Accommodation

1. ངེས་བཞག་ཡོད། ངའི་མིང་སི་མིཐི་ཨིན།

   Nge zhag yoe. Ngai ming Smith in.

   I have a reservation. My name is Smith.

   Usage

   Used at the hotel front desk when checking in

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha is SOV and related to Tibetan. "ཨིན" is a copular "is/am/are"

2. ཧེ་མ་ལས་ཁང་མིག་བལྟ་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདམ།

   He-ma le khang mig ta chog gi yoem?

   Can I see the room first?

   Usage

   Used when you want to inspect the room before deciding

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha yes/no questions end with "ཡོདམ།"

3. ཞོགས་ཀྱི་ཁལ་ཟ་གོང་ནང་ཚུད་ཡོདམ།

   Zhog kyi khal za gong nang tshue yoem?

   Is breakfast included?

   Usage

   Used to ask if breakfast is included

   Grammar Note

   "གོང་ནང་ཚུད" means "included in the price"

4. ལས་ཚར་ཕྱི་ལམ་ཐལ་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདམ།

   Le tshar chi lam thal chog gi yoem?

   Can I have a late check-out?

   Usage

   Used to request a later check-out time

   Grammar Note

   "ཆོག་གི་ཡོདམ།" is a permission question meaning "is it allowed to?"

5. གློག་འཁྱིལ་ཡོདམ།

   Log khyil yoem?

   Is there an elevator?

   Usage

   Used to ask if there is an elevator

   Grammar Note

   "ཡོདམ།" is the standard existential yes/no question form

6. མགོ་འབོལ་གཅིག་ཁ་སྣོན་ལེན་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདམ།

   Go bol chig kha noen len chog gi yoem?

   Could I get an extra pillow?

   Usage

   Used to request an additional pillow

   Grammar Note

   "ལེན་ཆོག" means "allowed to take/receive"

7. རླུང་འཁོར་དྲོད་གཤེར་མི་འདོན།

   Lung khor droe sher mi doen.

   The air conditioning is not working.

   Usage

   Used to report a broken air conditioner

   Grammar Note

   "མི་" is a shared Dzongkha/Tibetan negation prefix

8. ཕྱིར་འབུད་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚོད་ཨིན།

   Chir-bue chu-tshoe ga-tshoe in

   What time is check-out?

   Usage

   Used to ask what time check-out is

   Grammar Note

   "ག་ཚོད" is a question word meaning "how much/how many/what time"

9. མོ་ཊར་འཇོག་ས་ཡོདམ།

   Mo tar jog sa yoem?

   Is there parking available?

   Usage

   Used to ask about parking availability

   Grammar Note

   "འཇོག་ས" means "a place to put/park"; "ཡོདམ།" queries its existence

10. འདིར་ང་གི་ཅ་ཆས་བཞག་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདམ།

    Dir nga gi cha che zhag chog gi yoem?

    Can I store my luggage here?

    Usage

    Used to leave luggage at the hotel

    Grammar Note

    "བཞག་ཆོག" means "allowed to place/store"

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