ད་ལྟོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།
Da-to chu-tso ga-tse yin
What time is it?
Usage
The most basic phrase for asking what time it is
Grammar Note
"Chu-tso" literally means "water measure," derived from the water clock tradition
ད་རིང་གཟའ་ག་ཅི་ཨིན།
Da-ring za ga-chi yin
What day of the week is it?
Usage
Used to check which day of the week it is
Grammar Note
Dzongkha weekdays are based on planets (Sun: Nyima, Mon: Dawa, Tue: Migmar, etc.)
ད་རིང་/སང་ཉིན་/ཁ་ཙ
Da-ring / Sang-nyin / Kha-tsa
Today / Tomorrow / Yesterday
Usage
Basic date vocabulary commonly used in travel conversations
Grammar Note
"Sang" means "next/future," "nyin" means "day," so "sang-nyin" = tomorrow
གཟའ་འཁོར་འདི/གཟའ་འཁོར་རྗེས་མ/གཟའ་འཁོར་སྔ་མ
Za-khor di / Za-khor je-ma / Za-khor nga-ma
This week / Next week / Last week
Usage
Week expressions used when discussing schedules and plans
Grammar Note
"Khor" means "cycle/rotation," reflecting the cyclical nature of weeks
ཞོགས་པར/གུང་དྲོ་/དགོང་མོ་/མཚན་མོ
Zhog-par / Gung-dro / Gong-mo / Tshen-mo
Morning / Midday / Evening / At night
Usage
Basic vocabulary for times of day
Grammar Note
Time-of-day words combine with location particles "ra/la" to indicate when
ད་རིང་ཚེས་ག་ཚད་ཨིན།
Da-ring tse ga-tse yin
What is today's date?
Usage
Basic phrase for checking today's date
Grammar Note
Bhutan uses both a traditional lunar calendar and the Gregorian solar calendar
ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚད་ལུ་ཁ་ཕྱེ་/ཁ་བསྡམས་ཨིན།
Chu-tso ga-tse lu kha-che / kha-dam yin
At what time does it open / close?
Usage
Used to check opening and closing times of shops or facilities
Grammar Note
"Kha" means "mouth/opening," used metaphorically for open/close
དུས་ཡུན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་འགོར་འོང་།
Due-yun ga-dem-chig gor-ong?
How long will it take to get there?
Usage
Used to ask how long a journey will take
ཆུ་ཚོད་གསུམ་ལུ་མཇལ་འཕྲད་འོང་།
Chu-tso sum lu jal-trad ong
Let's meet at 3 pm
Usage
Used to set a meeting time with someone
Grammar Note
"Lu" as a temporal particle means "at (a time)," placed before time expressions
ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས་དང་སྐར་མ་སུམ་ཅུ
Chu-tso nyi dang kar-ma sum-chu
Two thirty / Half past two
Usage
Used to express specific times with minutes
Grammar Note
"Dang" connects hours and minutes, functioning like "and" in "two and thirty"
གཟའ་སྟེར་གཉིས་ལུ་ཕྱི་བཅད་ཁ་ཕྱེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།
Za-ter nyi lu chi-ce kha-che yoe-pa in-na
Is it open on weekends?
Usage
Used to check if a place is open on weekends
Grammar Note
"Za-ter nyi" refers to "the two days" — Saturday and Sunday
ན་ལུ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཀི་ལམ་ག་གི་ཨིན།
Na lu chu-tso ki lam ga-gi yin
What time zone are we in?
Usage
Used to check the time zone. Bhutan uses BTT (UTC+6)
Grammar Note
Bhutan Standard Time (BTT) is UTC+6:00, 30 minutes ahead of Indian Standard Time
ཆུ་ཚོད་ཧེ་མ་ཤར་/ལྷ་ལྷ་ཤར་ཡི།
Chu-tso he-ma shar / lha-lha shar yi
It's too early / too late
Usage
Used to express that the time is too early or too late
Grammar Note
Dzongkha often expresses "too" through context and tone rather than a separate word
ཟླ་བ་ག་ཅི་ཨིན།
Da-wa ga-chi yin
What month is it?
