Laundry

1. གོས་ཁྲུས་བྱེད་ས་ག་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ལགས།

   Goe-tru je-sa ga-te yoepa la

   Where is the laundry?

   Usage

   Used to ask where to find a laundry service while traveling in Bhutan

   Grammar Note

   "Je-sa" combines the verb "je" (to do) with the locative "sa" (place), meaning "place to do"

2. གོས་འདི་ཁྲུས་ཞུ་ཐུབ་ཀི་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Goe di tru zhu-tub-ki yin nam

   Can you wash these clothes?

   Usage

   A polite phrase used when asking a hotel or laundry shop to wash your clothes

   Grammar Note

   "Zhu" is the humble/polite form used when making requests. It is essential for service interactions

3. གོས་འདི་བསྐམ་དགོས་སམ་མར་ཐིམ་དགོས་སམ།

   Goe di kam-go sam mar-tim-go sam

   Should this be machine dried or air dried?

   Usage

   Used to clarify drying instructions for clothing at a laundry

   Grammar Note

   "Sam" forms alternative questions. "A sam B sam" creates the structure "is it A or B?"

4. གོས་འདི་ཉིན་ག་ཚད་ལས་བཟོ་ཐོན་འོང་།

   Goe di nyin ga-tse lay zo-ton ong

   When will these clothes be ready?

   Usage

   Used to ask when your clothes will be ready at a laundry or dry cleaner

   Grammar Note

   "Ong" is a future auxiliary verb, meaning "will" or "is expected to"

5. གོས་འདི་གིས་གཞི་མི་ཐུབ།

   Goe di gi zhi mi-tub

   This garment cannot be ironed

   Usage

   Used to inform the laundry that a delicate garment should not be ironed

   Grammar Note

   "Mi-tub" is the negative capability form meaning "cannot." Used to convey restrictions

6. ཁྲུས་རིན་ག་ཚད་ལགས།

   Tru-rin ga-tse la

   How much is the laundry fee?

   Usage

   Used to ask the price of laundry service

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-tse" is the question word for quantity and price, used broadly when asking "how much"

7. གོས་འདི་ཐིག་ལེའི་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།

   Goe di tig-ley gyu yin

   This garment is made of delicate material

   Usage

   Used to inform the laundry about delicate fabric requiring special care

   Grammar Note

   "Yin" is the copula "is/am/are" used to describe characteristics and material types

8. གོས་ཁྲུས་བྱེད་ས་ག་དེ་ལས་ཡོདཔ་ལགས།

   Goe-tru je-sa ga-de lay yoepa la

   Where is the coin laundry?

   Usage

   Used to find a self-service coin-operated laundry

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-de lay" questions place and direction, emphasizing the starting point compared to "ga-te"

9. ཞལ་ཟས་གོས་ལ་ཟུག་འདུག།

   Zhal-zay goe la zug-dug

   There is a food stain on the clothes

   Usage

   Used to point out a food stain on clothing when bringing it to the laundry

   Grammar Note

   "Dug" is an evidential existential verb used when the speaker directly observes what they describe

10. གོས་འདི་གདམས་ངག་གིས་ཁྲུས་གནང་།

    Goe di dam-ngag gi tru nang

    Please wash these clothes carefully

    Usage

    Used to request careful handling when washing delicate or valuable clothing

    Grammar Note

    "Dam-ngag gi" uses the instrumental particle "gi" to indicate manner or method

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