5.4 Sentence Structure 2: Asking About Residence and Contact Information

How to Ask Where Someone Lives

By using the auxiliary/ending verb, ཀྱི་ཡོད། preceded with the question marker ག་པར། (where) as shown below. And how to use the adverb ཡང་། (also) when responding to the question.

Listen to the audio and practice the following sentences.

Conversation with Your Partner

Talk to three peers and find out their names, nationalities, countries, and the cities that they live in.

Asking Your Companions Who They Are and Where They Live

In the following sentences, ask 3rd person questions such as who he is or she is by using the essential auxiliary/ending verb རེད། (is) preceded by question marker སུ་ (who).

If question marker རེད་པས་ (is it?) is used at the end of the sentence, then the information must be included in the sentences, such as the information of their nationality, where they live, etc.

When asked a question about the residence of a 3rd person, the existential auxiliary ཡོད་རེད། is used, and the question pronoun ག་པར། (where) precedes it.

Listen to the audio and practice the following sentences.

Asking For and Giving a Phone Number

Numbers From 1-10 in Tibetan (ཨང་གྲངས་ 1 ནས་ 10 བར།)

Listen to the audio and practice the numbers.

Challenge Yourself

Activity 1: Drag the Words

Activity 2: Conversation

Pair up with a partner or practice on your own to learn how to exchange phone numbers in Tibetan.

Q: ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ཁ་པར་ ཨང་གྲངས་ ག་རེ་རེད།

A: ངའི་ཁ་པར་ ཨང་གྲངས་ 608 421 4075 རེད།

Activity 3: Speaking

Activity 4: Match the Sentences

Activity 5: Drag the Words

Work with a partner or on your own to see if you can say the following sentences in Tibetan.

Activity 6: Making Questions

Make the following statements into question and converse with your partner with follow up questions.

1. She is Tibetan. She lives in Lhasa.
2. Your girl friend is Japanese.
3. She is my girlfriend. She is also a Tibetan.
4. She is from America.
5. I live in Tibet.
6. My girlfriend lives in India.
7. My phone number is 608 421 4075

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Listen to the audio and practice the following sentences.

Challenge Yourself

Activity 7: Drag the Words

Work with a partner or on your own to complete the following sentences.

Activity 8: Writing

Write the following sentences in Tibetan.

1. She is Tibetan. She lives in Lhasa.
2. Where does your girlfriend live?
3. She is my girlfriend. She is also a Tibetan.
4. She lives in Japan.
5. I live in Tibet. Where do you live?
6. My girlfriend lives in India.
7. Which County is your friend from?