Accessibility

1. ས་གནས་འདི་ནང་རྐང་ཁྲི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཅནམ་གིས་འཛུལ་ཚུགསཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Sa-ne di nang kang-thri khor-lo chenm gi dzul tshup in-na

   Is this place wheelchair accessible?

   Usage

   Asking whether a venue is wheelchair accessible

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha has no word for "accessible", so this asks whether a wheelchair can enter. A wheelchair is kang-thri khor-lo chenm "chair with wheels"

2. འདི་ནང་འདྲེན་སྐས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Di nang dren-ke yoe-pa in-nam

   Do you have an elevator / lift?

   Usage

   Checking whether a building has an elevator

   Grammar Note

   Both lift and elevator are rendered as dren-ke "hoisting stair"; the escalator is a separate word, khor-ke

3. ང་ལུ་དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཞུགས་ཅན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་གྲ་སྒྲིག་ཡོད་པའི་ཁང་མིག་ཅིག་དགོ།

   Nga lu wang-po kyoen-zhug chen gi doen lu dra-drig yoe pai khang-mig chig go

   I need a room with accessibility features.

   Usage

   Requesting an accessible room at a hotel front desk

   Grammar Note

   Disability is wang-po kyoen-zhug; "…chen gi doen lu dra-drig yoe pai" means "arranged for people with …". Go is the necessity auxiliary

4. སྒ་ཉལ་གསེག་ལམ་ཡང་ན་ཐེམ་སྐས་མེད་པའི་འཛུལ་སྒོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Ga-nyel seg-lam yang-na them-ke me pai dzul-go yoe-pa in-nam

   Is there a ramp or step-free entrance?

   Usage

   Asking about a ramp or level entrance

   Grammar Note

   A ramp is ga-nyel seg-lam, "the sloped path joining two levels". Yang-na means "or"

5. དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཞུགས་ཅན་གྱི་གསང་སྤྱོད་ག་ཏེ་ཡོད།

   Wang-po kyoen-zhug chen gi sang-choe ga te yoe

   Where is the accessible restroom?

   Usage

   Asking for the location of an accessible restroom

   Grammar Note

   ག་ཏེ is the Dzongkha interrogative word for "where"

6. ངའི་མིག་ཏོ་གིས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་མི་མཐོང་། རོགས་རམ་འབད་གནང་།

   Ngi mig-to gi leg-shom be mi thong. Rog-ram be nang

   I am visually impaired — can you help me?

   Usage

   A visually impaired traveler asking for assistance

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha has no noun for "visual impairment"; blind is expressed predicatively as mig gi ma thongm "not seeing with the eyes". Nang is the honorific verb for polite requests

7. ཡི་གུ་སྦོམ་སྦེ་བྲིས་ཡོད་པའི་ཟས་ཐོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Yi-gu bom be dri yoe pai ze-tho yoe-pa in-nam

   Do you have large-print menus?

   Usage

   Requesting a large-print menu for someone with low vision

   Grammar Note

   A menu is ze-tho, "the list of dish names and prices". Bom is "big"; be makes it adverbial, "in large form"

8. ཉན་ནིའི་ལམ་སྟོན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Nyen nii lam-toen yoe-pa in-nam

   Are there audio guides available?

   Usage

   Asking about audio guide availability at a tourist site or museum

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha has no term for "audio guide", so this says "a guide for listening to". Guide is lam-toen and listen is nyen ni

9. ང་གིས་གོ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་དོ། གསལ་ཏོག་ཏོ་སྦེ་བཤད་གནང་།

   Nga gi go-thoe kyi trul-che lag-len thab do. Sel-tog-to be she nang

   I use a hearing aid — please speak clearly.

   Usage

   A hearing aid user requesting clear speech from others

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha has no word for "hearing aid", so this says "a device for hearing" (go-thoe kyi trul-che). Clear is sel-tog-to

10. ངའི་ལམ་སྟོན་ཁྱི་ནང་ན་འབག་ཆོག་གམ།

    Ngi lam-toen khyi nang na bag chog-gam

    Can I bring my service/guide dog inside?

    Usage

    Asking permission to bring a service or guide dog inside

    Grammar Note

    ཆོག་གམ is a permission-seeking question meaning "is it permitted to...?"

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