Public Transport

1. གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གི་དཀྱིལ་ལུ་འགྱོ་མི་བཱསི་ག་ཅི་ཡིན་ན།

   Drong khyer gi kyil lu gyo mi baasi ga chi yin na?

   Which bus goes to the city center?

   Usage

   Used at a bus stop to identify the correct bus to the city center

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha is a Tibetic language — Bhutan's national language. It follows SOV word order

2. [ས་གནས་]ལུ་བཀག་ས་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ཡོད།

   [Sa-ne] lu kag-sa ga-dem-chig yoe

   How many stops to [destination]?

   Usage

   Used to ask how many stops to the destination

   Grammar Note

   A stop (for buses and trains) is kag-sa or doe-sa. The quantity interrogative ga-dem-chig follows the noun

3. འདི་ལུ་བབས་ར་བྱིན་ནི་ལགས།

   Di lu bab ra jin ni la.

   Please let me off here.

   Usage

   Used to politely ask the driver to let you off here

   Grammar Note

   "la" (ལགས) is a polite sentence-final particle in Dzongkha

4. འདི་གཞོགས་ལུ་སྡོད་ས་ཅིག་ཡོད་ན།

   Di zhog lu doe sa chig yoe na?

   Is this seat taken?

   Usage

   Used to check if a seat is available

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha questions are formed with sentence-final question particles

5. མཇུག་གི་བཱསི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ལུ་འགྱོ་ག།

   Jug gi baasi chu tshoe ga dem chig lu gyo ga?

   What time is the last bus?

   Usage

   Used to find out when the last bus departs

   Grammar Note

   "chu-tsod ga-dem-chig" is the expression for asking "what time" ("ga-dem-chig" means "how much")

6. ཤོག་འཛིན་ག་ཏེ་ལས་ཉོ་ཚུགས།

   Shog-zin ga-te le nyo tshug

   Where can I buy a ticket?

   Usage

   Used to ask where to purchase a transport ticket

   Grammar Note

   "ཤོག་འཛིན" is the transport-related sense of "ticket"; "-tshug" expresses ability or possibility.

7. འདི་བཱསི་གཙོང་ར་ལུ་སྡོད་པར་འོང་ན།

   Di baasi tsong ra lu doe par ong na?

   Does this bus stop at the market?

   Usage

   Used to confirm whether the bus stops at the market

   Grammar Note

   The final "na?" is a question particle meaning "is it so?"

8. ཕུགས་སྟེགས་ག་ལུ་ལས་ར་འགྱོ་མི་ཡིན།

   Phug teg ga lu le ra gyo mi yin?

   Which platform does it depart from?

   Usage

   Used at a station to find the departure platform

   Grammar Note

   "-las" is the ablative postposition meaning "from"

9. ཐད་ཀར་ལམ་ཞིག་ཡོད་ན།

   The kar lam zhig yoe na?

   Is there a direct route?

   Usage

   Used to ask if there is a direct route

   Grammar Note

   "yod na?" is the existential question "is there?"

10. འགྲུལ་བཞུད་ལུ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་འགོར་འོང་ག།

    Drul zhue lu chu tshoe ga dem chig gor ong ga?

    How long does the journey take?

    Usage

    Used to ask the duration of the journey

    Grammar Note

    "'gor" is the verb meaning "to take time/require"

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