Airport & Customs

1. ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ལམ་ཡིག་སྟོན་གནང་།

   Khyoe kyi lam-yig ton nang

   Please show your passport

   Usage

   Standard phrase used by immigration officers

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha uses Tibetan script and follows SOV order

2. ཁྱོད་འབྱོན་ཡུལ་ཀྱི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་ག་ཅི་ཨིན་ན།

   Khyoe jon yul kyi mig-yul ga-chi in na?

   What is the purpose of your visit?

   Usage

   Standard immigration question

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-chi" = what. "In na" is a question ending

3. ཁྱོད་མི་རིང་བར་གནས་སྡོད་བྱ་འཆར་ག་ཅི་ཨིན་ན།

   Khyoe mi-ring-bar ne-doe ja-char ga-chi in na?

   How many nights are you planning to stay?

   Usage

   Commonly asked at immigration

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha places verbs at the end of sentences

4. ཁྱོད་ལུ་གསལ་བཤད་བྱ་དགོ་མི་གཅིག་ཡོད་ག།

   Khyoe lu sel-she ja-go mi chig yoe ga?

   Do you have anything to declare?

   Usage

   Asked at customs

   Grammar Note

   "-ga" is a question suffix

5. ངའི་ཅ་ཆས་མ་ཕེབས།

   Ngai cha-che ma-pheb

   My luggage hasn't arrived

   Usage

   Tell baggage claim staff

   Grammar Note

   "Ma-" is a negation prefix

6. འདི་ལགཔ་གི་ཅ་ཆས་ཨིན།

   Di lap gi cha-che in

   This is carry-on luggage

   Usage

   Tell airline staff at check-in or boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Lap" = hand; with the genitive "gi", "lap gi cha-che" = hand luggage

7. ང་ཕར་ཚུར་འགྲུལ་བཞུགས་ཡོད།

   Nga phar-tsur drul-zhug yod

   I'm in transit

   Usage

   Used at transit counters or immigration

   Grammar Note

   "Phar-tsur" = back and forth / via

8. གེཊ་ག་ལུ་ཡོད།

   Gate ga-lu yod?

   Where is the gate?

   Usage

   Ask when looking for your boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-lu" = where

9. གནམ་གྲུ་ལུ་འཛུལ་ཚར་གོང་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཅི།

   Nam-dru lu dzul-tshar gong chu-tshod ga-chi?

   When does boarding begin?

   Usage

   Ask while waiting at the boarding gate

   Grammar Note

   "Nam-dru" = airplane (sky vehicle)

10. ཁྲལ་མེད་ཀྱི་ཚོང་ར་ག་ལུ་ཡོད།

    Khral-med kyi tsong-ra ga-lu yod?

    Where is the duty-free shop?

    Usage

    Ask after clearing security

    Grammar Note

    "Khral" = tax, "med" = without/none

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