Hot Springs & Baths

18 phrases · Tibetan with romanization, English and audio

  1. ཆུ་ཚན་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

    Chu tsen gang du yö?

    Where is the hot spring / public bath?

    Usage

    Asking where the hot spring or public bath is

    Grammar Note

    "yö" = existential verb "there is/is located"

  2. ལུས་བཀྲུས་པའི་དུས་ཚོད་ག་དུས་རེད།

    Lü trü pé dü tsö ga dü re?

    What are the bathing hours?

    Usage

    Asking about bathing hours

    Grammar Note

    "ga dü" = "when" question word

  3. ལུས་ལ་རི་མོ་བྲིས་པ་ཡོད་པའི་མི་ནང་འཛུལ་ཆོག་གམ།

    Lü la ri mo tri pa yö pé mi nang dzul chok gam?

    Are people with tattoos allowed?

    Usage

    Checking if tattoos are allowed at the bath

    Grammar Note

    "chok gam" = permission question "is it allowed to ... ?". No dedicated word for "tattoo" could be confirmed, so it is expressed as "a pattern drawn on the body"

  4. ཆུ་མཛོད་ཕོ་མོ་འདྲེས་པ་ཡིན་ནམ། ཡང་ན་སོ་སོ་ཡིན་ནམ།

    Chu dzö pho mo dre pa yin nam? Yang na so so yin nam?

    Are the baths mixed-gender or separated?

    Usage

    Checking if baths are mixed or separated by gender

    Grammar Note

    "yin nam" = "is it ...?" question form. "so so" = "separate"

  5. ཁང་མིག་གཅིག་པའི་ལུས་བཀྲུས་ས་དེ་བླས་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Khang mik chik pé lü trü sa de le thub bam?

    Is there a private bath / room available?

    Usage

    Asking about private bath availability

    Grammar Note

    "thub bam" = possibility question

  6. ཆུའི་ཚ་གྲང་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

    Chu yi tsa drang katso re?

    What is the water temperature?

    Usage

    Asking about the water temperature

    Grammar Note

    "re" = 3rd-person copula

  7. ལུས་ཕྱི་རས་ཐོབ་ཐུབ་བམ། ཡང་ན་བླས་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Lü chi ra tob thub bam? Yang na le thub bam?

    Are towels provided or available to rent?

    Usage

    Asking whether towels are provided or need to be rented

    Grammar Note

    "yang na" = "or" alternative conjunction

  8. ཆུ་མཛོད་ནང་འཛུལ་སྔོན་གང་དུ་ལུས་བཀྲུ་དགོས་རེད།

    Chu dzö nang dzul ngön gang du lü tru gö re?

    Where should I wash before entering the bath?

    Usage

    Asking about washing before entering the bath

    Grammar Note

    "gö re" = obligatory "must/need to"

  9. ནང་གི་དང་ཕྱི་རོལ་གྱི་ཆུ་མཛོད་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་པར་ག་རེ་རེད།

    Nang gi dang chi rol gyi chu dzö kyi khye par ga re re?

    What are the differences between the indoor and outdoor pools?

    Usage

    Asking about indoor vs. outdoor bath differences

    Grammar Note

    "khye par" = "difference"

  10. ཆུ་ཚ་དྲགས་སོང་། ལྷིང་ལྷིང་གི་ཆུ་མཛོད་གཞན་ཡོད་དམ།

    Chu tsa drak song. Lhing lhing gi chu dzö zhen yö dam?

    The water is very hot — is there a cooler pool?

    Usage

    Looking for a cooler pool when water is too hot

    Grammar Note

    "drak song" = "became too much/excessive"

  11. ཆུ་ཚན་འདིར་ལྕགས་རྫས་གང་ཡོད་རེད།

    Chu tsen dir chak dzé gang yö re?

    What minerals are in this spring?

    Usage

    Asking about the mineral content of the spring

    Grammar Note

    "yö re" = 3rd-person existential "there are"

  12. ཅ་ཆས་བཞག་སའི་སྒམ་ཇི་ལྟར་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་དམ།

    Cha ché zhak sé gam ji tar bé chö jé dam?

    How do I use the locker?

    Usage

    Asking how to use the locker

    Grammar Note

    "ji tar" = "how" method question

  13. ནང་དུ་ཁ་པར་དང་པར་ཆས་མ་ཁྱེར།

    Nang du kha par dang par ché ma khyer.

    Please don't bring your phone or camera inside.

    Usage

    Instructing someone not to bring electronics inside

    Grammar Note

    "ma" + verb = negative imperative

  14. ད་ལྟ་ཇི་ལྟ་བུའི་དུས་ཚོད་རིང་ལུས་བཀྲུ་བྱས་ན་ལེགས།

    Da lta ji ta bu dü tsö ring lü tru jé na lek?

    How long should I soak?

    Usage

    Asking the recommended soaking time

    Grammar Note

    "lek" = "good/ideal" recommendation particle

  15. ཆུ་ཚན་དང་སྡོད་ཁང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལས་འཆར་ཡོད་དམ།

    Chu tsen dang dö khang nyi kyi lé char yö dam?

    Do you offer an onsen ryokan package?

    Usage

    Asking about onsen ryokan packages

    Grammar Note

    "yö dam" = existence question "Is there / Do you have"

  16. འཛུལ་ཞུགས་ཀྱི་གོང་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

    Dzul zhuk kyi gong katso re?

    What is the entry fee?

    Usage

    Asking about the entry fee

    Grammar Note

    "katso re" = "how much is it?" price question

  17. འདིར་ཟ་ཁང་ངམ་ཟས་སྤྲོད་པའི་ཞབས་ཞུ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Dir sa khang ngam sa tröp pé zhab zhu yö dam?

    Is there a restaurant or food service here?

    Usage

    Checking for restaurant or food service on site

    Grammar Note

    "ngam" = "or" alternative particle

  18. ཆུ་ཚན་འདིས་ལུས་ཁམས་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་གང་ཡོད་རེད།

    Chu tsen di lü kham la pen tok gang yö re?

    What health benefits does this spring have?

    Usage

    Asking about health benefits of the spring

    Grammar Note

    "pen tok yö" = "there are benefits"

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