Volunteering

1. ང་འདི་ཁར་ཁས་བླངས་འབད་ནི་ཨིན། ཐོ་བཀོད་ཇི་ལྟར་འབད་དགོ།

   Nga di khar khe lang be ni in. Tho koe ji tar be go?

   I'd like to volunteer here. How do I sign up?

   Usage

   Used to express interest in volunteering and ask about registration

   Grammar Note

   Dzongkha is SOV with verbs at the end. ji ltar 'bad dgo means "how should it be done?"

2. ཁས་བླངས་པ་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལྟེ་བ་ག་ཏེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Khe lang pa dzin kyong te ba ga te yoep in na?

   Where is the volunteer coordination centre?

   Usage

   Used to ask for the location of the volunteer management office

   Grammar Note

   yodpa in na is the interrogative existential form. ga te means "where"

3. ང་ལུ་སླབ་སྟོན་/སྨན་བཅོས་/བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གྱི་ཉམས་མྱོང་ཡོད།

   Nga lu lab ton / men choe / zo trun gyi nyam nyong yoe.

   I have experience in teaching / medical / construction.

   Usage

   Used to communicate your professional background or skills

   Grammar Note

   nga lu … yoe is the Dzongkha possessive construction meaning "I have …"

4. ཁས་བླངས་པ་གི་ཆེད་ལུ་དུས་ཡུན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Khe lang pa gi che lu due yun ga dem chig gop in na?

   How long is the volunteer commitment?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the expected duration of volunteer service

   Grammar Note

   ga dem cig is the Dzongkha quantity interrogative meaning "how much/long"

5. ང་ལུ་དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ལཱ་ཆས་ཡང་ན་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Nga lu mig sel gyi la chey yang na jong dar gop in na?

   Do I need any special equipment or training?

   Usage

   Used to ask about required equipment or pre-activity training

   Grammar Note

   nga lu … dgop in na is the necessity question structure "do I need …?"

6. ང་རྐྱེན་ངན་ཚབས་ཆེན་/མཐའ་སྐོར་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ཀྱི་ལཱ་ལུ་རོགས་རམ་འབད་དགོ།

   Nga kyen ngen tshab chen / tha kor sung kyob kyi la lu rog ram be go.

   I'd like to help with disaster relief / environmental work.

   Usage

   Used to express interest in a specific area of volunteer work

   Grammar Note

   rogsram dgos expresses "need to help / want to help" in Dzongkha

7. ཁས་བླངས་པ་གི་ཆེད་ལུ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Khe lang pa gi che lu ngo troe tshog du yoep in na?

   Is there a volunteer orientation session?

   Usage

   Used to ask whether an introductory orientation is provided

   Grammar Note

   yodpa in na is the standard Dzongkha existential question form meaning "is there?"

8. ང་སྡེ་ཚན་གཅིག་གི་འཐུས་མི་སྦེ་ཁས་བླངས་འབད་ཚུགས་ག།

   Nga de tshen chig gi thue mi be khe lang be tshug ga?

   Can I volunteer as part of a group?

   Usage

   Used when wanting to participate as part of a team or group

   Grammar Note

   tshug ga is the Dzongkha ability/possibility question form meaning "can…?"

9. ཁས་བླངས་པ་གི་ཆེད་ལུ་སྡོད་གནས་དང་ཁ་ལག་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Khe lang pa gi che lu doe ne dang kha lag nang yoep in na?

   Are accommodation and meals provided for volunteers?

   Usage

   Used to check living conditions for longer-term volunteer placements

   Grammar Note

   gnang is an honorific verb meaning "to provide/give"; Dzongkha has a rich honorific system

10. ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ག་ཅི་ཞིག་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་ཐད་ལུ་རོགས་རམ་དགོས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Khyoe kyi ga chi zhig gi ke yig the lu rog ram go yoep in na?

    What languages do you need help with?

    Usage

    Used when offering language or translation volunteer support

    Grammar Note

    skad yig is a compound meaning "language/speech and script"; used for both concepts

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