Car Rental & Driving

1. ང་ཞག་གྲངས་མ་ལས་རྟ་འཁོར་ཞིག་བླས་འཐུ་བྱེད་འདོད།

   Nga zhak drang ma le ta kor zhik le tu che do.

   I'd like to rent a car for a few days.

   Usage

   Basic car rental request

   Grammar Note

   "zhak drang" = "number of days"

2. བླས་རིན་ནང་ག་རེ་ཚུད་ཡོད།

   Le rin nang kare tsud yo?

   What's included in the rental price?

   Usage

   Confirming what the rental price includes

   Grammar Note

   "nang ... tsud" = "included in"

3. GPS ཡོད་དམ། རང་འགུལ་གི་རྟ་འཁོར་ཡོད་དམ།

   GPS yo dam? Rang gul gi ta kor yo dam?

   Does it have GPS? Is it automatic transmission?

   Usage

   Confirming car features and transmission type

   Grammar Note

   "rang gul" lit. "self-moving" = automatic

4. ཉེན་སྲུང་གི་རིགས་ག་རེ་ཡོད།

   Nyen srung gi rik kare yo?

   What are the insurance options?

   Usage

   Checking insurance options for the rental

   Grammar Note

   "-gi rik" = "types of ~"

5. སྐྱིལ་ཆང་གང་གང་བཀངས་ཏེ་ལོག་ལ་འབུལ་དགོས་དམ།

   Kil chang gang gang kang te lok la bul go dam?

   Should I return it with a full tank?

   Usage

   Checking the fuel return policy

   Grammar Note

   "go dam" = "is it necessary?" question

6. འགྲུལ་ལམ་གི་ཚད་གཞི་ཡོད་དམ།

   Drul lam gi tsadzi yo dam?

   Is there a mileage limit?

   Usage

   Checking for mileage restrictions

   Grammar Note

   "tsadzi" = "limit/standard"

7. རྟ་འཁོར་ལ་གནོད་པ་ཡོད། ངས་སྙན་ཞུ་བྱེད་འདོད།

   Ta kor la nöpa yo. Nge nyen zhu che do.

   I'd like to report a scratch on the car.

   Usage

   Reporting damage on the rental car

   Grammar Note

   "-la ... yo" = "there is ... on ~"

8. ཉེ་ཤོས་ཀྱི་སྐྱིལ་ཆང་ཚོང་ར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Nyesho kyi kil chang tsong ra gang du yo?

   Where is the nearest gas station?

   Usage

   Asking for the nearest gas station

   Grammar Note

   "-sho" = superlative "most"

9. རྟ་འཁོར་འདི་མཐའ་ཡུལ་ཕར་གཏོང་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Ta kor di ta yul par tong thub bam?

   Can I take this car across the border?

   Usage

   Checking if cross-border driving is allowed

   Grammar Note

   "par tong" = "send/take across"

10. ལམ་སྲུང་གིས་ང་བཀག་སོང་། ག་རེ་བྱེད་དགོས།

    Lam srung gi nga kak song. Kare che go?

    I've been stopped by traffic police. What should I do?

    Usage

    Asking what to do when stopped by traffic police

    Grammar Note

    "kare che go" = "what must be done"

11. འགྲུལ་ལམ་འདིའི་ཐོག་ལ་མཐིལ་ཆད་ཡོད་དམ།

    Drul lam di tok la thil cha yo dam?

    Are there toll roads on this route?

    Usage

    Checking for toll roads on the route

    Grammar Note

    "thil cha" = "fee/charge"

12. འདིར་གཞུག་རྟ་སྒྲིག་པའི་ཁྲིམས་ག་རེ་ཡིན།

    Dir zhuk ta drik pai trim kare yin?

    What are the parking rules here?

    Usage

    Checking local parking regulations

    Grammar Note

    "zhuk ta" lit. "stationed horse" = parking

13. རྟ་འཁོར་འདི་མི་འགུལ།

    Ta kor di mi gul.

    The car won't start.

    Usage

    When the car won't start

    Grammar Note

    "mi-" negates; "gul" = "move/start"

14. ང་སྔར་ལ་རྟ་འཁོར་ལོག་འབུལ་འདོད།

    Nga ngar la ta kor lok bul do.

    I'd like to return the car early.

    Usage

    Requesting early return of the rental car

    Grammar Note

    "lok bul" = respectful "return"

15. བྱིས་པའི་རྟ་འཁོར་གདན་ཡོད་དམ།

    Chipa yi ta kor den yo dam?

    Do you have a child seat available?

    Usage

    Checking for child seat availability

    Grammar Note

    "den" = "seat/cushion"

16. འདི་ལ་སྐྱིལ་ཆང་རིགས་ག་རེ་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད།

    Di la kil chang rik kare be cho che?

    What type of fuel does it use?

    Usage

    Checking what fuel type the car uses

    Grammar Note

    "be cho che" = "to use/employ"

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