Accommodation

1. ངས་ཁང་པ་བཀའ་ལེན་བྱས་འདུག ངའི་མིང་སི་མི་ཐི་རེད།

   Nge khang pa ka len je duk. Nge ming Smith re.

   I have a reservation. My name is Smith.

   Usage

   Used at the hotel front desk when checking in

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan is SOV. "je duk" is a perfective evidential form

2. ང་སྔོན་ལ་ཁང་མིག་ལྟ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Nga ngön la khang mik ta chok gam?

   Can I see the room first?

   Usage

   Used when you want to inspect the room before deciding

   Grammar Note

   "chok gam?" is a permission question meaning "may I/is it okay to?"

3. ཞོགས་ཟས་གོང་ནང་ཚུད་ཡོད་དམ།

   Zhok ze gong nang tsü yö dam?

   Is breakfast included?

   Usage

   Used to ask if breakfast is included

   Grammar Note

   "dam?" is an interrogative final particle meaning "is it?"

4. ཕྱིར་འབུད་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཕྱིས་སུ་བསྒྱུར་ཆོག་གམ།

   Chir bü chu tsö chi su gyur chok gam?

   Can I have a late check-out?

   Usage

   Used to request a later check-out time

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan check-out expressions use the concept of "going out"

5. ལིཕ་ཊི་ཡོད་དམ།

   Lift yö dam?

   Is there an elevator?

   Usage

   Used to ask if there is an elevator

   Grammar Note

   "yö dam?" is the standard existential question "is there a ~?"

6. མགོ་འབོལ་གཅིག་ཁ་སྣོན་ཐོབ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Go böl chik kha nön top chok gam?

   Could I get an extra pillow?

   Usage

   Used to request an additional pillow

   Grammar Note

   "top chok gam?" is a polite request meaning "may I receive?"

7. རླུང་འཁོར་དྲོད་གཤེར་མི་འདོན།

   Lung khor drö sher mi dön.

   The air conditioning is not working.

   Usage

   Used to report a broken air conditioner

   Grammar Note

   "mi" is the Tibetan negation word placed before the verb

8. ཕྱིར་འབུད་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

   Chir bü chu tsö ga tsö re?

   What time is check-out?

   Usage

   Used to ask what time check-out is

   Grammar Note

   "ga tsö re?" asks "what time is it/how many hours?"

9. མོ་ཊར་འཇོག་ས་ཡོད་དམ།

   Mo tar jok sa yö dam?

   Is there parking available?

   Usage

   Used to ask about parking availability

   Grammar Note

   "jok sa" literally means "a place to put/park"

10. ང་འདིར་ཁུར་གང་འཇོག་ཆོག་གམ།

    Nga dir khur gang jok chok gam?

    Can I store my luggage here?

    Usage

    Used to leave luggage at the hotel

    Grammar Note

    "jok chok gam?" asks permission "may I place/leave here?"

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