Accessibility

1. གནས་འདིར་འཁོར་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་གྱི་རྒྱུན་ལམ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Né-dir khor-kyel-dren gyi gyün-lam yö dam?

   Is this place wheelchair accessible?

   Usage

   Use this when checking if a venue or attraction can be accessed with a wheelchair.

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan yes/no questions are formed by adding "དམ" or "ཡིན་ནམ" at the end of a statement.

2. འདི་ན་ལིཕ་ཊི་ཡོད་དམ།

   Di na lift yö dam?

   Do you have an elevator / lift?

   Usage

   Ask this in hotels or buildings when looking for an elevator.

   Grammar Note

   "ཡོད་དམ" is the existential question form. "ལིཕ་ཊི" is a loanword from English "lift."

3. ང་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཆ་ཚང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁང་མིག་དགོས།

   Nga-la gyab-kyör cha-tsang yö-pé khang-mik gö.

   I need a room with accessibility features.

   Usage

   Use at a hotel front desk when requesting an accessible room.

   Grammar Note

   "ང་ལ་...དགོས" expresses "I need..." — a standard necessity phrase in Tibetan.

4. ཐག་བཀག་མི་དགོས་པའི་འཇུག་སྒོ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Thak-kak mi-gö-pé juk-go yö dam?

   Is there a ramp or step-free entrance?

   Usage

   Ask this to find out if a building has a step-free entrance or ramp.

   Grammar Note

   "མི་དགོས་པ" creates a negative relative clause meaning "without" or "that does not require."

5. ལུས་ཐང་ཆད་མཁན་ལ་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་ཐུབ་པའི་གསང་ཁང་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Lü-thang-ché-khen-la köl-chö-thub-pé sang-khang gang-du yö?

   Where is the accessible restroom?

   Usage

   Use this to locate an accessible or disabled restroom.

   Grammar Note

   "གང་དུ་ཡོད" asks "where is it?" — "གང་དུ" means "where" in Tibetan.

6. ང་མིག་གི་ནད་ཅན་ཡིན། ང་ལ་རོགས་རམ་གནང་ངམ།

   Nga mik-gi né-chen yin. Nga-la rok-ram nang ngam?

   I am visually impaired — can you help me?

   Usage

   Use this to inform someone of your visual impairment and ask for help.

   Grammar Note

   "གནང" is an honorific verb meaning "to do/give," used for polite requests.

7. ཡི་གེ་ཆེ་བའི་ཟ་ཁང་གི་དཀར་ཆག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Yi-ge che-wé sa-khang-gi kar-chak yö dam?

   Do you have large-print menus?

   Usage

   Ask at a restaurant when you need a large-print menu due to visual difficulties.

   Grammar Note

   "ཆེ་བ" is the adjective "big/large" and precedes the noun it modifies.

8. སྒྲ་ཐོས་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Dra tö tri yik yö dam?

   Are there audio guides available?

   Usage

   Ask at museums or attractions whether audio guides are available.

   Grammar Note

   "ཡོད་དམ" forms an existential question. "ཁྲིད་ཡིག" literally means "guide text" but is used for audio guides too.

9. ང་རྣ་མིག་སྤྱོད་མཁན་ཡིན། གསལ་པོར་བཤད་རོགས།

   Nga na-mik chö-khen yin. Sel-por shé rog.

   I use a hearing aid — please speak clearly.

   Usage

   Inform someone you use a hearing aid and need them to speak clearly.

   Grammar Note

   "རོགས" is a request suffix meaning "please" — widely used for everyday polite requests.

10. ང་ལམ་སྟོན་གྱི་ཁྱི་དང་ལྷན་ཡོང་ཆོག་གམ།

    Nga lam-tön-gyi khi dang lhen yong chok gam?

    Can I bring my service/guide dog?

    Usage

    Ask for permission to enter a venue with a guide or service dog.

    Grammar Note

    "ཆོག་གམ" is a permission question. "ལྷན" is a particle meaning "together with."

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