2.1 Frequent Expressions, Ten Suffix Letters, Two Post Suffix Letters (རྗེས་འཇུག་དང་ཡང་འཇུག)
Frequent Expressions
Practice the following frequent expressions with the help of the audio files provided.
| Number | Tibetan | Transliteration | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | བཞུགས་དང་། | ShugDhang | Please, have a seat. |
| 2. | ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། | ThukJe Che | Thank you. |
| 3. | གའི་གནང་གི་མ་རེད། | Gai NangGyi MaRey | You are welcome. |
| 4. | ལ་སོ་ལ་སོ། | LaSo LaSo | Okay, okay. |
| 5. | ངས་ཤེས་མ་སོང་། | Nge Shey MaSong | I did not understand. |
| 6. | ཡང་བསྐྱར་གསུངས་དང་། | YangKyar SoongDhang | Please, say it again. |
| 7. | ག་ལེར་གསུངས་དང་། | GaLer SoongDhang | Please, say it slowly. |
| 8. | ཤེས་སོང་ངམ། | Shey SongNgam | Did you understand it? |
| 9. | ངས་ཤེས་སོང་། | Nge SheySong | I understood it. |
Ten Suffix Letters – Root Letters རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ།
The ten suffix letters conjugated with the root letters and their pronunciations.
Listen to the audio file and practice how to spell and conjugate the suffix letters to read it together.
| Suffix Letter | Tibetan Word | English Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ག་ | ལག་པ། | hand |
| ང་ | ཁང་པ། | house |
| ད་ | པད་མ། | lotus |
| ན་ | བན་དེ། | monk |
| བ་ | ཐབ་ཚང་། | kitchen |
| མ་ | ཟམ་པ། | bridge |
| འ་ | འཇའ། | rainbow |
| ར་ | ཆར་པ། | rain |
| ལ་ | བལ། | cotton |
| ས་ | ལས་ཀ། | work |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Pronounce the Words
See if you can pronounce the words below correctly. You may work with a partner or on your own.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ལག་པ། | hand |
| 2. | ཁང་པ། | house |
| 3. | པད་མ། | lotus |
| 4. | བན་དེ། | monk |
| 5. | ཐབ་ཚང་། | kitchen |
| 6. | ཟམ་པ། | bridge |
| 7. | འཇའ། | rainbow |
| 8. | ཆར་པ། | rain |
| 9. | བལ། | cotton |
| 10. | ལས་ཀ། | work |
Activity 2: Choose the Suffix
Activity 3: Drag the Words
Activity 4: Speaking
Ten Suffix Letters – Vowels རྗེས་འཇུག་བཅུ།
The ten suffix letters conjugated with vowels and their pronunciations.
Listen to the audio file and practice how to spell and conjugate the suffix letters with vowels and how to read it together.
Challenge Yourself
Activity 5: Pronounce the Words
See if you can pronounce the words below correctly. You may work with a partner or on your own.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | མིག་ཆུ། | tear |
| 2. | ཆུང་ཆུང་། | small |
| 3. | བོད་པ། | Tibetan |
| 4. | ཆེན་པོ། | big |
| 5. | དེབ་ཁུག | school bag |
| 6. | ཞིམ་པོ། | delicious |
| 7. | ལེའུ་ཚན། | section |
| 8. | འུར་ཤོབ། | exaggeration |
| 9. | རིལ་རིལ། | spherical |
| 10. | གོས་ཐུང་། | pants |
Activity 6: Choose the Suffix
Activity 7: Drag the Words
Activity 8: Speaking
Two Post Suffix Letters
The two post suffix letters ད་ do not change the sound of the root letter in the syllable; however, they alter the sound of the word from a flat tone to a contour tone.
The post suffix ས་ is used after the first suffix letters ག་ང་བ་མ་།
Listen to the audio file and practice how to spell and conjugate the post suffix letter (ས) and read it together.
| Tibetan Word | ཇ་ཚགས། | གངས། | ཆར་ཁེབས། | སེམས་ཅན། | ཐམས་ཅད། |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Meaning | tea strainer | snow | raincoat | living beings | all |
The post suffix ད་ is used after the first suffix letters ན་ར་ལ་།
Listen to the audio file and practice how to spell and conjugate the pos suffix letter (ད) and how to read it together.
| Tibetan Word | ཕྱིནད། | བསྟནད། | བསྐོརད། | གྱུརད། | སྩལད་བ། |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Meaning | went | to show | to turn circle | to transform | to bestow |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 9: Pronounce the Words
See if you can pronounce the words below correctly. You may work with a partner or on your own.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཇ་ཚགས། | tea strainer |
| 2. | གངས། | snow |
| 3. | ཆར་ཁེབས། | raincoat |
| 4. | སེམས་ཅན། | living beings |
| 5. | ཐམས་ཅད། | all |
