Internet & WiFi

1. ཝི་ཕི་གི་གསང་ཡིག་ག་དེ་འབད་ཐོབ།

   Wi-fi gi sang-yig ga-de bad-tob

   How can I get the Wi-Fi password?

   Usage

   Used to get a Wi-Fi password at hotels, cafes, or airports. Wi-Fi in Bhutan is mainly available in urban areas

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-de bad-tob" means "how can one get." The loanword "Wi-fi" is used as borrowed from English

2. ཨེ་ཊི་ཨེམ་འདི་ལུ་དངུལ་བཏོན་ཤོག་བྱང་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདཔ།

   E ti em di-lu ngul-ton shog-jang lag-len thab chog gi yoe-pa

   Can I use a debit card at this ATM?

   Usage

   Used to check if a foreign debit card works at a Bhutanese ATM. Not always available at tourist sites

   Grammar Note

   "Chog gi yoepa" indicates possibility or permission. ATM is transliterated e-ti-em; "use" is lag-len thab-ni. Cash (Ngultrum) is the primary payment method in Bhutan

3. ཀར་ཌི་འདི་ལུ་གློག་རིག་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདཔ།

   Kar-di di-lu log-rig yong-drel lag-len thab chog gi yoe-pa

   Can I access the internet with this card?

   Usage

   Used to confirm if a SIM or data card provides internet access

   Grammar Note

   "གློག་རིག་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ" means "internet." Bhutan uses the international calling code +975

4. སྐད་འཕྲིན་གཅིག་གཏང་དགོ།

   Ke-trin chig tang-go

   I need to send a message

   Usage

   Used at internet cafes or accommodations to request help sending a message

   Grammar Note

   "Go" expresses necessity. "Tang" means "to send" and applies to both email and text messages

5. ཁ་པར་གྱི་གློག་ནུས་གསོ་ཆས་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཡོད།

   Kha-par gyi log-nue-so-che chig yoe-pa yoe

   Do you have a phone charger?

   Usage

   Used to borrow a charger at hotels, cafes, or airports. Bhutan mainly uses 3-pin power outlets

   Grammar Note

   Repeating "yoe" creates the "do you have?" question. "Log-nue-so-che" means "charger"

6. གློག་རིག་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཀེཕི་ག་ཏེ་ཡོད།

   Log-rig yong-drel ke-phi ga-te yoe

   Where is the internet cafe?

   Usage

   Used to find an internet cafe when without a smartphone or when connectivity is poor

   Grammar Note

   "Ke-phi" is borrowed from English "cafe." The location question word is "ga-te" (where)

7. གློག་རིག་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ལྡི་ལི་འདི་ཉམས་ཤེས།

   Log-rig yong-drel di-li di nyer-she

   The internet connection is slow

   Usage

   Used to report slow internet connection to staff. Rural areas of Bhutan often have slow connectivity

   Grammar Note

   "Nyer-she" means "slow/weak." Predicative adjectives come at the end of the sentence in Dzongkha

8. སིམ་ཀར་ཌི་ག་ཏེ་ལས་ཐོབ་ཚུགས།

   Sim kar-di ga-te lay tob-tshug

   Where can I buy a SIM card?

   Usage

   Bhutan Telecom SIM cards are the main option. Available at the airport and downtown shops

   Grammar Note

   "Tob-tshug" is "tob" (get) + "tshug" (can), i.e. "can obtain"; "ga-te le" means "where / from where". SIM cards in Bhutan can be purchased from Bhutan Telecom

9. འཕྲུལ་ཆས་ཀྱི་མདུན་ལམ་ག་ཏེ་ཡོད།

   Trul-cha kyi dun-lam ga-te yoe

   Where is an electronics repair shop?

   Usage

   Used to find a repair shop for broken smartphones or laptops

   Grammar Note

   "Dun-lam-ra" refers to a shop. Electronics repair is available in cities like Thimphu

10. མིག་ཆས་ཀྱི་གཅིག་གཉིས་ཐོབ་ཆོག་གི་ཡོདཔ།

    Mig-cha kyi chig-nyi tob-chog gi yoe-pa

    Can I get photos printed here?

    Usage

    Used to request photo printing services. Available at digital shops in Thimphu

    Grammar Note

    "Tob-chog gi yoepa" forms a polite request. Photo printing is a popular service for tourists

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