Fashion & Clothing

1. འདི་ང་གི་ཚད་ལུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Di nga gi tse lu yoe-pa yin-nam

   Do you have this in my size?

   Usage

   Basic phrase to ask if an item is available in your size

   Grammar Note

   "Lu" as a beneficiary particle. "Nga gi tse lu" means "for my size"

2. འདི་གྱོན་ཆོག་ག།

   Di gyon chog-ga

   Can I try this on?

   Usage

   Basic phrase to request trying on a piece of clothing

   Grammar Note

   "Gyon chog-ga" is a permission question "is it okay to...?"

3. གོས་བཅོས་ས་ག་ནེ་འདུག།

   Go-co sa ga-ne du

   Where is the fitting room?

   Usage

   Used to find the fitting room in a clothing store

   Grammar Note

   "Du" is an existential verb for unwitnessed information

4. འདི་ཧ་ཅང་གཏམ་ཤར། བཤར་ཤར། རིང་། ཐུང་།

   Di ha-cang tam-shar / shar-shar / ring / thung

   This is too tight / loose / long / short

   Usage

   Used after trying on clothes to describe the fit

   Grammar Note

   "Ha-cang" is an intensifying adverb "too/very/extremely"

5. གཞན་ཁ་དོག་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Zhen kha-dog chig yoe-pa yin-nam

   Do you have this in a different color?

   Usage

   Used to ask if the same item comes in another color

   Grammar Note

   "Chig yoe-pa yin-nam" asks "is there one/any?"

6. འདི་ག་རྫས་ཀྱིས་བཟོས་ཡོད།

   Di ga-dze gyi zo yoe

   What material / fabric is this made of?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the fabric or material of a garment

   Grammar Note

   "Gyi" is an instrumental particle "with/by means of"

7. འདི་འཁྱུ་བཤལ་འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཀྱིས་འཁྲུ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Di khyu-shel-thrul-che gyi khru chog-gam

   Is this machine washable?

   Usage

   Used to check if clothing can be machine washed

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" is a permission question "is it okay to...?"

8. ཆེ་ཤོས་ཀྱི་ཚད་ལུ་གཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Che-sho kyi tse lu chig yoe-pa yin-nam

   Do you have a larger size?

   Usage

   Used when looking for a larger size of the same item

   Grammar Note

   "-sho" forms superlatives. "Che-sho" means "the biggest/larger"

9. འདིའི་གོང་ག་ཚམ་ཨིན།

   Di-i gong ga-tsham in

   How much is this?

   Usage

   Basic phrase for asking the price of an item

   Grammar Note

   "Di-i" is the genitive "of this," where "gi" contracts to "i" after a vowel

10. གོང་ཕབ་ཡང་ན་བཙོང་ར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Gong phab yang-na tsong-ra yoe-pa yin-nam

    Is there a sale or discount?

    Usage

    Used to ask if there is a sale or discount available

    Grammar Note

    "Yang-na" is a disjunctive conjunction "or/alternatively"

11. འདི་ཉོ་གི་ཡིན།

    Di nyo-gi yin

    I'll take it

    Usage

    Used when deciding to purchase an item

    Grammar Note

    "Gi yin" is an intentional auxiliary "I will/intend to"

12. ང་ལྟ་ལྟོས་ཙམ་བྱེད་གི་ཡིན། ཀདྲིན་ཆེ།

    Nga ta-to tsam che-gi yin; ka-drin-che

    I'm just looking, thank you

    Usage

    Polite phrase to tell shop staff you are just browsing

    Grammar Note

    "Tsam" is a limiting particle "only/just"

13. ལོག་འབུལ་ཡང་ན་བརྗེ་འཐབ་གི་སྒྲིག་གཞི་ག་གི་ཨིན།

    Log-bul yang-na je-thab gi drig-zhi ga-gi yin

    What is your return / exchange policy?

    Usage

    Used to check the return and exchange policy before or after purchase

    Grammar Note

    "Drig-zhi" means "rule/policy." "Ga-gi yin" asks "what is it/what kind?"

14. ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཚད་ལྡན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Nub-chiog kyi tse-den yoe-pa yin-nam

    Do you carry Western / international sizes?

    Usage

    Used to ask if Western or international clothing sizes are available

    Grammar Note

    "Kyi" is the genitive "of." "Nub-chiog kyi" means "of the West/Western"

15. འདི་ཡི་ལྟ་ཚུལ་ད་ལྟ་རིགས་སྒྲིག་ལྡན་ཡི་ནམ།

    Di yi ta-tshul da-to rig-drig den yi-nam

    Is this style popular right now?

    Usage

    Used to ask if a style is currently trendy or popular

    Grammar Note

    "Da-to" is a temporal adverb meaning "now/currently"

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