ང་གིས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ལྟ་དོན་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ཁ་ཡིག་འཐབ་སྒྲིག་ལུ་མཐོང་བཞིན་ཡོདཔ།
Nga-gi khye-kyi ta-doen gyu-tshen kha-yig thab-drig lu thong-zhin yoep.
I saw your profile on a dating app.
Usage
Opening line when first messaging someone on a dating app
Grammar Note
Dzongkha has a grammar similar to Tibetan with SOV word order and verbs at the end
ཁྱེད་ལུ་ང་དང་མཐུན་སྦྱོར་བྱ་ནི་དགོ་སྨོ།
Khye-lu nga-dang thuen-jor ja-ni go-mo?
Would you like to match / connect?
Usage
Asking if someone wants to connect
Grammar Note
"དགོ་སྨོ" is a question-final particle expressing desire
ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་འདི་འཐབ་སྒྲིག་ལས་ཅི་བཙལ་ནི་ཨིན་ན།
Khye-kyi di thab-drig-le chi tsel-ni in-na?
What are you looking for on this app?
Usage
Asking what the other person is looking for on the app
Grammar Note
"ཨིན་ན" is a question-forming final particle
ང་འདི་ལུ་གསརཔ་ཨིན། འདི་ཇི་ལྟར་ལེགས་སྦེ་སྤྱོད་ཚུགས་ཨིན་ན།
Nga di-lu sarp in. Di ji-tar leg-be choe-tshug in-na?
I'm new here — how does it work?
Usage
Asking how the app works as a newcomer
Grammar Note
"ཇི་ལྟར་" is an interrogative adverb asking about manner
མཇལ་མ་ཐུག་པའི་ཧ་ལམ་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་གཏམ་སྦྱོར་བྱས་ཆོག་གི་ཨིན་ན།
Jel-ma-thug-pai ha-lam nyen-thrin tam-jor je-chog-gi in-na?
Can we video chat before meeting?
Usage
Suggesting a video call before meeting for safety
Grammar Note
"ཆོག་གི་ཨིན་ན" is an expression asking for permission or possibility
ང་ཚོའི་ཐོག་མའི་མཇལ་འཕྲད་ལུ་ཁྱེད་ག་ཏེ་ལུ་མཇལ་དགོ་ཨིན་ན།
Nga-tshoi thog-mai jel-thre-lu khye ga-te-lu jel-go in-na?
Where would you like to meet for our first date?
Usage
Asking where to meet for the first date
Grammar Note
"ག་ཏེ་ལུ" is an interrogative asking about location
གཏམ་བཤད་སྐྱིད་པོ་ཐོབ་བྱུང་། མཇལ་འདོད་སྨོ།
Tam-she kyi-po thob-jung. Jel-doe-mo?
I enjoyed chatting — want to meet up?
Usage
Suggesting to meet up after enjoyable chatting
Grammar Note
"ཐོབ་བྱུང་" is a past compound form expressing a completed experience
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ལྟ་དོན་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ཧ་ལམ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཡོད།
Khye-kyi ta-doen gyu-tshen ha-lam leg-shom yoe.
You have a great profile!
Usage
Complimenting someone's profile
Grammar Note
"ལེགས་ཤོམ" is an adjective meaning "good / excellent"
ང་འདི་ལུ་བདུན་ཕྲག་གཅིག་ལས་ཡོད། མཇལ་དགོ་ཨིན་ན།
Nga di-lu duen-thrag chig-le yoe. Jel-go in-na?
I'm visiting for a week — would you like to meet?
Usage
Suggesting to meet during a short visit
Grammar Note
"ལས་ཡོད" is an existential expression indicating current state
ང་ཚོ་ལེགས་ཤོས་ཀྱི་མཐུན་གྲོགས་ཨིན་བསམ་གྱི་ཡོད།
Nga-tsho leg-shoe-kyi thuen-drog in sam-gyi yoe.
I think we're a good match!
Usage
Expressing that you feel you are well-matched
Grammar Note
"བསམ་གྱི་ཡོད" is a cognitive verb expression meaning "I think / believe"
More Dzongkha phrases
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