Weather & Climate

1. དེ་རིང་ཚ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་འདུག

   De ring tsha wa chen po dug

   It's hot today

   Usage

   Weather comment in lower altitude Tibet or summer

   Grammar Note

   Tibetan marks evidentiality in verbs. "Dug" indicates directly perceived facts

2. ཆར་འབབ་ངེས་འདྲ་འདུག

   Char ab nge dra dug

   It looks like it will rain

   Usage

   Expression before or during Tibet's monsoon season

   Grammar Note

   "Nge dra" = "it seems certain" — an inferential expression

3. རླུང་འཚུབ་ཆེན་མོ་ཡོང་གི་འདུག

   Lung tsub chen mo yong gi dug

   A big storm is coming

   Usage

   Warning about an approaching storm

   Grammar Note

   The Tibetan Plateau features summer monsoons and winter blizzards

4. དེ་རིང་གྲང་མོ་ཡག་པོ་འདུག

   De ring drang mo yag po dug

   It's pleasantly cool today

   Usage

   Comment on cool Tibetan highland weather

   Grammar Note

   Tibet's high altitude means cool temperatures year-round. "Yag po" = good/pleasant

5. གནམ་གཤིས་ལུང་བསྟན་བཤད་རོགས།

   Nam shis lung ten shed rogs

   Please tell me the weather forecast

   Usage

   Politely asking for the weather forecast

   Grammar Note

   "Rogs" is a polite request particle. Tibetan uses SOV word order

6. ཉི་མ་སྲུང་རྒྱུའི་སྨན་བཀོལ་དགོས་རེད་དམ།

   Nyi ma sung gyui men kol dgo re dam?

   Do I need sunscreen?

   Usage

   Ask about sunscreen at high altitude

   Grammar Note

   Tibet's high altitude means intense UV. Sunscreen is especially important

7. གདུགས་ཅིག་ཁྱེར་དགོས་རེད་དམ།

   Dug chig khyer dgo re dam?

   Should I bring an umbrella?

   Usage

   Before going out in uncertain weather

   Grammar Note

   "Dgo re" = "it is necessary" — an assertive obligation expression

8. སྐམ་དུས་ནམ་ཡིན།

   Kam du nam yin

   When is the dry season?

   Usage

   Travel planning question for Tibet

   Grammar Note

   Tibet's dry season: October–May. "Kam" = dry, "du" = season

9. ཆར་དུས་ནམ་ཡིན།

   Char du nam yin

   When is the rainy season?

   Usage

   Ask about the monsoon season

   Grammar Note

   Tibet's monsoon: June–September. "Char" = rain

10. ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲག་པོ་འདུག

    Nyi mai ö shin tu drag po dug

    The sun is really strong

    Usage

    About the intense sun at high altitude in Tibet

    Grammar Note

    "Nyi ma" = sun, "ö" = light. The Tibetan Plateau has some of the world's strongest UV

11. ཆར་པ།

    Char pa

    Rain

    Usage

    Point at it when asking or confirming the weather

12. ཁ་བ།

    Kha wa

    Snow

    Usage

    Point at it when asking or confirming the weather

13. རླུང་།

    Lung

    Wind

    Usage

    Point at it when asking or confirming the weather

14. སྤྲིན་པ།

    Trin pa

    Cloudy / Cloud

    Usage

    Point at it when asking or confirming the weather

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