Casino & Gambling

1. ཀ་སི་ནོ་ག་ནེ་འདུག།

   Ka-si-no ga-ne du

   Where is the casino?

   Usage

   Basic phrase to find the location of a casino

   Grammar Note

   Foreign words in Dzongkha are phonetically transcribed in Tibetan script

2. ལྡེ་མིག་འདི་ལུ་གཏི་མུའི་གཏོར་མ་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།

   De-mig di lu ti-mu-i tor-ma ga-tse yin

   What is the minimum bet at this table?

   Usage

   Used to check the minimum bet at a table game

   Grammar Note

   "Lu" as a locative particle means "at/on/in"

3. ཅིཔ་ག་ལུར་ཉོ་ཆོག།

   Chip ga-lur nyo chog

   How do I buy chips?

   Usage

   Used to ask how and where to buy casino chips

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-lur" asks "how/where" about method or location

4. བཤལ་མཁར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་འཁོར་ལོ་ལྡེ་མིག་རྩེད་མོ་རྩེད་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Shel-khar gyal-khab kyi khor-lo de-mig tse-mo tse na do-yi

   I'd like to play blackjack / roulette / baccarat

   Usage

   Used to specify which table game you want to play

   Grammar Note

   Casino game names are often used as loanwords in Dzongkha

5. བཟུང་།གཞུགས།ཐེབས་རྒྱས།

   Zung / Zhug / Theb-gye

   Hit / Stand / Double down (blackjack terms)

   Usage

   Basic blackjack terms used during gameplay for quick instructions

   Grammar Note

   Casino technical terms combine loanwords and direct translations using simple verbs

6. ཅིཔ་དངུལ་རྐྱང་ལུ་བརྗེ་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Chip ngul-kyang lu je na do-yi

   I'd like to cash out my chips

   Usage

   Used when wanting to exchange chips for cash

   Grammar Note

   "Na do-yi" expresses "I'd like to". "Chip" is a transliteration of English "chip"; "ngul-kyang" is cash (same word as in the Money & Exchange category)

7. གོས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིག་ལམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Go kyi drig-lam yoe-pa yin-nam

   Is there a dress code?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the dress code before entering a casino

   Grammar Note

   "Kyi" is the genitive "of." "Go kyi drig-lam" = "rule of dress/dress code"

8. ཆང་ཅིག་བཀྱང་གི་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Chang chig kyong-gi yin-nam

   Can I get a complimentary drink?

   Usage

   Used to ask for complimentary drinks in a casino

   Grammar Note

   "Gi yin-nam" is a question asking for confirmation of an action

9. ལྡེ་མིག་གི་ཚད་གཞི་ག་རྣམས་ཨིན།

   De-mig gi tse-zhi ga-nam yin

   What are the table limits?

   Usage

   Used to check the betting limits at a table game

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-nam yin" asks "what are they" in plural form

10. ཚད་མཐོ་གཞི་ཁང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Tse-tho zhi-khang yoe-pa yin-nam

    Is there a VIP room?

    Usage

    Used to ask if a VIP or private gaming room is available

    Grammar Note

    "Tse-tho" literally means "high standard," used to express VIP or premium

11. ད་མཚན་མོའི་ཆེད་ཕར་ལྷུང་།

    Da tshen-moi che par-lhung

    I think I've had enough for tonight

    Usage

    Used when deciding to stop playing for the night

    Grammar Note

    "Che" is a purpose/topic particle "for/about"

12. ང་གསར་ཤར་ཨིན།སྒྲིག་ལམ་བཤད་འགྱུར་གནང་ཆོག་གམ།

    Nga sar-shar yin; drig-lam she-gyur nang chog-gam

    I'm a beginner — can you explain the rules?

    Usage

    Used by beginners to ask for an explanation of the game rules

    Grammar Note

    "Nang chog-gam" is a polite request "please...is that okay?"

13. ཀ་སི་ནོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ལུ་སྒོ་བརྒྱབ་ནི་ཨིན།

    Ka-si-no chu-tshoe ga-dem-chig lu go gyab-ni in

    What time does the casino close?

    Usage

    Used to ask the closing time of the casino

    Grammar Note

    "Go gyab-ni in" means "will close"; closing is literally "to strike the door" (opening is "go che")

14. གསང་སྤྱོད་ས་ག་ནེ་འདུག།

    Sang-cho sa ga-ne du

    Where are the restrooms?

    Usage

    Basic phrase to find the restrooms in a casino

    Grammar Note

    "Sang-cho" literally means "secret use place," a euphemism for restroom

15. རྩེད་མོ་ག་རྣམས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

    Tse-mo ga-nam yoe-pa yin

    What games do you have available?

    Usage

    Used to ask what games are available at the casino

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-nam" is the plural interrogative. "Ga-chi" is its singular counterpart

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