Compliments

1. རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས།

   Gyelkhap di shin tu dze

   This country is very beautiful

   Usage

   Praising the beauty of Bhutan

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha is a Tibetan dialect using the Tibetan script. It is the official language of Bhutan.

2. རྫོང་འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་གཟི་བརྗིད་ཅན།

   Dzong di shin tu zi ji chen

   This dzong (fortress) is truly magnificent

   Usage

   Admiring the grandeur of a Bhutanese dzong

   Grammar Note

   The dzong (རྫོང) is a unique Bhutanese fortress-monastery complex. It gives its name to "Dzongkha" (language of the dzong).

3. འེ་མ་དཙི་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཞིམ།

   Ema datshi shin tu zhim

   The ema datshi is very delicious

   Usage

   Complimenting Bhutan's national dish ema datshi

   Grammar Note

   Ema datshi (chili and cheese stew) is Bhutan's national dish. Uniquely, chili is treated as a vegetable, not a spice.

4. མི་གྲལ་འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཅན།

   Mi dral di shin tu ka drin chen

   The people here are very kind

   Usage

   Praising the warmth and kindness of Bhutanese people

   Grammar Note

   "བཀའ་དྲིན" is a Buddhist concept meaning "grace/kindness". Using it is a very high compliment.

5. རི་བོ་འདི་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས།

   Ri wo di shin tu dze

   These mountains are very beautiful

   Usage

   Admiring the Himalayan mountain scenery

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan sits in the Himalayas. Its highest peak, Gangkhar Puensum (7,570m), is the world's highest unclimbed mountain.

6. རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་རིག་གཞུང་ཤིན་ཏུ་གཟི་བརྗིད།

   Gyelkhap kyi rig zhung shin tu zi ji

   The culture of this country is wonderful (Gross National Happiness)

   Usage

   Praising Bhutan's Gross National Happiness philosophy and unique culture

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan is one of few nations that consciously balances traditional culture with modernization. GNH is a globally proposed development metric.

7. སྟག་ཚང་གི་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས།

   Taktsang gi tshuglakhang shin tu dze

   Tiger's Nest monastery is very beautiful

   Usage

   Admiring Bhutan's iconic Tiger's Nest monastery

   Grammar Note

   Taktsang Monastery clings to a cliff at 3,120m, the symbol of Bhutan. The hike from the base takes about 3 hours.

8. གོ་དང་ཀི་ར་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཛེས།

   Gho dang kira shin tu dze

   The traditional dress (gho and kira) is very beautiful

   Usage

   Complimenting Bhutanese traditional dress

   Grammar Note

   The gho (men) and kira (women) are Bhutan's national dress, mandatory in official buildings and schools.

9. ཁྱེད་རང་ཤིན་ཏུ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཅན།

   Khye rang shin tu ka drin chen

   You are very kind

   Usage

   Expressing gratitude for someone's kindness

   Grammar Note

   "ཁྱེད་རང" is the respectful second person. "བཀའ་དྲིན" (grace/kindness) is the highest Buddhist compliment.

10. འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན།

    Druk Yul shin tu khyad par chen

    Bhutan is very unique

    Usage

    Praising the uniqueness of Bhutan

    Grammar Note

    "འབྲུག་ཡུལ" is Bhutan's self-name meaning "Land of the Thunder Dragon," whose image appears on the national flag.

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