Remote Work

1. ཉེ་འདབས་སུ་ལས་ཁུངས་མཉམ་སྦྲེལ་ཁང་ཡོད་དམ།

   Nye-dab-su le-khung nyam-drel-khang yod-dam?

   Is there a coworking space nearby?

   Usage

   Use when looking for a coworking space nearby

   Grammar Note

   "khang" means "building/place" and is widely used in facility names

2. དྲ་རྒྱའི་གསང་གྲངས་ག་རེ་རེད།

   Dra-gye sang-drang ga-re red?

   What is the WiFi password?

   Usage

   Ask for the WiFi password at a café or hotel

   Grammar Note

   "ga-re red" asks "what is it"

3. དྲ་རྒྱ་འདི་བརྡ་འཕྲིན་ཐད་ཀར་གནང་ལ་འོས་ཤི་ཡོད་དམ།

   Dra-gye di da-trin tad-kar-nang-la o-shi yod-dam?

   Is the WiFi fast enough for video calls?

   Usage

   Check WiFi speed before starting remote work

   Grammar Note

   "o-shi yod-dam" asks if something is adequate

4. ཞི་གནས་ས་ཆ་གམ་གཅིག་འདུས་ཁྱིམ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Zhi-ne sa-cha gam chig-du khyim yod-dam?

   Do you have a quiet area or private booth?

   Usage

   Look for a quiet space to concentrate on work

   Grammar Note

   "gam" is a conjunction meaning "or"

5. འདིར་ཉིན་རངས་ལས་ཀ་བྱེད་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Dir nyin-rang le-ka je-thub-kyi-red-dam?

   Can I work here all day?

   Usage

   Ask if you can work all day at a café or workspace

   Grammar Note

   "je-thub-kyi-red-dam" politely asks about the possibility of doing an action. "All day long" is ཉིན་རངས; ཉིན་གུང means "noon" and is a different word

6. ཡིག་ཆ་གཏིང་རྒྱུ་གམ་བཀལ་རྒྱུ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Yig-cha ting-gyu gam kel-gyu yod-dam?

   I need to print / scan a document.

   Usage

   Ask about printing or scanning services

   Grammar Note

   "gam" presents two options: print or scan

7. འདིའི་ཐག་གི་འཕྲུལ་ཁང་ལ་གློག་སྒོར་ཡོད་དམ།

   Di-yi tag-gi trul-khang-la lok-sor yod-dam?

   Is there a power outlet near this seat?

   Usage

   Check if a power outlet is available near your seat

   Grammar Note

   "tag-gi" is a postposition meaning "near/beside"

8. ང་ལ་[ཆུ་ཚོད]ལ་དྲ་བའི་གཞུང་འཛིན་ཡོད།

   Nga-la [chu-tsod]-la dra-we zung-dzin yod

   I have an online meeting at [time].

   Usage

   Inform others of your online meeting to request quiet

   Grammar Note

   "yod" expresses existence or possession

9. ཉིན་གཅིག་གམ་ཟླ་གཅིག་གི་རིན་ག་ཙམ་རེད།

   Nyin-chig gam da-chig gi rin ga-tsam red?

   What is the price for a day pass / monthly membership?

   Usage

   Ask about day pass or monthly membership pricing

   Grammar Note

   "gam" presents the two pricing options

10. ལང་སྡོད་ལྡེབ་ཆིག་ཡོད་དམ།

    Lang-dö deb-chig yod-dam?

    Is there a standing desk available?

    Usage

    Check for ergonomic standing desk availability

    Grammar Note

    "lang-dö deb-chig" literally means "standing table" for standing desk

11. གཟུགས་ཤིང་གམ་གང་ཟིན་ས་ཡོད་དམ།

    Zug-shing gam gang-zin-sa yod-dam?

    Is there a locker or storage I can use?

    Usage

    Ask about locker or storage facilities

    Grammar Note

    "gam" presents two parallel options

12. དྲ་རྒྱ་ཤིན་ཏུ་གྱང་ཏང་རེད། མགྱོགས་པ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Dra-gye shin-tu gyang-tang red. Gyog-pa yod-dam?

    The internet is too slow — is there a faster connection?

    Usage

    Request a faster connection when internet is too slow

    Grammar Note

    "shin-tu" is an intensifying adverb meaning "very/extremely"

13. ལས་ཀའི་ཆེད་གྲངས་ཐོབ་ལྟེ་ཐར་ཀ་ཉོ་དགོས།

    Le-ka-yi che drang-tob te-tar-ka nyo-go

    I'd like to buy a SIM card with data for work.

    Usage

    Purchase a data SIM card for work purposes

    Grammar Note

    "che" is a postposition meaning "for the purpose of"

14. གདན་འདི་སྟོང་པ་རེད་དམ།

    Den di tong-pa re-dam?

    Is this seat available?

    Usage

    Check if a seat is free at a café or coworking space

    Grammar Note

    "-re-dam" forms a yes/no question. "Seat" is གདན. ཁྱིམ means "house" and གདན་ས means "monastic seat", so neither can mean "a vacant seat"

15. སྔར་ཁ་ལྡེབ་ཆིག་ཉར་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

    Ngar-kha deb-chig nyar-thub-kyi-red-dam?

    Can I reserve a desk in advance?

    Usage

    Ask if you can book a desk in advance

    Grammar Note

    "nyar-thub-kyi-red-dam" politely asks if reservation is possible

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