Airport & Customs

1. ལམ་ཡིག་སྤྲོད་རོགས་གནང་།

   Lam-yik trö rok nang

   Please show your passport

   Usage

   Standard phrase used by immigration officers

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan follows SOV word order

2. ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་འབྱོར་སའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་ག་རེ་རེད།

   Khyé kyi jor-sé mik-yül ga-re re?

   What is the purpose of your visit?

   Usage

   Standard immigration question

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-re red?" = what is

3. ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་མཚན་མོ་ཇི་ཙམ་གནས་སྡོད་བྱ་འཆར་ཡོད།

   Khyé kyi tsen-mo ji-tsam né-dö ja-char yö?

   How many nights are you planning to stay?

   Usage

   Commonly asked at immigration

   Grammar Note

   "Ji-tsam" = how many

4. ཁྱེད་ལ་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་བྱ་དགོས་པའི་ཅ་ཆས་ཡོད་དམ།

   Khyé la sel-drak ja-gö-pé cha-ché yö dam?

   Do you have anything to declare?

   Usage

   Asked at customs

   Grammar Note

   "-dam" is a yes/no question suffix

5. ངའི་ཁུར་གང་མ་ཡོང་།

   Ngé khur-gang ma-yong

   My luggage hasn't arrived

   Usage

   Tell baggage claim staff

   Grammar Note

   "Ma-" is a negation prefix

6. འདི་ལག་ཁུར་གང་ཡིན།

   Di lag-khur-gang yin

   This is carry-on luggage

   Usage

   Tell airline staff at check-in or boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Lag" = hand

7. ང་ཕར་ལམ་སེང་ཡིན།

   Nga par-lam-seng yin

   I'm in transit

   Usage

   Used at transit counters or immigration

   Grammar Note

   "Phar" = through/via

8. སྒོ་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Go gang-du yö?

   Where is the gate?

   Usage

   Ask when looking for your boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Gang-du" = where

9. གནམ་གྲུ་ལ་འཛེགས་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

   Nam-dru la dzek chu-tsö ga-tsö re?

   When does boarding begin?

   Usage

   Ask while waiting at the boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Chu-tshod" = time

10. ཁྲལ་མེད་ཚོང་ར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

    Tral-mé tsong-ra gang-du yö?

    Where is the duty-free shop?

    Usage

    Ask after clearing security

    Grammar Note

    "Khral" = tax, "med" = without

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