ད་ལྟ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་རེད།
Da ta chu tsö ga tsö re?
What time is it?
Usage
Most basic expression to ask the time
Grammar Note
"chu tsö" lit. "water measure" = time/hour
དེ་རིང་གཟའ་ཉི་མ་ཡིན་ནམ།
Dering za nyima yin nam?
Is today Sunday?
Usage
Confirming the day of the week
Grammar Note
Tibetan weekdays based on planets; nyima=sun=Sunday
དེ་རིང་། སང་ཉིན། ཁ་སང་།
Dering. Sang nyin. Kha sang.
Today. Tomorrow. Yesterday.
Usage
Basic time reference vocabulary
Grammar Note
"sang" = "next"; "nyin" = "day"
གཟའ་འཁོར་འདི། གཟའ་འཁོར་རྗེས་མ། གཟའ་འཁོར་སྔ་མ།
Za kor di. Za kor jema. Za kor nga ma.
This week. Next week. Last week.
Usage
Week-based time references
Grammar Note
"za kor" lit. "circle of weekdays" = week
ཞོགས་པར། ཉི་གུང་ལ། ཕྱི་དྲོར། མཚན་མོར།
Zhokpar. Nyigung la. Chi dror. Tsenmor.
In the morning. At noon. In the afternoon. At night.
Usage
Expressing different parts of the day
Grammar Note
"-r" marks time dative "at/in"
དེ་རིང་ཚེས་ག་ཚོད་རེད།
Dering tse katso re?
What is today's date?
Usage
Basic question for today's date
Grammar Note
"tse" = "date" refers to day of the month
ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ལ་སྒོ་ཕྱེ་གི་རེད། ག་ཚོད་ལ་སྒོ་རྒྱག་གི་རེད།
Chu tsö ga tsö la go che gi re? Ga tsö la go gyag gi re?
At what time does it open? Close?
Usage
Asking for opening and closing times
Grammar Note
"chu-tshoe … la" = "at … o'clock". Both opening and closing are expressed with compound verbs built on སྒོ (door)
དེར་འགྲོ་ལ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་དགོས།
Der dro la chu tsod katso go?
How long will it take to get there?
Usage
Asking how long it takes to travel
Grammar Note
"-la ... go" = "needed in order to ~"
ཕྱི་དྲོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་གསུམ་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་།
Chi dro chu tsod sum la jal yong.
Let's meet at 3 pm.
Usage
Setting a meeting time
Grammar Note
"yong" = volitional "let's"
ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་སྐར་མ་སུམ་ཅུ། ཆུ་ཚོད་ལྔ་ལ་སྐར་མ་བཅོ་ལྔ་ཕབ།
Chu tsod nyi kyi karma sumchu. Chu tsod nga la karma chonga phab.
Half past two. Quarter to five.
Usage
How to express specific times
Grammar Note
"karma" = "star/minute" from observing stars
གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་དང་གཟའ་ཉི་མར་ཕྱེ་ཡོད་དམ།
Za penpa dang za nyimar che yo dam?
Is it open on weekends?
Usage
Checking weekend operating hours
Grammar Note
The weekend is expressed by naming Saturday (za penpa) and Sunday (za nyima); "dang" = "and"
ད་ལྟ་དུས་ཁུལ་ག་རེ་ཡིན།
Danta dü khul kare yin?
What time zone are we in?
Usage
Asking about the current time zone
Grammar Note
"dü khul" = "time zone/region"
སྔ་དྲགས། ཕྱི་དྲགས།
Nga drak. Chi drak.
It's too early. It's too late.
Usage
Expressing timing problems
Grammar Note
"-drak" = excessive suffix "too ~"
ནམ་ལ་འགོ་བཞུགས། ནམ་ལ་མཇུག་རྫོགས།
Nam la go zhuk? Nam la juk dzok?
When does it start? When does it end?
Usage
Asking for start and end times
Grammar Note
"nam la" = "when"
གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་གཟའ་པ་སངས་བར།
Za dawa ne za pasang bar.
From Monday to Friday.
Usage
Expressing the weekday range
Grammar Note
Tibetan weekdays: nyima(Sun), dawa(Mon), mikmar(Tue), lhakpa(Wed), phurbu(Thu), pasang(Fri), penpa(Sat)
ད་ལྟ་ཟླ་བ་ག་རེ་རེད།
Danta dawa kare re?
What month is it?
Usage
Asking about the current month
Grammar Note
"dawa" means both the moon and month
ཚེས་དང་ཆུ་ཚོད་ [ཚེས་ / ཆུ་ཚོད་] ལ་ཐུགས་མཇལ་ཞུ་འདོད།
Tse dang chu tsod la thuk jal zhu do.
I'd like to make an appointment for [date/time].
Usage
Formal phrasing for making an appointment
Grammar Note
"zhu" = respectful "request/humbly do"
ཉིན་གཅིག
Nyin chik
One day
Usage
Basic vocabulary for stating a duration.
ཟླ་གཅིག
Dawa chik
One month
Usage
Use to state a one-month duration.
ལོ་གཅིག
Lo chik
One year
Usage
Use to state a one-year duration.
གཟའ་ཟླ་བ
Za dawa
Monday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Monday.
གཟའ་མིག་དམར
Za mikmar
Tuesday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Tuesday.
གཟའ་ལྷག་པ
Za lhakpa
Wednesday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Wednesday.
གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ
Za phurbu
Thursday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Thursday.
གཟའ་པ་སངས
Za pasang
Friday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Friday.
གཟའ་སྤེན་པ
Za penpa
Saturday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Saturday.
གཟའ་ཉི་མ
Za nyima
Sunday
Usage
Use to point to or state the day Sunday.
དེ་རིང
Dering
Today
Usage
Use to point to or state today.
སང་ཉིན
Sang nyin
Tomorrow
Usage
Use to point to or state tomorrow.
ཁ་སང
Kha sang
Yesterday
Usage
Use to point to or state yesterday.
ད་ལྟ
Danta
Now
Usage
Use to point to or state the present moment.
ཞོགས་པ
Zhokpa
Morning
Usage
Use to point to or state the morning.
ཉི་གུང
Nyigung
Midday
Usage
Use to point to or state midday.
དགོང་མོ
Gong mo
Evening
Usage
Use to point to or state the evening.
མཚན་མོ
Tsenmo
Night
Usage
Use to point to or state the night.
གཟའ་འཁོར་འདི
Za kor di
This week
Usage
Use to point to or state this week.
གཟའ་འཁོར་རྗེས་མ
Za kor jema
Next week
Usage
Use to point to or state next week.
གཟའ་འཁོར་སྔ་མ
Za kor nga ma
Last week
Usage
Use to point to or state last week.
ཕྱི་ཟླ་དང་པོ།
Chi da dang po
January
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་གཉིས་པ།
Chi da nyi pa
February
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་གསུམ་པ།
Chi da sum pa
March
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བཞི་པ།
Chi da zhi pa
April
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ།
Chi da nga pa
May
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་དྲུག་པ།
Chi da drug pa
June
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ།
Chi da dün pa
July
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ།
Chi da gye pa
August
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པ།
Chi da gu pa
September
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ།
Chi da chu pa
October
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ།
Chi da chu chig pa
November
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
ཕྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
Chi da chu nyi pa
December
Usage
A Gregorian month. The prefix phyi zla marks it as a Western month, not a Tibetan-calendar month
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