Diving & Water Sports

1. ང་མཚོ་འོག་ལ་མཆོང་བ་བྱེད་འདོད།

   Nga tso ok la chong wa che do.

   I'd like to go scuba diving.

   Usage

   Signing up for a scuba diving session

   Grammar Note

   "tso ok" = "under the lake/sea" = underwater

2. སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ལག་ཁྱེར་དགོས་སམ།

   Jong dra lak khyer go sam?

   Is a diving certification required?

   Usage

   Checking if a diving certification is needed

   Grammar Note

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

3. མཚོ་འོག་གི་གོས་གང་དུ་གླ་ལེན་ཐུབ།

   Tso ok gi gö gang du la len thub?

   Where can I rent a wetsuit?

   Usage

   Finding where to rent a wetsuit

   Grammar Note

   "tso ok gi gö" = "underwater clothes" = wetsuit; "la len" = to rent

4. ས་ཁུལ་འདིར་མཚོ་འོག་ཟབ་ཚད་ག་ཚོད་ཡིན།

   Sakhul dir tso ok saptse katso yin?

   How deep is this dive site?

   Usage

   Asking about the depth of the dive site

   Grammar Note

   "saptse" = "depth" (zap = deep, tse = degree/measure)

5. འདིར་ཉ་ཆེན་པོ་འམ་མཚོའི་སྲོག་ཆགས་ཉེན་ཁ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Dir nya chenpo am tsoi sokchak nyenkha yo dam?

   Are there sharks or dangerous marine animals here?

   Usage

   Checking for dangerous sea creatures

   Grammar Note

   "tsoi" = genitive "of the sea"

6. ད་རིང་ མཚོ་འོག་ལ་མཆོང་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་བཟང་ཡོད་དམ།

   Dering tso ok la chong we ne tang zang yo dam?

   Are conditions good for diving today?

   Usage

   Asking about diving conditions

   Grammar Note

   "ne tang zang" = "conditions are good"

7. ང་ཆུའི་སྟེང་ལ་ལྡིང་ནས་མཚོ་འོག་བལྟ་འདོད།

   Nga chu i teng la ding ne tso ok ta do.

   I'd like to try snorkeling.

   Usage

   Signing up to try snorkeling

   Grammar Note

   No fixed word for snorkeling is known, so the card describes it: "float on the surface and look underwater"

8. གྲུ་གཟིངས་ཀྱི་སྟེང་ནས་མཚོ་འོག་ལ་མཆོང་བ་ཞིག་སྔོན་འགོད་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Dru zing gi teng ne tso ok la chong wa zhik ngon gö thub bam?

   Can I book a boat dive?

   Usage

   Booking a boat-based diving trip

   Grammar Note

   "ngon gö thub" = "can book" potential form

9. མཚོའི་བྱུ་རུ་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Tsoi chu ru gang du yo?

   Where is the coral reef?

   Usage

   Asking for the location of the coral reef

   Grammar Note

   "gang du yo" = "where does it exist?" location question

10. ང་PADI་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཐོབ་མཁན་ཡིན།

    Nga PADI jong dra thob khen yin.

    I'm a certified diver — PADI Open Water.

    Usage

    Stating diving certification level

    Grammar Note

    "-khen" = "one who ~" agentive suffix

11. ང་རླབས་ལ་བཞོན་པའི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་འདོད།

    Nga lab la zhön we lob jong che do.

    I'd like a surfing lesson.

    Usage

    Requesting a surfing lesson

    Grammar Note

    "lab la zhön wa" = "riding the waves" = surfing; no fixed word for surfing is known, so this is descriptive

12. ཆུ་རྒྱུན་དང་ཆུ་ཚད་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ག་འདྲ་ཡོད།

    Chu gyün dang chu tse kyi ne tang kadra yo?

    What are the current and tide conditions?

    Usage

    Checking currents and tides before diving

    Grammar Note

    "-gi ne tang" = "conditions of ~"

13. མཚོ་འོག་གི་ཛ་དྲག་གི་རྟགས་མ་ག་རེ་ཡིན།

    Tso ok gi dza drak gi tak ma kare yin?

    What is the emergency signal underwater?

    Usage

    Pre-dive check on emergency signals

    Grammar Note

    "dza drak" = "emergency"

14. རླབས་ལ་བཞོན་པའི་ཤིང་ལེབ་ཅིག་གླ་ལེན་འདོད།

    Lab la zhön we shing leb chik la len do.

    I'd like to rent a surfboard.

    Usage

    Renting a surfboard

    Grammar Note

    "lab" = wave; "shing leb" = board/plank; the card describes it as "a board for riding waves"

15. གསར་སློབ་པ་ལ་ཡག་ཤོས་ཀྱི་ས་ཆ་གང་ཡིན།

    Sar lob pa la yak sho kyi sacha gang yin?

    What's the best spot for beginners?

    Usage

    Asking for the best beginner diving spot

    Grammar Note

    "-sho" = superlative suffix "most/best"

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