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"
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
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"
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"
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
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
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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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