Skiing & Winter Sports

1. གངས་རྒྱུགས་ལག་ཆ་གང་དུ་བླས་འཐུ་ཐུབ།

   Gang gyuk lakcha gang du le tu thub?

   Where can I rent ski equipment?

   Usage

   Finding where to rent ski equipment

   Grammar Note

   "gang gyuk" lit. "snow running" = skiing

2. ཉིན་གཅིག་གི་གངས་ལམ་ཤོག་བྱང་ཉོ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Nyin chik gi gang lam shok chang nyo thub bam?

   Can I get a ski pass for the day?

   Usage

   Purchasing a day ski pass

   Grammar Note

   "nyin chik gi" = "of one day"

3. གཞི་རྒྱུགས་མི་ལ་ཡག་ཤོས་གངས་ལམ་གང་ཡིན།

   Zhigyuk mi la yak sho gang lam gang yin?

   Which slope is recommended for beginners?

   Usage

   Selecting a beginner-friendly slope

   Grammar Note

   "yak sho" = "best" superlative

4. གངས་རྒྱུགས་སློབ་སྦྱོང་ཉར་འདོད།

   Gang gyuk lob jong nyar do.

   I'd like to book a ski lesson.

   Usage

   Booking a ski lesson

   Grammar Note

   "nyar do" = "want to reserve"

5. ཤར་ཐང་ལ་འཁྱེར་མཁན་གྱི་སྐྱིལ་འཁོར་གང་དུ་ཡོད།

   Shar tang la khyer khen gi kyil kor gang du yo?

   Where is the chairlift?

   Usage

   Asking where the chairlift is

   Grammar Note

   "khyer khen" = "thing that carries"

6. གངས་ལམ་ཁར་ད་རིང་གངས་རྡོ་རེད་དམ། གངས་ཐལ་རེད་དམ།

   Gang lam khar dering gang do re dam? Gang thal re dam?

   Is the slope icy or powdery today?

   Usage

   Checking today's snow conditions on the slope

   Grammar Note

   "gang do" = "snow stone" = icy surface

7. ཁྱེད་རང་ལྷུང་བྱུང་། གནོད་སྐྱོན་ཐེབས་སམ།

   Khyerang lhung jung. No kyon theb sam?

   You fell. Are you hurt?

   Usage

   Checking on someone who fell

   Grammar Note

   "theb sam" = "did it happen?" question

8. གངས་ལམ་འདིའི་དཀའ་ཚད་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་ག་རེ་རེད།

   Gang lam di yi katse kyi rimpa kare re?

   What is the difficulty rating of this slope?

   Usage

   Asking about the difficulty level of a slope

   Grammar Note

   "rimpa" = "level/tier"

9. ཉེ་བར་ཇ་ཁང་ཡོད་དམ།

   Nyebar ja khang yo dam?

   Is there a café or warming area nearby?

   Usage

   Looking for a nearby rest area or café

   Grammar Note

   "nyebar" = "nearby/close"

10. གངས་ལྐོག་བླས་འཐུ་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Gang kok le tu thub bam?

    Do you rent snowboards?

    Usage

    Checking snowboard rental availability

    Grammar Note

    "gang kok" = "snow board" = snowboard

11. ངའི་གངས་རྒྱུགས་འབྱིང་ཤུལ་ཆག་སོང་། བཅོས་ཐུབ་བམ།

    Ngai gang gyuk jing shul chak song. Cho thub bam?

    My ski binding is loose. Can you fix it?

    Usage

    Requesting repair of a ski binding

    Grammar Note

    "chak song" = "broke (perfective)"

12. གངས་ལམ་གྱི་རི་མོ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gang lam gi rimo yo dam?

    Do you have a slope or trail map?

    Usage

    Getting a ski resort trail map

    Grammar Note

    "rimo" = drawing/map depending on context

13. རྐྱེན་ངན་བྱུང་། གངས་སྲུང་མི་གཏོང་རོགས།

    Kyen ngen jung. Gang srung mi tong rok.

    There's been an accident. Please call ski patrol.

    Usage

    Alerting others to a ski accident emergency

    Grammar Note

    Kyen-ngen means "obstacle / calamity", as in "lobur gyi kyen-ngen jung-wa" (a sudden accident occurred) — the same jung (occurred) frame used here. "tong rok" = "please send/call". There is no fixed word for "ski patrol". "Gang srung mi" is a transparent descriptive compound of snow + guard + person.

14. སང་ཉིན་གྱི་གནམ་གཤིས་ལུང་བསྟན་ག་འདྲ་ཡིན།

    Sang nyin gyi namshi lung ten kadra yin?

    What's the weather forecast for tomorrow?

    Usage

    Checking tomorrow's weather for skiing

    Grammar Note

    "lung ten" = "forecast", the word used for weather forecasts

15. གངས་སྡེ་ད་རིང་ཕྱེ་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gang de dering che yo dam?

    Is the resort open today?

    Usage

    Checking if the ski resort is open

    Grammar Note

    "gang de" = "snow settlement" = ski resort

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