Sustainability & Eco

1. འདི་གང་དུ་སྐྱར་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་ཆོག་གམ།

   di gang du kyar chö je chok gam

   Where can I recycle this?

   Usage

   Used when asking for the location of a recycling point

   Grammar Note

   "chok gam?" is a Tibetan question form asking "is it okay / may I?"

2. ཡང་ཡང་སྤྱོད་ཆོག་པའི་ཤོག་ཀོང་ཡོད་དམ།

   yang yang chö chok pe shok kong yö dam

   Do you have reusable bags?

   Usage

   Used at shops when requesting reusable bags

   Grammar Note

   "yang yang chö chok pe" is a relative modifier meaning "that can be used repeatedly"

3. གནམ་གཤིས་ལ་བཟང་པོའི་གནས་སྡོད་ཁང་ཡོད་དམ།

   nam shi la zang pö ne dö khang yö dam

   Is there eco-friendly accommodation?

   Usage

   Used when searching for environmentally friendly lodging

   Grammar Note

   "nam shi la zang pö" is a modifier meaning "good for the environment / nature-friendly"

4. ང་རང་གི་ཆུ་སྣོད་གང་བར་བྱ་དགོས།

   nga rang gi chu nö gang bar ja gö

   I need to refill my water bottle.

   Usage

   Used when requesting to refill a personal water bottle

   Grammar Note

   "ja gö" expresses necessity in Tibetan, meaning "it is necessary to do"

5. ཤ་མེད་པའི་ཟས་སྣ་ཡོད་དམ།

   sha me pe ze na yö dam

   Are there vegetarian food options?

   Usage

   Used when asking for plant-based food options

   Grammar Note

   "sha me pe" describes "without meat" in Tibetan

6. … ལ་དམངས་སྐྱེལ་སྒོར་ཇི་ལྟར་འགྲོ་ཆོག་གམ།

   … la mang kyel gor ji tar dro chok gam

   How can I get to … by public transport?

   Usage

   Used when asking how to reach a destination using public transport

   Grammar Note

   "ji tar" is a Tibetan interrogative adverb meaning "how" or "in what manner"

7. ཉེ་འཁོར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ཚོང་རར་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་དགོས།

   nye khor gyi sa ne tsong rar gang du dro gö

   Where is the nearest local market?

   Usage

   Used when looking for a nearby local produce market

   Grammar Note

   "gang du dro gö?" means "where should one go?" — a directional question in Tibetan

8. གོང་ལྡེབ་ཉུང་ཉུང་མ་གཏོགས་མེད་པར་བྱོས།

   gong dep nyung nyung ma tok me par jö

   Please use as little packaging as possible.

   Usage

   Used when politely requesting reduced packaging

   Grammar Note

   "ma tok me par jö" is a command form meaning "please do without more than"

9. འདིར་ཞིང་ལམ་གཏུར་གྱི་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལས་གཞི་གང་ཡོད།

   dir zhing lam tur gyi kyel dren le zhi gang yö

   What eco-tourism activities are available here?

   Usage

   Used when looking for sustainable tourism experiences

   Grammar Note

   "gang yö?" is a Tibetan existential question meaning "what is there / what exists?"

10. ང་རང་གི་ལྕགས་རླུང་ལག་རྗེས་ཆུང་བར་བྱ་འདོད།

    nga rang gi chak lung lak je chung bar ja dö

    I want to reduce my carbon footprint.

    Usage

    Used when expressing desire to reduce or offset carbon emissions

    Grammar Note

    "ja dö" expresses desire in Tibetan, meaning "I wish to do" or "I want to"

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