Public Transport

1. གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱི་དཀྱིལ་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་སྦུས་མོ་གང་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Drong khyer gyi kyil du dro we bü mo gang yin nam?

   Which bus goes to the city center?

   Usage

   Used at a bus stop to find the correct bus to the city center

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan follows SOV word order. The question particle "nam" is added at the end

2. [གནས་ཡུལ་] ལ་གོལ་ས་ག་ཚོད་ཡོད།

   [Ne yül] la göl sa ga tsö yö?

   How many stops to [destination]?

   Usage

   Used to ask the number of stops to a destination

   Grammar Note

   "ga tsö" is the Tibetan question word for quantity

3. འདིར་བབ་ཡག་གནང་རོགས།

   Dir bap yak nang rok.

   Please let me off here.

   Usage

   Used to politely ask the driver to let you off here

   Grammar Note

   "nang rok" is a polite/honorific request expression

4. སྡོད་ས་འདི་གཞན་གྱིས་ཚང་བ་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Dö sa di zhen gyi tsang ba yin nam?

   Is this seat taken?

   Usage

   Used to check if a seat is occupied

   Grammar Note

   In Tibetan, verbs come at the end. The particle "nam" forms questions

5. མཇུག་མའི་སྦུས་མོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་གང་དུས་ཡིན།

   Juk me bü mo chu tsö gang dü yin?

   What time is the last bus?

   Usage

   Used to find out when the last bus departs

   Grammar Note

   "chu tsö" is the Tibetan word for time/hour

6. ཀར་ཏ་གང་དུ་ཉོ་རུང་།

   Kar ta gang du nyo rung?

   Where can I buy a ticket?

   Usage

   Used to ask where to buy a transport ticket

   Grammar Note

   "rung" expresses possibility or permission

7. སྦུས་མོ་འདི་ཚོང་ར་ལ་གོལ་སའི་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Bü mo di tsong ra la göl se yin nam?

   Does this bus stop at the market?

   Usage

   Used to confirm whether the bus stops at the market

   Grammar Note

   "yin nam?" forms a confirmatory yes/no question

8. བྱེ་མར་གང་ནས་འགྱེལ་བ་ཡིན།

   Je mar gang ne gyel ba yin?

   Which platform does it depart from?

   Usage

   Used at a station to find the departure platform

   Grammar Note

   "gang ne" means "from where" with the ablative postposition "ne"

9. དྲང་པོའི་ལམ་ཡོད་ནམ།

   Drang pö lam yö nam?

   Is there a direct route?

   Usage

   Used to ask if there is a direct route

   Grammar Note

   "yö nam?" forms an existential question "is there?"

10. འགྲུལ་བཞུད་ལ་དུས་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་དགོས།

    Drül zhü la dü tsö ga tsö gö?

    How long does the journey take?

    Usage

    Used to ask the duration of the journey

    Grammar Note

    "gö" means "need/require" and is used to express duration

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