Hot Springs & Baths

1. ཚ་ཆུ་ག་ཏེ་འདུག།

   Tsha-chu ga-te du

   Where is the hot spring / public bath?

   Usage

   Basic phrase to find a hot spring. Includes Bhutan's traditional medicinal hot spring "Menchu"

   Grammar Note

   In Bhutan hot springs are called "tsha-chu" and are used in traditional medicine; medicinal waters are also called "men-chu" (སྨན་ཆུ)

2. ལུས་ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚད་ལས་ག་ཚད་ལུ་ཨིན།

   Lu-khru kyi chu-tso ga-tse le ga-tse lu yin

   What are the bathing hours?

   Usage

   Used to check the operating hours of the bath or hot spring

   Grammar Note

   "Le" means "from" and "lu" means "to," forming a range expression

3. བྲིས་རྟགས་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Dri-tag yoe-mi tsu lu chog-gam

   Are people with tattoos allowed?

   Usage

   Used to ask if guests with tattoos are permitted in the bath

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" is a permission question "is it allowed/okay?"

4. ལུས་ཁྲུས་ས་འདི་གདོང་ཕལ་བ་ཡང་ན་བགོ་བཤར་ཡིན་ནམ།

   Lu-khru sa di dong-phel-ba yang-na go-shar yin-nam

   Are the baths mixed-gender or separated?

   Usage

   Important phrase to check if baths are mixed-gender or separate

   Grammar Note

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

5. སྒེར་གྱི་ལུས་ཁྲུས་ཁང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Ger gyi lu-khru khang yoe-pa yin-nam

   Is there a private bath / room available?

   Usage

   Used to ask if a private bathing room is available for exclusive use

   Grammar Note

   "Gyi" is a genitive particle expressing possession or attribution; "ger gyi" means "private"

6. ཆུའི་དྲོ་བ་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།

   Chu-i dro-wa ga-tse yin

   What is the water temperature?

   Usage

   Used to check the temperature of the hot spring before entering

   Grammar Note

   "I" is the genitive particle "of." "Chu-i dro-wa" = "warmth of water" = water temperature

7. སྒྲུལ་ཤམ་འབྱིན་གི་ཡིན་ནམ་གདམ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Drul-sham jin-gi yin-nam gam chog-gam

   Are towels provided or available to rent?

   Usage

   Used to check if towels are included or available to rent

   Grammar Note

   "Yin-nam" is a confirmation question particle "is it...?"

8. ལུས་ཁྲུས་མ་འབད་བའི་ཧེ་མ་ལུ་གཙང་སྦྱར་འབད་ས་ག་ཏེ་ཨིན་ན།

   Lu-khru ma bay-bay he-ma lu tsang-jar bay sa ga-te in-na

   Where should I wash before entering the bath?

   Usage

   Used to ask where to rinse before entering the bath

   Grammar Note

   "He-ma lu" means "before [something]" in time expressions; "lu-khru ma bay-bay" is "not yet bathed"

9. ནང་ལུས་ཁྲུས་དང་ཕྱི་ལུས་ཁྲུས་གི་ཁྱད་པར་ག་གི་ཨིན།

   Nang lu-khru dang chi lu-khru gi khyad-par ga-gi yin

   What are the differences between the indoor and outdoor pools?

   Usage

   Used to ask about differences between indoor and outdoor baths

   Grammar Note

   "Dang" is a coordinating conjunction "and," used to compare two items

10. ཆུ་འདི་ཧུར་ཡི། གྲང་གི་ལུས་ཁྲུས་ས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Chu di hur yi; drang gi lu-khru sa yoe-pa yin-nam

    The water is very hot — is there a cooler pool?

    Usage

    Used to ask about a cooler pool when the hot spring is too hot

    Grammar Note

    "Yi" is a sentence-final copula expressing personal observation/feeling

11. མེ་ཆུ་འདིའི་ནང་ལུ་གདོར་རྫས་ག་རྣམས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

    Me-chu di-i nang lu dor-dze ga-nam yoe-pa yin

    What minerals are in this spring?

    Usage

    Used to ask about the mineral content of a hot spring

    Grammar Note

    "Nang lu" means "inside/within," indicating contents

12. བཙན་སྒམ་ག་ལུར་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་གནང་གི་ཨིན།

    Tsen-gom ga-lur kol-cho nang-gi yin

    How do I use the locker?

    Usage

    Used to ask how to use the locker in the changing room

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-lur" is an interrogative asking "how/in what way"

13. ཆུ་ཁྲུས་ས་ནང་ལུ་ཁ་པར་དང་པར་ཆས་མ་འཁྱེར་གནང་།

    Chu-khru sa nang lu kha-par dang par-che ma chyer nang

    Please don't bring your phone or camera inside

    Usage

    Used to inform guests about the no-phone/camera policy in the bath area

    Grammar Note

    "Ma" + verb + "nang" forms a polite prohibition "please do not ..."; "dang" means "and"

14. ཚ་ཆུ་ནང་ཆུ་སྦང་ནི་ལུ་དུས་ཡུན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Tsha-chu nang chu-bang ni-lu due-yun ga-dem-chig gop in-na?

    How long should I soak?

    Usage

    Used to ask how long one should stay in the hot spring

    Grammar Note

    "ཝ་ནང་ཆུ་སྦང་དགོ་པས" is the expression for “I want to soak in bathtub.”

15. ལུས་ཁྲུས་ས་འདིའི་བཞུགས་གཞིས་ཀྱི་གོང་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།

    Lu-khru sa di-i zhug-zhi kyi gong ga-tse yin

    What is the entry fee?

    Usage

    Used to ask about the entry fee for a hot spring or public bath

    Grammar Note

    "Kyi" is the genitive "of." "Zhug-zhi kyi gong" = "price of entry"

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