Remote Work

1. ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་ལཱ་འབད་སའི་ས་གོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Nye-dab lu la be sai sa-go yoe-pa in-nam

   Is there a coworking space nearby?

   Usage

   Used to find a coworking space nearby

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha has no lexical equivalent of "coworking space", so this describes it as "a space for doing work". "Yoe-pa in-nam" is the existential question form

2. ཝི་ཕི་གི་གསང་ཡིག་ག་ཅི་ཨིན་ན།

   Wi-fi gi sang-yig ga-chi in-na

   What is the WiFi password?

   Usage

   Used to ask for the WiFi password at a café or workspace

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-chi in-na" asks "what is it?". The word for password is sang-yig, also sang-tshig for devices

3. ཝི་ཕི་འདི་བརྙན་འཁོར་བརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་མགྱོགས་ཤུགས་ལངམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Wi-fi di nyen-khor gyue-trin gi doen lu gyog-shug langm yoe-pa in-nam

   Is the WiFi fast enough for video calls?

   Usage

   Used to check if the WiFi is fast enough for video calls

   Grammar Note

   There is no single word for "video call", so video (nyen-khor) and telephone call (gyue-trin) are compounded. "Doen lu" means "for the purpose of"

4. ཁུ་སིམ་སི་གི་ས་ཁོངས་ཡང་ན་སྒེར་གྱི་ཁང་ཆུང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Khu-sim-si gi sa-khong yang-na ger-gyi khang-chung yoe-pa in-nam

   Do you have a quiet area or private booth?

   Usage

   Used to find a quiet space or private booth for focused work

   Grammar Note

   "Yang-na" is a disjunctive "or/alternatively," offering alternative choices

5. ནཱ་ལུ་ཉིནམ་ཆ་ཚང་ལཱ་འབད་ཆོག་གམ།

   Na lu nyim cha-tshang la be chog-gam

   Can I work here all day?

   Usage

   Used to check if you can stay and work all day

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" is a permission question "is it okay to...?"

6. ནཱ་ལུ་པར་བཏབ་ནི་དང་འདྲ་བཤུས་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་མཁོ་ཆས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Na lu par tab ni dang dra-shue kyab nii kho-che yoe-pa in-nam

   Is there equipment for printing / photocopying here?

   Usage

   Used to check if printing or copying facilities are available. Dzongkha has no word for document scanning, so "photocopy" (dra-shue) is used

   Grammar Note

   "…nii kho-che" means "equipment for doing …": the verbal noun in -ni takes the genitive -i

7. སྡོད་ཁྲི་འདི་གི་ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་གློག་ཁ་འདུག་གམ།

   Doe-thri di gi nye-dab lu log-kha du-gam

   Is there a power outlet near this seat?

   Usage

   Used to check for a power outlet near your workspace

   Grammar Note

   "Du-gam" asks about the existence of something directly observable

8. ང་ལུ་[ཆུ་ཚོད་]ལུ་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་གི་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཡོད།

   Nga lu [chu-tshoe] lu yong-drel thog gi zhel-dzom yoe

   I have an online meeting at [time]

   Usage

   Used to inform others that you have an online meeting at a specific time

   Grammar Note

   "Yong-drel thog gi" means "online / over the internet", as in yong-drel thog gi tshig-dzoe "online dictionary". "Nga lu … yoe" expresses possession or an upcoming event

9. ཉིནམ་གཅིག་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནིའི་གོང་ཚད་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་ཨིན་ན།

   Nyim chig lag-len thab nii gong-tshe ga-dem-chig in-na

   What is the price for a day pass?

   Usage

   Used to ask the price of one day's use. Dzongkha has no word for "pass/membership", so this says "the price for using it for one day"

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-dem-chig" is the quantity interrogative "how much", also used for prices

10. ལངས་སྡོད་སྦེ་ལཱ་འབད་སའི་འབྲི་ཅོག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Long-doe be la be sai dri-chog yoe-pa in-nam

    Is there a standing desk available?

    Usage

    Used to ask if a standing desk is available; Dzongkha has no single word, so this says "a desk for working while standing"

    Grammar Note

    "Be" links a manner clause: "standing (and) working"

11. བཙན་སྒམ་ཡང་ན་ཅ་ཆས་བཞག་སའི་ས་གོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Tsen-gam yang-na cha-che zhag sai sa-go yoe-pa in-nam

    Is there a locker or storage I can use?

    Usage

    Used to ask about locker or storage space availability

    Grammar Note

    "Yang-na" is the disjunctive conjunction "or". ཅ་ལ can mean "goods, things", but it also appears in ཕོའི་ཅ་ལ / མོའི་ཅ་ལ, the male and female genitals, so the unambiguous ཅ་ཆས (belongings, gear, articles) is used instead. བཙན་སྒམ means "locker".

12. ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་པར་བཏབ་སའི་ཚོང་ཁང་ག་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Nye-dab lu par tab sai tshong-khang ga te yoe-pa in-na

    Where is the nearest print shop?

    Usage

    Used to find a nearby print shop or copy centre

    Grammar Note

    Verb + sa forms "the place where …". Dzongkha has no word for "nearest", so nye-dab "nearby" is used

13. ཨིན་ཊར་ནེཊ་འདི་མགྱོགས་དྲགས་མེདཔ། མཐུད་འབྲེལ་མགྱོགས་དྲགས་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    In-tar-net di gyog-drag mepa. Thue-drel gyog-drag chig yoe-pa in-nam

    The internet is too slow — is there a faster connection?

    Usage

    Used when the internet is too slow and you need a faster connection

    Grammar Note

    "Slow" is rendered as gyog-drag mepa "not fast"; "mepa" is the negative of existence or quality

14. ལཱ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་པའི་སིམ་ཀར་ཌི་ཅིག་ཉོ་ནི་ཨིན།

    La gi doen lu yong-drel yoe pai sim-kar-di chig nyo ni in

    I'd like to buy a SIM card with data for work

    Usage

    Used to buy a data SIM card for remote work

    Grammar Note

    "SIM card" has no Dzongkha word of its own and is transliterated from English, as with in-tar-net "internet". "Doen lu" means "for the purpose of"

15. འབྲི་ཅོག་ཅིག་ཧེ་མ་ལས་བང་བཏབ་འབད་ཆོག་གམ།

    Dri-chog chig he-ma le bang-tab be chog-gam

    Can I reserve a desk in advance?

    Usage

    Used to book a desk at a coworking space in advance

    Grammar Note

    Bang-tab is the word for reservation, "securing a seat or lodging beforehand". "Chog-gam" asks permission or possibility

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