Contacts & SNS

1. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ཁ་པར་ཨིན་ལམ་གནང་ཡི།

   Khye rang gi kha par in lam nang yi

   Could you give me your phone number?

   Usage

   Politely asking for someone's phone number

   Grammar Note

   "གནང" is the honorific form of "to give" in Dzongkha, equivalent to a polite request form.

2. ཁྱེད་རང་གི་གློག་ཡིག་ཁ་བྱང་གནང་ཡི།

   Khye rang gi lok yig kha jang nang yi

   Please give me your email address

   Usage

   Asking for an email address

   Grammar Note

   "གློག་ཡིག" means "electric letter", a calque for email. This word-building method is characteristic of Tibetan-derived Dzongkha.

3. ཝི་ཆེཊི་ཨམ་ཝཱཊ་ས་ཨཕ་ལག་ཞུ་གིན་ཡོད་པས།

   WeChat am WhatsApp lag zhu gin yo pe?

   Do you use WeChat or WhatsApp?

   Usage

   Checking which messaging apps someone uses

   Grammar Note

   Both WeChat and WhatsApp are widely used in Bhutan. WeChat is popular due to proximity to China.

4. ངལ་བ་མ་ཤོར་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་བཟུང་ནི།

   Nga wa ma shor war drel lam zung ni

   Let's stay in touch

   Usage

   Expressing intention to maintain contact when parting

   Grammar Note

   "འབྲེལ་ལམ" means "path of connection", the Dzongkha expression for contact or relationship.

5. ལོ་བདེར་ཡང་འཕྲད་ཐུབ་ཡི་ག།

   Lo der yang drel thub yi ga?

   Can we meet again sometime?

   Usage

   Asking about the possibility of meeting again

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan limits annual visitors through a high-value low-impact policy, making the wish to return especially meaningful.

6. ངའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་ཁ་བྱང་འདི་ཁྱེད་རང་ལུ་གནང་ཡི།

   Nge drel lam kha jang di khye rang lu nang yi

   I will give you my contact information

   Usage

   Offering your own contact information

   Grammar Note

   In Dzongkha, "ང" (I) takes the genitive suffix "འི" to form "ངའི" (my).

7. ཟིན་གཏར་ཤུལ་ལས་ར་ལམ་ཡོད་པས།

   Zin tar shul le ra lam yo pe?

   Do you have social media?

   Usage

   Asking if someone has social media accounts

   Grammar Note

   Internet adoption in Bhutan has grown rapidly. Social media use is especially active among the youth.

8. ང་ལུ་ཁ་པར་གྱིས་ཆོག་གམ།

   Nga lu kha par gyi chho gam?

   Can I call you?

   Usage

   Asking permission to make a phone call

   Grammar Note

   "ཆོག" expresses permission ("is it okay?"). Adding "གམ" at the end makes it a question.

9. ང་བཅས་འབྲེལ་ལམ་ཡོད་མི་བཟུང་ནི།

   Nga tse drel lam yo mi zung ni

   Let's cherish the connection we have

   Usage

   Expressing gratitude for the meeting and hope to continue

   Grammar Note

   Buddhist culture values human connections deeply. "འབྲེལ་ལམ" carries this deeper meaning of karmic bond.

10. འབྲེལ་ལམ་ཕབ་ལེན་བཟུམ་བྱ་ར་ཡི།

    Drel lam phab len zum ja ra yi

    Let's exchange contact information

    Usage

    Proposing to exchange contact details

    Grammar Note

    "ཕབ་ལེན" combines "take down" and "take up" to mean "exchange" in Dzongkha.

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