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Chapter 4: འཚམས་འདྲི་དང་ངོ་སྤྲོད། Greetings and Personal Information

Buddhist teacher dressed in red and orange greeting people.
“His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin Ratna Vajra Rinpoche greeting Tibetan community members at the airport” by ngawangchodron is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

Chapter Goals

  1. You will learn how to greet people at different times of the day.
  2. You will learn how to ask for their name, formally and informally.
  3. You will learn how to ask where someone is from, with specific names of the places.
  4. You will learn how to politely say goodbye, stay well, go well, see you next time.
  5. You will use the adverb (also) in context.
  6. You will learn about auxiliary verbs: ཡིན་ I am and མིན་ I am not.
  7. You will learn about genitive or possessive case markers གི་ ཀྱི་ གྱི་ འི་ ཡི་and their grammar rules.

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