Usage
Basic phrase for asking what month it is
Grammar Note
"Da-wa" means both "month" (calendar) and "moon" (celestial body)
[ཚེས་/ཆུ་ཚོད]་ལུ་མཇལ་འཕྲད་རེ་ཞིབ་བཀོད་ཞུ་ཆོག་གམ།
[tse/chu-tso] lu jal-trad re-zhib ko zhu chog-gam
I'd like to make an appointment for [date/time]
Usage
Used to make an appointment for a specific date or time
Grammar Note
"Zhu chog-gam" is a polite request question "could you please...?"
ཉིན་གཅིག
Nyin chik
One day
Usage
Word for a duration of "one day"
གཟའ་འཁོར་གཅིག
Za-khor chik
One week
Usage
Word for a one-week duration
ཟླ་བ་གཅིག
Da-wa chik
One month
Usage
Word for a one-month duration
ལོ་གཅིག
Lo chik
One year
Usage
Word for a one-year duration
གཟའ་ཟླ་བ
Za da-wa
Monday
Usage
Word for the day "Monday"
གཟའ་མིག་དམར
Za mig-mar
Tuesday
Usage
Word for the day "Tuesday"
གཟའ་ལྷག་པ
Za lhag-pa
Wednesday
Usage
Word for the day "Wednesday"
གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ
Za phur-bu
Thursday
Usage
Word for the day "Thursday"
གཟའ་པ་སངས
Za pa-sang
Friday
Usage
Word for the day "Friday"
གཟའ་སྤེན་པ
Za pen-pa
Saturday
Usage
Word for the day "Saturday"
གཟའ་ཉི་མ
Za nyi-ma
Sunday
Usage
Word for the day "Sunday"
ད་རིང
Da-ring
Today
Usage
Word to point at and say "today"
སང་ཉིན
Sang-nyin
Tomorrow
Usage
Word to point at and say "tomorrow"
ཁ་ཙ
Kha-tsa
Yesterday
Usage
Word to point at and say "yesterday"
ད་ལྟོ
Da-to
Now
Usage
Word for "right now"
ཞོགས་པར
Zhog-par
Morning
Usage
Word for the time of day "morning"
གུང་དྲོ
Gung-dro
Midday
Usage
Word for the time of day "midday"
དགོང་མོ
Gong-mo
Evening
Usage
Word for the time of day "evening"
ཆུ་ཚོད་གཅིག
Chu-tso chik
One hour
Usage
Word for a duration of "one hour"
ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས
Chu-tso nyi
Two hours
Usage
Word for a duration of "two hours"
སྐར་མ་སུམ་ཅུ
Kar-ma sum-chu
Thirty minutes
Usage
Word for a duration of "thirty minutes"
གཟའ་འཁོར་འདི
Za-khor di
This week
Usage
Word for "this week" on its own
གཟའ་འཁོར་རྗེས་མ
Za-khor je-ma
Next week
Usage
Word for "next week" on its own
གཟའ་འཁོར་སྔ་མ
Za-khor nga-ma
Last week
Usage
Word for "last week" on its own
གཟའ་སྟེར་གཉིས
Za-ter nyi
Weekend
Usage
Word for "weekend"
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དང་པ།
Chi da dang pa
January
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་གཉིས་པ།
Chi da nyi pa
February
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་གསུམ་པ།
Chi da sum pa
March
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཞི་པ།
Chi da zhi pa
April
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ།
Chi da nga pa
May
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དྲུག་པ།
Chi da drug pa
June
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ།
Chi da duen pa
July
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ།
Chi da gyay pa
August
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པ།
Chi da gu pa
September
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ།
Chi da chu pa
October
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ།
Chi da chu chig pa
November
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
Chi da chu nyi pa
December
Usage
Point at the month to confirm a date or a booking
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