Traveling with Kids

1. ཕྲུ་གུ་སྨན་ཁང་ག་པར་ཡོད།

   Tru-gu men-khang ga-par yö

   Where is the children's hospital?

   Usage

   Emergency phrase for finding medical care for a sick child during family travel

   Grammar Note

   "Tru-gu" is the most common Tibetan word for child. "Ga-par yö" forms a location question

2. ཕྲུ་གུ་ལ་ཁ་ལག་གི་དཀར་ཆག་ཅིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Tru-gu la kha-lag gi kar-chag chig yö-dam

   Is there a children's menu?

   Usage

   Used at restaurants to ask for a children's menu. Tibetan food can be quite spicy

   Grammar Note

   "Kar-chag" means catalog/menu ("kha-lag gi kar-chag" = the food menu). "Yö-dam" forms the question

3. ཕྲུ་གུ་ཚོའི་རྩེད་མོ་ག་པར་ཡོད།

   Tru-gu tshö tse-mo ga-par yö

   Where is the children's playground?

   Usage

   Used to find a playground during family travel. Parks and playgrounds exist in Lhasa

   Grammar Note

   "Tshö" is a plural suffix so "tru-gu tshö" means "children (plural)" (genitive "tshö-i" = "children's"). The location question pattern is widely used

4. ཕྲུ་གུར་ཁྲི་ཅིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Tru-gur khri chig yö-dam

   Is there a baby chair for the child?

   Usage

   Used at restaurants to request a high chair or baby seat

   Grammar Note

   "Khri" means "chair/seat" (it also appears in "nyi-khri" = bed). "Tru-gur" is the dative form meaning "for the child"

5. ཕྲུ་གུའི་ལྡི་གོང་ཅི་རེད།

   Tru-gu di gong chi-re

   What is the admission fee for children?

   Usage

   Used to check child admission prices at tourist attractions

   Grammar Note

   "Chi-re" is a general question "what is it/how much." The genitive "gi" marks "children's"

6. གསང་སྤྱོད་ག་པར་ཡོད།

   Sang-chö ga-par yö

   Where is the restroom?

   Usage

   Used urgently to find a restroom during family travel. Restrooms can be limited at Tibetan tourist sites

   Grammar Note

   "Sang-chö" is the Tibetan word for toilet/restroom. The location question pattern applies to any place

7. ཕྲུ་གུར་ཡིད་འཕྲོགས་ཅིག་ཡོད་དམ།

   Tru-gur yi-trog chig yö-dam

   Is there an activity children will enjoy?

   Usage

   Used at accommodations or tourist sites to ask about child-friendly activities

   Grammar Note

   "Yi-trog" literally means "captures the mind" — used for "enjoyable/appealing"

8. ཕྲུ་གུར་གླིང་ཀར་གཅིག་གནང་རོགས།

   Tru-gur gling-kar chig nang-rok

   Please give a snack for the child

   Usage

   Used to request a snack for a child. Suitable at cafes or hotel lobbies

   Grammar Note

   The dative "tru-gur" means "for the child." "Nang-rok" is the polite honorific request

9. ཕྲུ་གུར་གཞོན་ལ་ཐེ་ཚོམ་མི་འདུག

   Tru-gu zhön la the-tsom mi-dug

   Is it safe for children?

   Usage

   Used to confirm safety for children at tourist sites or activities. Especially important in high altitude areas

   Grammar Note

   "Mi-dug" is the negative evidential meaning "is not/no problem." Safety checks are essential for Tibet travel

10. ཕྲུ་གུ་བོད་སྐད་གཅིག་སློབས་དགའ་གི་རེད།

    Tru-gu Bö-ke chig lob dga-gi-re

    The child wants to learn a Tibetan word

    Usage

    Used to request that a local teaches a child a Tibetan word. A great cultural exchange opportunity

    Grammar Note

    "Dga" means "to like/want" expressing desire. Cultural exchanges between locals and children are highlights of the trip

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