4.4 Sentence Structure: Exchanging Personal Information Section (2)
Find Where People Are From
Finding where people are from by using ག་ནས། (from where) and using ཡང་། (also).
Use the audio and practice the following sentences.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཁྱེད་རང་ག་ནས་ཡིན། | Where are you from? |
| 2. | ང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན། | I am from Tibet. |
| 3. | ཨ་ནི། ཁྱེད་རང་ག་ནས་ཡིན། | And where are you from? |
| 4. | ང་ཡང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན། | I am also from Tibet. |
| 5. | ཁྱེད་རང་བོད་ག་ནས་ཡིན། | Which part of Tibet are you from? |
| 6. | ང་བོད་ལྷ་ས་ནས་ཡིན། | I am from Lhasa, Tibet. |
| 7. | ཨ་ལས་རེད་པས། | Oh, I see! Is that right? |
Regions of Tibet
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Matching
Pair Work: Matching. Read the correct Tibetan sentences to the English sentences.
| Number | English | Tibetan |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Which part of Tibet are you from? | ཁྱེད་རང་ག་ནས་ཡིན། |
| 2. | Where are you from? | ང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན། |
| 3. | I am also from Tibet. | ཨ་ནི། ཁྱེད་རང་ག་ནས་ཡིན། |
| 4. | Where are you from then? | ང་ཡང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན། |
| 5. | I am from Tibet. | ཁྱེད་རང་བོད་ག་ནས་ཡིན། |
Activity 2: Choose the Proper Word Order
Pair Work: Say the following words in proper order.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ག་ནས་ ཁྱེད་རང་ ཡིན། | Where are you from? |
| 2. | བོད་ ང་ ཡིན། ནས | I am from Tibet. |
| 3. | བོད་ ག་ནས་ ཡིན། ཁྱེད་རང་ | Which part of Tibet are you from? |
| 4. | ཡང་ ཡིན། ང་ བོད་ནས་ | I am from Tibet too. |
| 5. | ལྷ་ས་ནས་ ང་ བོད་ ཡིན། | I am from Lhasa, Tibet. |
| 6. | པས། རེད་ ཨ་ལས་ | I see, is that right? |
Saying Goodbye
How to say goodbyes in Tibetan when you are leaving.
Use the audio file and practice the following sentences.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ག་ལེར་བཞུགས། རྗེས་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། | Stay well. See you later! |
| 2. | ག་ལེར་ཕེབས། རྗེས་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། | Go well. See you later. |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 3: Drag the Words
Pair work: Practice with your partner how to say goodbyes when you are leaving.
