Hotel

1. གཉིད་ཁང་གཅིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Nyi-khang chig yö-dam?

   Do you have a room available?

   Usage

   Used when checking in at a hotel or guesthouse.

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan accommodation ranges from "nyi-khang" (bedroom/room) to "ne-dö-khang" (guesthouses). Monastery guesthouses have their own regulations.

2. མཚན་གཅིག་གི་རིན་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

   Tsen chig-gi rin ga-tsö re?

   How much is it per night?

   Usage

   Asking about the nightly rate.

   Grammar Note

   "Chig-gi" is the genitive particle connecting quantity and price unit. Accommodation costs vary widely by region and season in Tibet.

3. ཆུ་ཚ་པོ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Chu tsa-po yö-dam?

   Is there hot water?

   Usage

   Important to check, as hot water is not guaranteed at high altitude guesthouses.

   Grammar Note

   At high altitude, water boils at ~90°C. Always drink boiled or purified water. Some guesthouses provide hot water via solar heaters.

4. གཉིད་ཁྲི་གཉིས་ཡོད་པའི་ཁང་མིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Nyi-tri nyi yö-pe khang-mik yö-dam?

   Do you have a twin room?

   Usage

   Requesting a room with two beds.

   Grammar Note

   The relative clause "yö-pe" (that has/which has) modifies the following noun. Tibetan relative clauses precede the noun, formed with "verb + pe."

5. ཁང་མིག་འདི་བདེ་འཇགས་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Khang-mik di de-jak yin-nam?

   Is this room safe?

   Usage

   Checking the security of a room.

   Grammar Note

   Question form "yin-nam?" Accommodation quality varies greatly between cities and rural areas in Tibet. Monastery guesthouses are typically safe and clean.

6. ད་ལྟ་འཇུག་རོགས།

   Da-ta juk-rok

   I would like to check in, please

   Usage

   Used when arriving and checking into accommodation.

   Grammar Note

   "Rok" is a request particle placed after a verb, equivalent to "please." It is the most common way to make polite requests in Tibetan.

7. ཕྱིར་འབུད་ཀྱི་དུས་ཚོད་གང་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Chhir-bü-kyi dü-tsö gang yin-nam?

   What time is check-out?

   Usage

   Asking about the check-out time.

   Grammar Note

   "Dü-tsö gang yin-nam?" (what time is it?) is essential for travelers. Tibetan time expressions sometimes mix Tibetan and Chinese influences in modern usage.

8. གཟིམ་ཁང་འདི་ཧ་ཅང་བཙོག་པ་རེད།

   Zim-khang di ha-chang tsog-pa re

   This room is very dirty

   Usage

   Expressing that the room has a cleanliness problem.

   Grammar Note

   "Zim-khang" is the honorific form of "room" (ordinary: "nyi-khang"). "Ha-chang" is an intensifier meaning "very," placed before the adjective "tsog-pa" (dirty). Sentence-final "re" states it as a fact.

9. གཟིམ་ཁང་གཞན་གཞན་གཅིག་གནང་རོགས།

   Zim-khang zhen-zhen chig nang-rok

   Please change me to a different room

   Usage

   Requesting a room change.

   Grammar Note

   Reduplication of "zhen" as "zhen-zhen" emphasizes "another/different." Tibetan sometimes uses reduplication for emphasis or plurality.

10. གཟིམ་ཁང་གཙང་མར་བཟོ་རོགས།

    Zim-khang tsang-mar zo-rok

    Please clean the room

    Usage

    Requesting housekeeping service.

    Grammar Note

    "Tsang-mar zo" is a compound meaning "make clean." Tibetan adverbs precede the verb. Adding "rok" after the verb makes it a polite request.

11. ཆུ་གཙང་མ་གཞན་གཅིག་གནང་རོགས།

    Chu-tsang-ma zhen chig nang-rok

    Please give me another towel

    Usage

    Requesting an additional towel or amenity.

    Grammar Note

    "Chu-tsang-ma" literally means "water-cleaning cloth," a Tibetan compound for towel. Rather than borrowing, Tibetan often compounds existing words for new concepts.

12. སྔས།

    Nge

    Pillow

    Usage

    Point at it when asking the front desk for an item

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