Dietary & Allergies

1. ང་ཤ་མི་ཟ་མཁན་ཡིན།

   Nga sha mi za khen yin.

   I am vegetarian.

   Usage

   Basic way to state vegetarianism

   Grammar Note

   "mi-" is the negative prefix on verbs

2. ང་སྲོག་ཆགས་ལས་ཐོན་པའི་ཟས་གང་ཡང་མི་ཟ།

   Nga sokchak le thön pe ze gang yang mi za.

   I don't eat any animal products.

   Usage

   Explain vegan diet

   Grammar Note

   "gang yang" + negative = "nothing at all"

3. ང་ལ་སྟར་ཁ་དང་བ་དམ་ལ་འགོག་རྐྱེན་ཡོད།

   Nga la tarkha dang badam la gokkyen yo.

   I have a nut allergy.

   Usage

   Declares a tree-nut allergy. Tibetan has no umbrella word for edible tree nuts, so the species are listed

   Grammar Note

   "Nga la … yo" = "I have ~"; དང་ (dang) = "and" links the items. Walnut is སྟར་ཁ / སྟར་ཀ, almond is བ་དམ / འབའ་དམ

4. གྲོ་ཞིབ་མེད་པའི་ཟ་མ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Drozhib me pai zama yo dam?

   Do you have gluten-free food?

   Usage

   Question for gluten intolerance

   Grammar Note

   "-dam" is an interrogative particle

5. ང་ཧ་ལལ་ཟ་མཁན་ཡིན། ཕག་ཤ་མི་ཟ།

   Nga halal za khen yin. Phak sha mi za.

   I eat halal. I don't eat pork.

   Usage

   Explain Muslim dietary observance

   Grammar Note

   "-khen" = "one who does ~"

6. ང་ལ་འོ་མ་འཇུ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་མེད།

   Nga la oma ju thub kyi me.

   I can't digest milk.

   Usage

   Explain lactose intolerance

   Grammar Note

   "thub" = potential auxiliary "can"

7. ང་ལ་མཚོའི་ཟས་ལ་འགོག་རྐྱེན་ཡོད།

   Nga la tsoi ze la gokkyen yo.

   I have a seafood allergy.

   Usage

   When avoiding fish/shellfish

   Grammar Note

   "tsoi" = genitive "of sea"

8. ཟ་མ་འདིའི་ནང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཡོད།

   Zama di nang la kare yo?

   What's in this dish?

   Usage

   Basic question to check ingredients

   Grammar Note

   "-i nang la" = "inside ~"

9. བཙོང་མེད་པར་བཟོ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Tsong me par zo thub bam?

   Can you make it without onion?

   Usage

   Ask to omit ingredient

   Grammar Note

   "me par" = adverbial "without"

10. ང་ལ་སྒོ་ང་ལ་འགོག་རྐྱེན་ཡོད།

    Nga la gonga la gokkyen yo.

    I have an egg allergy.

    Usage

    To avoid egg-containing dishes

    Grammar Note

    "-la" marks dative

11. འགོག་རྐྱེན་སློང་མཁན་གྱི་ཟ་མའི་ཐོ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gokkyen long khen kyi zamai tho yo dam?

    Do you have an allergen list?

    Usage

    Request allergen list

    Grammar Note

    "long khen" = "one that triggers"

12. འདི་སྲོག་ལ་ཉེན་ཁ་ཡོད་པའི་འགོག་རྐྱེན་རེད།

    Di sok la nyenkha yo pai gokkyen re.

    This is a life-threatening allergy.

    Usage

    Warn of severity

    Grammar Note

    "re" is 3rd-person copula

13. འདིའི་ནང་ལ་སྣུམ་མམ་སྨན་སྣ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Di nang la num mam mensna yo dam?

    Does this contain oil or spices?

    Usage

    Check for oil/spice content

    Grammar Note

    "-mam" links alternatives in questions

14. ཟ་མ་གཞན་དང་འདྲེས་སྲིད་དམ།

    Zama zhen dang dre si dam?

    Could it cross-contaminate?

    Usage

    Check cross-contamination risk

    Grammar Note

    "si" = potential auxiliary "may"

15. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ཐུགས་བཟོད་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

    Khyerang gi thukso la thukje che.

    Thank you for your understanding.

    Usage

    Thank for accommodating

    Grammar Note

    "thuk-" is an honorific prefix

16. ང་ཤ་ཟ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་མེད།

    Nga sha za thub kyi me.

    I can't eat meat.

    Usage

    State directly that you can't eat meat

    Grammar Note

    "thub kyi me" = negative potential "cannot"

17. ཤ།

    Sha

    Meat

    Usage

    Point at it to check whether a dish contains meat

18. ཕག་ཤ།

    Phag sha

    Pork

    Usage

    Use to check for religious restrictions or allergies

19. བྱ་ཤ།

    Ja sha

    Chicken

    Usage

    Use to check which meat is in a dish

20. ཉ།

    Nya

    Fish

    Usage

    Use to check for allergies or when ordering

21. སྒོ་ང་།

    Go nga

    Egg

    Usage

    Use to check for an allergen

22. འོ་མ།

    O ma

    Dairy / Milk

    Usage

    Use to check for a dairy allergy or lactose intolerance

23. གྲོ།

    Dro

    Wheat

    Usage

    Use when you need to avoid gluten

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