Skiing & Winter Sports

1. སྐི་ལག་ཆས་ག་ནེ་ལས་གདམ་ཆོག།

   Ski lag-che ga-ne le gam chog

   Where can I rent ski equipment?

   Usage

   Used to find out where to rent ski equipment

   Grammar Note

   "Gam chog" is a verb phrase meaning "to rent, which is okay/possible"

2. ཉིན་གཅིག་གི་སྐི་ལག་ཁྱེར་ཉོ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Nyin chig gi ski lag-khyer nyo chog-gam

   Can I get a ski pass for the day?

   Usage

   Used to purchase a one-day ski pass

   Grammar Note

   "Gi" is the genitive particle "of/for." "Nyin chig gi" means "of one day"

3. གསར་ཤར་ལུ་གང་མཐུན་ལབ་ལར་ག་གི་ཨིན།

   Sar-shar lu gang-thun lab-lar ga-gi yin

   Which slope is recommended for beginners?

   Usage

   Used to ask which ski slope is best for beginners

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-gi yin" is an interrogative "which one/what kind is it?"

4. སྐི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་རེ་ཞིབ་བཀོད་ཞུ་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Ski byong-dar re-zhib ko zhu na do-yi

   I'd like to book a ski lesson

   Usage

   Used to book a skiing lesson at a ski school

   Grammar Note

   "Do-yi" expresses desire "I want/would like to"

5. ཆེར་མིང་འཁྱོག་ས་ག་ནེ་ཨིན།

   Cher-ming khyog sa ga-ne yin

   Where is the chairlift?

   Usage

   Used to find the chairlift location

   Grammar Note

   Foreign terms like "chairlift" are phonetically transcribed into Dzongkha

6. ཐེང་འདི་འཁྱགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Theng di khyag yoe-pa yin-nam

   Is the slope icy / powdery today?

   Usage

   Used to check current snow conditions on the slopes

   Grammar Note

   "Yin-nam" is a sentence-final question particle meaning "is it?"; "yoe-pa" means "to be / exist"

7. ང་ལྷུང་སོང་། ཁྱེད་རང་གནས་སྟངས་ག་དེ་སྨོ།

   Nga lhung-song; khe-rang ne-tang ga-de-mo

   I fell — are you okay? / Are you hurt?

   Usage

   Used after a fall or when someone else has fallen on the slopes

   Grammar Note

   "Lhung-song" means "fell". "Ne-tang ga-de-mo" is a set phrase asking about the other person's condition

8. ལབ་ལར་འདིའི་གནད་བྱེད་ཚད་ག་རིག་ཨིན།

   Lab-lar di-i ne-che tse ga-rig yin

   What is the difficulty rating of this slope?

   Usage

   Used to check the difficulty level of a ski slope

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-rig yin" asks "what kind/type is it?"

9. ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་བཞུགས་རོགས་ས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

   Nye-dab lu zhug-rog sa yoe-pa yin-nam

   Is there a café / warming area nearby?

   Usage

   Used to find a warm area or café to take a break

   Grammar Note

   "Lu" as a locative particle means "at/in/near"

10. སྣོ་བར་གདམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    No-bar gam yoe-pa yin-nam

    Do you rent snowboards?

    Usage

    Used to ask if snowboards are available for rent

    Grammar Note

    "Gam yoe-pa yin-nam" asks "is there [something] available to rent?"

11. ལོག་རྐྱེན་གཅིག་བྱུང་འདུག། རོགས་འདེགས་གནང་།

    Log-kyen chig byung dug; rog-deg nang

    There's been an accident — please call ski patrol

    Usage

    Emergency phrase for calling ski patrol after an accident

    Grammar Note

    "Nang" is an honorific imperative "please do"; "rog-deg nang" means "please help"

12. སང་ཉིན་གྱི་གནམ་གཤིས་ག་དེ་སྦེ་ཨིན་ན།

    Sang-nyin gyi nam-shi ga-de-be in-na

    What's the weather forecast for tomorrow?

    Usage

    Used to check the weather forecast before skiing

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-de-be" asks "how / what is it like?"; "sang-nyin" means "tomorrow"

13. སྐི་ཌི་པར་ཊི་གང་ཡི་གིས་མཐུན་ཡི།

    Ski di-par-ti gang yi gyi thun yi

    What après-ski activities are available?

    Usage

    Used to ask about après-ski entertainment options

    Grammar Note

    The French loan word "après-ski" is phonetically transcribed in Dzongkha

14. སྐི་བར་འདི་ད་རིང་ཁ་ཕྱེཝ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Ski bar di da-ring kha-chewa yin-nam

    Is the resort open today?

    Usage

    Used to check if the ski resort is open today

    Grammar Note

    "Kha-chewa yin-nam" asks "is it open?" ("kha-che" = to open)

15. ཆུང་འཕྲོས་ལུ་སྐི་ལོབ་ཁང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནམ།

    Chung-phro lu ski lob-khang yoe-pa yin-nam

    Is there a ski school for children?

    Usage

    Used to find a ski school for children

    Grammar Note

    "Lu" as a beneficiary particle means "for." "Chung-phro lu" = "for children"

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