Cooking & Markets

1. ས་གནས་གྱི་ཚོང་ར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Sa ne gyi tsong ra gang du yö?

   Where is the local market?

   Usage

   Used when looking for fresh local produce

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan uses SOV word order. Question words are typically placed near the end

2. འདི་གི་ཟས་རྫས་ལ་ཅི་ཟེར།

   Di gi ze dze la chi zer?

   What is this ingredient called?

   Usage

   Used to ask the name of an unfamiliar ingredient

   Grammar Note

   "chi" is the Tibetan interrogative pronoun meaning "what"

3. འདི་གི་ཁ་ལག་ཚ་ཤ་ཅན་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Di gi kha lag tsha sha chen yin nam?

   Is this dish very spicy?

   Usage

   Used to check whether a dish is very spicy

   Grammar Note

   The particle "nam" at the end marks a question in Tibetan

4. ཁ་ལག་སློབ་སྦྱོང་རྒྱུར་ངག་བཤད་གནང་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Kha lag lob jong gyur ngak shé nang thub bam?

   Can you recommend a cooking class?

   Usage

   Used when seeking a cooking class recommendation

   Grammar Note

   "nang thub" is a polite ability expression in Tibetan honorific register

5. འདི་གི་ཁ་ལག་ཇི་ལྟར་བཟོ་བ་ཡིན།

   Di gi kha lag ji tar zo wa yin?

   How do you prepare this dish?

   Usage

   Used to ask how to prepare a dish

   Grammar Note

   "ji ltar" is a Tibetan interrogative adverb meaning "how/in what manner"

6. གསར་བ་གི་ཚལ་ཟས་གང་དུ་ཉོ་ཐུབ།

   Sar wa gi tshal ze gang du nyo thub?

   Where can I buy fresh vegetables?

   Usage

   Used to find where to buy fresh produce

   Grammar Note

   In Tibetan, verbs come at the end of sentences (SOV order)

7. ང་ས་གནས་གྱི་ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་འདོད་ཡོད།

   Nga sa ne gyi kha lag zo yong je dod yod.

   I'd like to learn to cook local food.

   Usage

   Expresses interest in learning local cuisine

   Grammar Note

   "dod yod" is a Tibetan expression of desire

8. ཚལ་ཟས་ཙམ་གྱི་ཟས་རྫས་ཡོད་དམ།

   Tshal ze tsam gyi ze dze yod dam?

   Do you have vegetarian ingredients?

   Usage

   Used when looking for plant-based ingredients

   Grammar Note

   The suffix "dam" marks a question in Tibetan

9. འདི་གི་ཁ་ལག་ལ་ཅི་གི་སྣུམ་སྦྱར་བ་ཡིན།

   Di gi kha lag la chi gi num jar wa yin?

   What spices are used in this dish?

   Usage

   Used to inquire about spices in a dish

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan questions are marked by final particles expressing interrogative mood

10. ཉམས་མཐོང་ཙམ་ལེན་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Nyam tong tsam len thub bam?

    Can I try a sample?

    Usage

    Used at markets or food shops to request a taste

    Grammar Note

    "thub bam?" is a Tibetan ability question meaning "can I/is it possible?"

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