Banking & ATM

1. ཨེ་ཊི་ཨེམ་ཉེ་ཤོས་ག་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   E ti em nyeshoe gate yoedpa in na?

   Where is the nearest ATM?

   Usage

   Used to find the nearest ATM when you need cash

   Grammar Note

   "gate yödpa in na?" means "where is it?" in Dzongkha. Spoken Bhutanese says the English letters "ATM"; in Dzongkha script they are transliterated ཨེ་ཊི་ཨེམ. The formal word དངུལ་འཕྲུལ is rarely heard in speech

2. ང་དངུལ་ཕྱིར་འདྲེན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Nga ngü phyir dren doe yi.

   I'd like to withdraw money.

   Usage

   Used at an ATM or bank to withdraw cash

   Grammar Note

   "dö yi" expresses desire or intention in Dzongkha

3. འདི་ཁར་དྲག་ལུགས་བརྗེ་ཆོགཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Di khar drak lug rje chogpa in na?

   Can I exchange currency here?

   Usage

   Used to ask about currency exchange

   Grammar Note

   "chogpa in na?" is a permission question in Dzongkha

4. ངའི་ཀར་ཌི་ལཱ་མི་འབདཝ་ཨིན།

   Ngai kardi le mi dewa in.

   My card is not working.

   Usage

   Used when your card is not functioning

   Grammar Note

   "mi dewa" is the negative verb form meaning "not doing/working"

5. བརྗེ་རིན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ཨིན་ན།

   Rje rin gadem cig in na?

   What is the exchange rate?

   Usage

   Used to check the exchange rate

   Grammar Note

   "gadem cig?" asks for quantity or amount in Dzongkha

6. ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ཞབས་ཏོག་དངུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Le rim kyi zhab tog ngul yoedpa in na?

   Is there a transaction fee?

   Usage

   Used to ask if a transaction fee applies

   Grammar Note

   "yödpa in na?" is an existential question in Dzongkha

7. ང་དངུལ་བཏང་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Nga ngü tang na doe yi.

   I'd like to transfer money.

   Usage

   Used to request a money transfer

   Grammar Note

   "tang" means "to send" in Dzongkha

8. ང་ལུ་འབྱོར་རྟགས་འཐོབ་ཆོགཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Nga lu jyor-tag thob chogpa in na?

   Can I get a receipt?

   Usage

   Used to request a receipt

   Grammar Note

   "thob chogpa?" asks "can I receive?" in Dzongkha

9. ང་གི་ཀར་ཌི་རྩུབ་ཐལ་བའི་སྐོར་སྙན་ཞུ་དགོ།

   Ngai kardi tsub thal wai kor nyen zhu go.

   I need to report a lost card.

   Usage

   Used to report a lost card

   Grammar Note

   "go" expresses obligation in Dzongkha

10. ཁྱོད་རྒྱུ་ཁྱབ་ཁ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དུས་ཚོད་ག་དེམ་ཨིན་ན།

    Khyoe gyu kab kha tral kyi duetsoe gadem in na?

    What are your opening hours?

    Usage

    Used to ask about business hours

    Grammar Note

    "dütsö" means "time" and "gadem" asks for the amount or time

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