Pharmacy & Health

1. མགོ་ན་གི་སྨན་ཡོད་པ་སྨོ།

   Go na gi men yoe pa mo?

   Do you have headache medicine?

   Usage

   Ask for headache medicine in Dzongkha at a Bhutanese pharmacy

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha is Bhutan's national language, closely related to Tibetan and uses Tibetan script

2. ང་ལུ་པ་ལུང་གི་སྨན་དགོ།

   Nga lu palung gi men go

   I need stomach medicine

   Usage

   Use when you need stomach medicine

   Grammar Note

   "Nga lu ... go" = "I need ..." (literally "to me, ... is needed")

3. ང་ལུ་བཤལ་ནད་ཀྱི་སྨན་དགོ།

   Nga lu shel ne gi men go

   I need anti-diarrhea medicine

   Usage

   Ask for anti-diarrhea medicine

   Grammar Note

   "Nga lu … go" means "I need …". "Shel ne" is diarrhea and "men" is medicine

4. ང་ལུ་ཚ་བ་ཡོད།

   Nga lu tsawa yoe

   I have a fever

   Usage

   Tell the pharmacist you have a fever

   Grammar Note

   "Yoe" is the Dzongkha existential verb meaning "have/exist"

5. ང་ལུ་སྐྱི་ཤི་ཡོད།

   Nga lu kyishi yoe

   I have an allergy

   Usage

   Inform the pharmacist about your allergy

   Grammar Note

   Bhutan uses GNH (Gross National Happiness) as its policy metric; healthcare is free

6. ང་ལུ་མ་འདྲིས་སྐུར་སྦར་དགོ།

   Nga lu ma dris kur bar go

   I need bandages/plasters

   Usage

   Ask for bandages or plasters at a pharmacy

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha shares Tibetan script but pronunciation differs significantly from Tibetan

7. ང་ལུ་ཞི་ཕྲུག་གི་སྨན་དགོ།

   Nga lu zhiphruk gi men go

   I need insect repellent

   Usage

   Ask for insect repellent at a pharmacy

   Grammar Note

   Southern Bhutan is tropical with malaria risk. Insect repellent is an important health item

8. ང་ལུ་ཉི་མའི་སྨན་དགོ།

   Nga lu nyima'i men go

   I need sunscreen

   Usage

   Ask for sunscreen at a pharmacy

   Grammar Note

   "Nyima" means "sun" in Dzongkha (same as Tibetan)

9. སྨན་འདི་ག་དེ་སྦེ་ཟ་དགོ།

   Men di ga-de-be za go?

   How do I take this medicine?

   Usage

   Ask the pharmacist how to take the medicine

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-de-be" means "how" in Dzongkha. "Go" expresses necessity ("must / need to")

10. གསོ་སྡེ་ཡིག་དགོ་ག།

    So de yig go ga?

    Do I need a prescription?

    Usage

    Check if a prescription is needed

    Grammar Note

    "Ga" is a question particle in Dzongkha. "Go" means "need / must"

11. བཤལ་སྨན་གཅིག་གནང་།

    Shel men chig nang

    A laxative, please

    Usage

    Ask for a laxative at a pharmacy. བཤལ་སྨན་ means laxative (literally "purging medicine")

    Grammar Note

    The "…གཅིག་གནང་།" frame ("… please"), filled with བཤལ་སྨན (laxative)

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