8.2 Vocabulary ཚིག་གསར།
མིང་ཚིག་གསར་པ། New Vocabulary
Use the audio file and practice the following vocabulary.
| Number | Tibetan | Grammatical Category | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | གཟིགས་དང་། | Interjection | Look! |
| 2. | ངའི་ནང་མི། | Noun phrase (possessive) | my family members |
| 3. | ཨ་མ་ལགས། | Noun | mother |
| 4. | སྙིང་རྗེ་པ་ལ། | Exclamatory adjective phrase (expressing evaluation) | It is so cute! |
| 5. | པ་ལགས། | Noun | father |
| 6. | ནང་མི། | Noun | family member |
| 7. | སྤོ་ལགས། | Noun | grandfather |
| 8. | སུ་སུ། | Interrogative pronoun (or question word) | who and who |
| 9. | རྨོ་མོ་ལགས། | Noun | grandmother |
| 10. | ག་གི། | Interrogative determiner | which |
| 11. | གཅུང་མོ། | Noun | younger sister |
| 12. | གཅེན་མོ། | Noun | older sister |
| 13. | གཅུང་པོ། | Noun | younger brother |
| 14. | གཅེན་པོ། | Noun | elder brother |
| 15. | གཡས་འདི། | Demonstrative noun phrase (used to specify a particular one) | the one on the right |
| 16. | གཡོན་འདི། | Demonstrative noun phrase | the one on the left |
| 17. | སྲུ་མོ་ལགས། | Noun | maternal aunt |
| 18. | དཀྱིལ་དེ། | Demonstrative noun phrase | the middle one |
| 19. | ཨ་ཞང་ལགས། | Noun | maternal uncle |
| 20. | འདི་སུ་རེད། | Interrogative sentence (or pronoun phrase in question form) | Who is this? |
| 21. | སྤུ་གུ། | Noun | child |
| 22. | འདི་གཉིས་སུ་རེད། | Interrogative sentence (or phrase) | Who are these two? |
| 23. | ལོ། | Noun (often used to mean “year” as a measure of age) | age |
| 24. | དགུང་ལོ། | Noun | age (formal) |
| 25. | ག་ཚོད། | Interrogative determiner/adverb (quantifier) | how many, how much |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Match the Kinship Words
Activity 2: Choose the Kinship Words
Activity 3: Match the Words
Activity 4: Match the Expressions
Activity 5: Choose the Words
Activity 6: Translate the Sentences
See if you can say the following words in Tibetan.
| Look! | |
| my family members | |
| mother | |
| It is so cute! | |
| father | |
| family member | |
| grandfather | |
| who and who | |
| grandmother | |
| which | |
| younger sister | |
| older sister | |
| younger brother | |
| elder brother | |
| the one on the right | |
| the one on the left | |
| maternal aunt | |
| the middle one | |
| maternal uncle | |
| Who is this? | |
| child | |
| Who are these two? | |
| age | |
| age (formal) | |
| how many, how much |
