re-suffixed ད་ (even if the ད་ letter is not written because of new orthography) E.g., བདག་ཏུ་འཛིན་པ་ and ཀུནད་ཏུ་འགྲོ། and ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ།.
Meaning: As a la-equivalent, it is used to show three of the cases in Tibetan grammar.