Car Rental & Driving

1. ཉིན་[གྲངས]་ལུ་མོ་ཊར་ཅིག་ཕར་གདམ་ཞུ་གི་ཡིན།

   Nyin [dra] lu mo-tar chig par gam zhu-gi yin

   I'd like to rent a car for [X] days

   Usage

   Used when requesting a car rental for a specific number of days

   Grammar Note

   "Zhu-gi yin" is a polite expression of intent "I intend to"

2. གདམ་གྱི་གོང་ནང་ག་རྣམས་ཚུདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Gam gi gong nang ga-nam tshu-pa yin-nam

   What's included in the rental price?

   Usage

   Used to find out what is included in the rental fee

   Grammar Note

   "Nang" is a locative particle meaning "inside/in"

3. ཨོ་ཊོ་མེ་ཊིག་གདམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   O-to-me-tig gam yoe-pa yin-nam

   Does it have automatic transmission?

   Usage

   Used to check availability of automatic transmission vehicles

   Grammar Note

   Foreign technical terms are transcribed into Tibetan script according to Dzongkha phonology

4. བདེ་འཇགས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་ཤེས་ག་རྣམས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

   De-jag gi thab-she ga-nam yoe-pa yin

   What are the insurance options?

   Usage

   Used to ask about available insurance options for a rental

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-nam" is a plural interrogative "what are (the things)"

5. སྐྱེལ་མར་མེ་ཤར་ལོགཔ་ཡོང་དགོ་གམ།

   Kyel-mar me-shar log-pa yong go-gam

   Should I return it with a full tank?

   Usage

   Used to check the fuel policy at the time of return

   Grammar Note

   "Go-gam" is a necessity question "is it necessary to?"

6. ལམ་གྱི་ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་ཚད་བཀོད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Lam gyi ki-lo-mi-tar tse ko yoe-pa yin-nam

   Is there a mileage limit?

   Usage

   Used to check if there is a mileage limit on the rental

   Grammar Note

   "Yoe-pa yin-nam" is an existential question "does it exist/is there...?"

7. མོ་ཊར་ལུ་སྐྱིབས་ཡོདཔ་ལས་བཤད་འོང་།

   Mo-tar lu kyib yoe-pa le she-ong

   I'd like to report a scratch / damage

   Usage

   Used to report any scratches or damage on the car before returning it

   Grammar Note

   "Ong" is an auxiliary indicating movement toward an action "coming to"

8. ཉེ་ཤོས་ཀྱི་མེ་ཤར་གཞི་ག་ནེ་འདུག།

   Nye-shoe kyi me-shar zhi ga-ne du

   Where is the nearest gas station?

   Usage

   Used to ask for the nearest gas station when refueling is needed

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-ne du" is a location question "where is it?"

9. མོ་ཊར་འདི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་ལུ་ཕར་གཏང་ཆོག་གམ།

   Mo-tar di gyal-khab zhen lu par tang chog-gam

   Can I take this car across the border?

   Usage

   Used to check if the rental car can be taken across national borders

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" asks for permission "is it allowed to...?"

10. ལམ་ལུ་གུང་གྲལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Lam lu kung-dral yoe-pa yin-nam

    Are there toll roads on this route?

    Usage

    Used to check if there are toll roads on the planned route

    Grammar Note

    "Lam lu" means "on the road/route"

11. ན་ལུ་འཇོག་སའི་སྒྲིག་གཞི་ག་ཅི་ཨིན།

    Na lu jog-sai drig-zhi ga-chi in

    What are the parking rules here?

    Usage

    Used to ask about parking regulations in an area

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-chi in" is an interrogative asking "what is it?". "Jog-sa" means "place to put (a vehicle)", i.e. parking

12. མོ་ཊར་སྒོ་ཐབས་མི་རུང་།

    Mo-tar go-thab mi-rung

    The car won't start

    Usage

    Emergency phrase for reporting that a car will not start

    Grammar Note

    "Mi-rung" is a negative expression meaning "cannot/not possible"

13. མོ་ཊར་མིང་ལས་ལོག་གཏང་ནི་ཨིན།

    Mo-tar ming le log-tang ni yin

    I'd like to return the car early

    Usage

    Used when wanting to return a rental car before the scheduled date

    Grammar Note

    "Le" as a comparative particle means "more than/earlier than"

14. ཨིལ་ཀི་ཊིག་མོ་ཊར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Il-ki-tig mo-tar yoe-pa yin-nam

    Do you have an electric / hybrid car?

    Usage

    Used to ask about electric or hybrid car availability

    Grammar Note

    "Yoe-pa yin-nam" is an existential question "is there/do you have?"

15. མེ་ཤར་འདི་ག་རིག་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Me-shar di ga-rig yin-nam

    What type of fuel does it use?

    Usage

    Used to check what type of fuel the car requires

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-rig" is an interrogative asking "what type/kind"

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