ང་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རང་ངོས་ཀྱི་ཆ་འཕྲིན་དེ་འདྲིས་ཟླ་འཚོལ་བའི་མཉེན་ཆས་ནང་མཐོང་བྱུང་།
Nga khye kyi rang ngö kyi cha trin de dri da tsöl we nyen che nang tong jung.
I saw your profile on a dating app.
Usage
Opening line when first messaging someone on a dating app
Grammar Note
Tibetan follows SOV word order. "བྱུང་" is a past evidential marker
ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་ང་དང་མཐུན་སྦྱོར་བྱེད་འདོད་དམ།
Khye kyi nga dang tün jor je dö dam?
Would you like to match / connect?
Usage
Asking someone if they want to connect
Grammar Note
"འདོད་དམ" expresses a desire in question form
ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་མཉེན་ཆས་འདི་ནང་ཅི་འཚོལ་གྱི་ཡོད།
Khye kyi nyen che di nang chi tsöl gyi yö?
What are you looking for on this app?
Usage
Question to understand the other person's intentions
Grammar Note
"འཚོལ་གྱི་ཡོད" is a compound verb form expressing present continuous
ང་འདིར་གསར་པ་ཡིན། མཉེན་ཆས་འདི་ཇི་ལྟར་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་དམ།
Nga dir sar pa yin. Nyen che di ji tar be chö je dam?
I'm new here — how does it work?
Usage
Asking how the app works as a newcomer
Grammar Note
"ཇི་ལྟར་" is an interrogative adverb meaning "how"
མཇལ་མ་ཐུག་གོང་མཉམ་དུ་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་གཏམ་མོལ་བྱས་ཆོག་གམ།
Jel ma tuk gong nyam du nyen trin tam möl je chok gam?
Can we video chat before meeting?
Usage
Suggesting a video call before meeting for safety
Grammar Note
"ཆོག་གམ" is a question form asking for permission or possibility
ང་ཚོའི་ཐོག་མའི་མཇལ་འཕྲད་ལ་ཁྱེད་གང་དུ་མཇལ་འདོད།
Nga tsö tok me jel tre la khye gang du jel dö?
Where would you like to meet for our first date?
Usage
Asking where to meet for the first date
Grammar Note
"འདོད" is a verb expressing desire or wish
གཏམ་བཤད་སྐྱིད་པོ་ཆགས་བྱུང་། མཇལ་བར་འདོད་དམ།
Tam she kyi po chak jung. Jel bar dö dam?
I enjoyed chatting — want to meet up?
Usage
Suggesting to meet up after enjoyable chatting
Grammar Note
"ཆགས་བྱུང་" is a compound past form expressing a completed experience
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རང་ངོས་ཤིན་ཏུ་ལེགས་པ་དང་པར་རིས་མཛེས་པ་རེད།
Khye kyi rang ngö shin tu lek pa dang par ri dze pa re.
You have a great profile / nice photos!
Usage
Complimenting someone's profile or photos
Grammar Note
"རེད" is the assertive copula in Tibetan
ང་ཡུལ་འདིར་བདུན་ཕྲག་གཅིག་ལ་ཡོང་གི་ཡིན། མཇལ་འདོད་དམ།
Nga yül dir dün trak chik la yong gi yin. Jel dö dam?
I'm visiting for a week — would you like to meet?
Usage
Suggesting to meet during a short visit
Grammar Note
"ཡོང་གི་ཡིན" is a compound auxiliary expressing future/present action
ང་ཚོ་ཧ་ཅང་མཐུན་པ་ཡིན་བསམ་གྱི་ཡོད།
Nga tso ha chang tün pa yin sam gyi yö.
I think we're a good match!
Usage
Expressing that you feel you are well-matched
Grammar Note
"བསམ་གྱི་ཡོད" is a cognitive verb expression meaning "I think / believe"
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