Diving & Water Sports

1. ཆུ་འོག་ལུ་གོད་གྲུབ་བྱེད་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Chu-og lu go-drub che na do-yi

   I'd like to go scuba diving

   Usage

   Basic phrase for booking a scuba diving activity

   Grammar Note

   "Do-yi" expresses desire "I want to/I'd like to"

2. ལག་ཁྱེར་ཤེས་ཡོན་དགོ་པ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Lag-khyer she-yon go-pa yin-nam

   Is a diving certification required?

   Usage

   Used to ask if a diving certification is required

   Grammar Note

   "Go-pa yin-nam" is a necessity question "is it required/necessary?" ("yin-nam" is the Dzongkha question copula)

3. ཆུ་ལྦུ་གོས་ག་ནེ་ལས་གདམ་ཆོག།

   Chu-bu go ga-ne le gam chog

   Where can I rent a wetsuit?

   Usage

   Used to find out where to rent a wetsuit

   Grammar Note

   "Chu-lbu" relates to "water bubbles," used in diving terminology

4. ཆུ་གོད་ས་འདིའི་གཏིང་ཚད་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།

   Chu-go sa di-i ting-tse ga-tse yin

   How deep is this dive site?

   Usage

   Used to check the depth of a dive site

   Grammar Note

   "Ting" means "depth/bottom." "Tse" measures the amount/degree

5. ན་ལུ་གདོང་ཐུང་ངམ་ཆུ་སྲོག་ཆགས་གདུག་ཅན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Na lu dong-thung nam chu-sog-chag dug-chen yoe-pa yin-nam

   Are there sharks or dangerous marine animals here?

   Usage

   Used before diving to check for sharks or dangerous marine life

   Grammar Note

   "Dug-chen" means "having venom/dangerous," expressing a dangerous characteristic

6. ད་རིས་ཆུ་གོད་ལུ་གནས་སྟངས་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Da-ri chu-go lu ne-tang leg-shom yoe-pa yin-nam

   Are conditions good for diving today?

   Usage

   Used to check if today's conditions are suitable for diving

   Grammar Note

   "Yoe-pa yin-nam" is a question about existence or state

7. སྣོར་གེལ་གྱིས་ཆུ་གོད་རྒྱབ་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Nor-gel gyi chu-go gyab na do-yi

   I'd like to try snorkeling

   Usage

   Used to express interest in trying snorkeling

   Grammar Note

   Foreign word "snorkel" is transliterated according to Dzongkha phonology

8. གྲུ་འཁོར་གྱིས་ཆུ་གོད་རེ་ཞིབ་བཀོད་ཆོག་གམ།

   Dru-khor gyi chu-go re-zhib ko chog-gam

   Can I book a boat dive?

   Usage

   Used to book a boat diving tour

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" is a permission question "is it okay to/may I?"

9. ཆུ་རྡོ་རཝ་ག་ནེ་འདུག།

   Chu-do-ra ga-ne du

   Where is the coral reef?

   Usage

   Used to ask where the coral reef is located

   Grammar Note

   "Du" is an existential verb for information not directly witnessed by the speaker

10. ཨང་ཆེ་ཤར་ཀི་པ་ཌི་ལག་ཁྱེར་ཡོད།

    Ang-che-shar ki pa-di lag-khyer yoe

    I'm a certified diver — PADI Open Water

    Usage

    Used to inform the dive center of your certification level

    Grammar Note

    "Yoe" is the existential verb for information directly known by the speaker

11. སེར་ལྤགས་ལྡིང་ཐབས་རྒྱབ་དགས་ཨིན།

    Ser-lpag ding-thab gyab-da yin

    I'd like a surfing lesson

    Usage

    Used to sign up for a surfing lesson

    Grammar Note

    "Gyab-da yin" expresses a strong desire or need "I want/need to do"

12. ཆུ་གྱོས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ག་གི་ཨིན།

    Chu-gyo kyi ne-tang ga-gi yin

    What are the current / tide conditions?

    Usage

    Used before diving or swimming to check current and tide conditions

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-gi yin" asks "what is it like/what kind?"

13. ཆུ་འོག་ལུ་གདེང་འཇོག་རྟགས་ག་གི་ཨིན།

    Chu-og lu deng-jog tag ga-gi yin

    What is the emergency signal underwater?

    Usage

    Used during a diving safety briefing to check emergency signals

    Grammar Note

    Safety checks before diving are essential. Technical terms are often borrowed from English

14. སེར་ལྤགས་ཤི་ང་ཅིག་གདམ་ཞུ་དགས་ཨིན།

    Ser-lpag shi-nga chig gam-zhu-da yin

    I'd like to rent a surfboard

    Usage

    Used to rent a surfboard

    Grammar Note

    "Da yin" is another form expressing desire "I want/would like to"

15. གསར་ཤར་ལུ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ས་ག་ནེ་ཨིན།

    Sar-shar lu leg-shom sa ga-ne yin

    What's the best spot for beginners?

    Usage

    Used to ask for the best beginner spot for diving or surfing

    Grammar Note

    "Lu" as a beneficiary particle means "for/suited to"

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