Dating Apps

10 phrases · Dzongkha with romanization, English and audio

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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"

  9. 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

  10. 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"

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