Laundry

1. ན་བཟའ་བཀྲུ་གྲུབ་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Na-za tru-drub yin-nam?

   Is laundry service available?

   Usage

   Used to ask if laundry service is available at a guesthouse or hotel.

   Grammar Note

   "Tru-drub" can mean "can wash" (ability) or "finished washing" (completion). "Drub" is a versatile verb indicating completion or capability.

2. ན་བཟའ་བཀྲུ་སར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Na-za tru-sar gang-du yod?

   Where is the laundromat?

   Usage

   Used to find a laundromat or place to do laundry.

   Grammar Note

   "Tru-sar" = "washing place" — a compound of "to wash" (tru) + "place" (sar). A productive pattern in Tibetan for forming place names.

3. ན་བཟའ་འདི་ཚ་ཆུས་བཀྲུ་རོགས།

   Na-za di tsha-chu tru rok

   Please wash these clothes in hot water.

   Usage

   Used to specify hot water when asking for laundry service.

   Grammar Note

   "Tsha-chu" = "hot water," a compound of "tsha" (hot) + "chu" (water). Simple attributive compounds are common in Tibetan.

4. ཉི་མར་བཤམ་ནས་བསྐམ་རོགས།

   Nyi-mar sham-ne kam rok

   Please dry them in the sun.

   Usage

   Used to request sun-drying after washing. Sun-drying is common in Tibet's high altitude climate.

   Grammar Note

   Tibet's high altitude brings intense sunshine and low humidity, making sun-drying very effective. "Ne" links sequential actions: "lay out and then dry."

5. ན་བཟའ་བཀྲུ་རིན་ཇི་ཙམ་རེད།

   Na-za tru-rin ji-tsam re?

   How much does laundry cost?

   Usage

   Used to ask the price of a laundry service.

   Grammar Note

   "Ji-tsam" is the standard question word for quantity or price: "how much." Used in all pricing inquiries in Tibetan.

6. ན་བཟའ་གྲུབ་ཚར་ཡི་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Na-za drub-tsar yi yin-nam?

   Is the laundry done?

   Usage

   Used to ask whether the laundry has been finished.

   Grammar Note

   "Drub-tsar" is an emphatic completion compound: "drub" (done) + "tsar" (finished/completely). Together they emphasize full completion.

7. འདི་ལ་ཤ་བ་མི་རྒྱགས།

   Di la sha-wa mi-gyag

   Please do not iron this.

   Usage

   Used to indicate that a garment should not be ironed.

   Grammar Note

   "Mi-" prefixed to an imperative forms a prohibition. "Sha-wa" is a colloquial term for an iron (pressing tool for clothes).

8. ན་བཟའ་འདི་གཙང་མར་བཀྲུ་དགོས།

   Na-za di tsang-mar tru dgos

   These clothes need to be washed clean.

   Usage

   Used when asking for thorough cleaning of a particularly dirty garment.

   Grammar Note

   "Tsang-mar" is the adverbial form of "tsang-ma" (clean), formed by adding the adverbializer "r." Tibetan converts adjectives to adverbs with this suffix.

9. སང་ཉིན་ལེན་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Sang-nyin len thub-kyi re-dam?

   Can I pick it up tomorrow?

   Usage

   Used to confirm when laundry will be ready for collection.

   Grammar Note

   "Sang-nyin" means "tomorrow" (the same word as in the nightlife and time cards). "Len" means "to receive/pick up." "Thub-kyi re-dam" asks "can ~?"

10. ན་བཟའ་འདི་བསྐམ་གྲུབ་ཡོད།

    Na-za di kam-drub yod

    These clothes are dry.

    Usage

    Used to report or confirm that laundry has dried.

    Grammar Note

    "Kam-drub yod" is a present-perfect construction: "dried-completed is," meaning the drying is done and the result persists. "Yod" marks the resulting state.

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