Markets & Souvenirs

1. འདིའི་རིན་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

   Di rin katso re?

   How much does this cost?

   Usage

   Basic price inquiry at a market

   Grammar Note

   "re" is the 3rd-person copula

2. རིན་ཐོ་བཤོལ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Rin tho shol thub bam?

   Can we negotiate the price?

   Usage

   Opening a price negotiation

   Grammar Note

   "thub" = potential auxiliary

3. ང་གོང་ཆུང་བ་ཞིག་ཚོང་ཐུབ།

   Nga gong chung wa zhik tsong thub.

   I'll offer a lower price.

   Usage

   Offering a lower counter-price

   Grammar Note

   "gong chung" = "lower price"

4. ཁག་ཕབ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Khab phab thub bam?

   Can I get a discount?

   Usage

   Requesting a discount

   Grammar Note

   "-bam" is an interrogative particle

5. འདི་ལག་པས་བཟོས་པ་རེད་དམ།

   Di lak pe zo pa re dam?

   Is this handmade?

   Usage

   Checking if the item is handmade

   Grammar Note

   "-s" is the instrumental marker

6. འདི་ག་རེའི་རྫས་ཀྱིས་བཟོས་པ་རེད།

   Di kare yi dze kyi zo pa re?

   What material is this made of?

   Usage

   Asking about the material composition

   Grammar Note

   "-kyi" is the instrumental case marker

7. གདུང་ཁུག་ལ་འཇུག་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Dung khuk la juk thub bam?

   Can you gift-wrap this?

   Usage

   Requesting gift wrapping for a souvenir

   Grammar Note

   "thub" = potential "can"

8. མཚན་མོའི་ཚོང་ར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Tsenmoi tsong ra gang du yo?

   Where is the night market?

   Usage

   Asking for the location of the night market

   Grammar Note

   "gang du" = "where"

9. ཚོང་རེའུ་མིག་ཐོབ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Tsong rui mik thob thub bam?

   Can I have a receipt?

   Usage

   Requesting a receipt after purchase

   Grammar Note

   "thob thub" = "can receive"

10. ཚོང་ར་འདི་ནམ་ལས་ནམ་བར་ཕྱེ་ཡོད།

    Tsong ra di nam le nam bar che yo?

    What are the market opening hours?

    Usage

    Confirming market hours

    Grammar Note

    "nam le nam bar" = "from when to when"

11. ང་ལྟ་ཙམ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡིན། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

    Nga ta tsam che kyi yin. Thukje che.

    I'm just looking, thank you.

    Usage

    Politely declining a vendor's approach

    Grammar Note

    "tsam" = "only/just"

12. ཤོག་བྱང་ལ་ངུལ་གཏོང་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Shok chang la ngul tong thub bam?

    Do you accept card payment?

    Usage

    Checking if card payment is accepted

    Grammar Note

    "thub bam" = "can ... ?" question form

13. ང་འདི་དྲན་རྟགས་ལ་ཉོ་གི་ཡིན།

    Nga di drengtak la nyo gi yin.

    I'm buying this as a souvenir.

    Usage

    Stating the purchase is a souvenir

    Grammar Note

    "-la" marks purpose "as/for"

14. འདི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕར་གཏོང་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Di gyelkhab par tong thub bam?

    Can this be shipped internationally?

    Usage

    Inquiring about international shipping

    Grammar Note

    "par" indicates direction "to that side"

15. ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ཟིལ་གནོན་ཡོད་ཆ་ག་རེ་རེད།

    Khye kyi zilnon yo cha kare re?

    What's your best item?

    Usage

    Asking about the best/most recommended item

    Grammar Note

    "zilnon" = "outstanding/best"

16. རིན་འདི་འགྱུར་བ་གཏང་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Rin di gyurwa tang thub bam?

    Is this price negotiable?

    Usage

    Directly asking if the price is negotiable

    Grammar Note

    "gyurwa" = "change/alteration"

17. ཚད་གཞན་ཞིག་ཡོད་དམ།

    Tsad zhen zhik yo dam?

    Do you have a different size?

    Usage

    Looking for a different size option

    Grammar Note

    "-zhik" is an indefinite article

18. འདི་གོང་ཆེ་དྲགས།

    Di gong che drak

    This is too expensive.

    Usage

    Expressing that the price is too high

    Grammar Note

    "-drak" = "too" expressing excess

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