Fashion & Clothing

1. འདི་ལ་ངའི་གཟུགས་ཚད་ཡོད་དམ།

   Di-la nga-i zug-tse yod-dam?

   Do you have this in my size?

   Usage

   Ask if your size is available for this item

   Grammar Note

   "yod-dam" is the interrogative form asking about existence

2. འདི་གྱོན་ལྟ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Di gyön-ta-thub-kyi-red-dam?

   Can I try this on?

   Usage

   Ask permission to try on clothing

   Grammar Note

   "gyön-ta-thub-kyi-red-dam" politely asks if trying on is possible

3. གོས་བཅོས་ཁང་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Go-cho-khang gang-du yod?

   Where is the fitting room?

   Usage

   Ask for the location of the fitting room

   Grammar Note

   "khang" means "room" or "space"

4. འདི་ཆུང་དྲགས། / གཤིང་ལྡིར། / རིང་དྲགས། / ཐུང་དྲགས།

   Di chung-drag / shing-dir / ring-drag / tung-drag

   This is too tight / loose / long / short.

   Usage

   Describe sizing or length issues with clothing

   Grammar Note

   "drag" is a suffix meaning "too" (excessive degree)

5. གཞན་མདོག་གཅིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Zhen-dog chig yod-dam?

   Do you have this in a different color?

   Usage

   Ask about different color options

   Grammar Note

   "zhen-dog" means "a different color"

6. འདི་ཅི་ལས་བཟོས་ཡོད།

   Di chi-le so-yod?

   What material / fabric is this made of?

   Usage

   Ask about the material or fabric of a garment

   Grammar Note

   "chi-le" asks "from what / made of what"

7. འདི་འཁྲུད་འཕྲུལ་ལ་བཀྲུ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Di khrud-trul-la tru-thub-kyi-red-dam?

   Is this machine washable?

   Usage

   Ask about washing instructions before purchasing

   Grammar Note

   "tru-thub-kyi-red-dam" asks if washing is possible

8. ཆེ་བ་གཅིག་འདི་དང་རྣམ་པ་གཅིག་པ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Che-wa chig di-dang nam-pa chig-pa yod-dam?

   Do you have the same style in a larger size?

   Usage

   Ask for the same style in a bigger size

   Grammar Note

   "nam-pa chig-pa" means "the same form / style" and follows "di-dang" ("with this")

9. འདི་ལ་རིན་ག་ཙམ་རེད།

   Di-la rin ga-tsam red?

   How much is this?

   Usage

   Ask the price of clothing or an item

   Grammar Note

   "ga-tsam red" is the most common way to ask the price

10. གོང་ཕབ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gong-phab yod-dam?

    Is there a sale or discount?

    Usage

    Ask about sales or discounts

    Grammar Note

    "gong-phab" means "lowering the price" and covers both a discount and a sale

11. འདི་ཉོ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།

    Di nyo-gyu yin

    I'll take it.

    Usage

    Short phrase used when deciding to buy an item

    Grammar Note

    "nyo-gyu yin" expresses the intention "I will buy it". "Nyo" alone means "bought"

12. ལྟ་ཙམ་ཡིན། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

    Ta-tsam yin. Ka-drin-che.

    I'm just looking, thank you.

    Usage

    Politely decline assistance when just browsing

    Grammar Note

    "tsam" is a limiter meaning "just / only"

13. ལོག་གཏོང་གམ་བརྗེ་སྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒྲིག་ག་འདྲ་རེད།

    Log-tong gam je-gyur-gyi drig ga-dra red?

    What is your return / exchange policy?

    Usage

    Ask about return and exchange policies before buying

    Grammar Note

    "ga-dra red" asks "what is it like"

14. ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་གྱི་གཟུགས་ཚད་ཡོད་དམ།

    Chi-gyel gyi zug-tse yod-dam?

    Do you carry Western / international sizes?

    Usage

    Ask if Western or international sizing is available

    Grammar Note

    "chi-gyel gyi" is the genitive form meaning "of foreign / international"

15. ལྟ་ན་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཡག་པོ་འདུག

    Ta-na shin-tu yag-po dug

    This looks great on you.

    Usage

    Compliment a companion on how clothing looks on them

    Grammar Note

    "dug" is a perceptional copula expressing a current state observed by the speaker

16. འདི་ཐུང་དུ་བཟོ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

    Di thung-du so-thub-kyi-red-dam?

    Can you alter / hem this for me?

    Usage

    Request hemming or alteration service

    Grammar Note

    "so-thub-kyi-red-dam" is a polite request question

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