9.2 Vocabulary ཚིག་གསར།
Use the audio file and practice the following vocabulary.
| Number | Tibetan | Grammatical Category | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཁང་པ། | Nouns | house |
| 2. | ཐོག་ག | Nouns | upstairs |
| 3. | ཐོག་རྩེག་ | Nouns | stories (building) |
| 4. | ཁང་མིག | Nouns | room |
| 5. | གསར་པ། | Adjective | new |
| 6. | བར་ཁང་། | Nouns | middle floor |
| 7. | རྙིང་པ། | Adjective | old |
| 8. | སྟེང་ཁང་། | Nouns | top floor |
| 9. | ཡར་ཕེབས་གནང་། | Imperative sentence (Command) | Come in, please! |
| 10. | འོག་ཁང་། | Nouns | basement |
| 11. | མཆོད། | Verb | eat, drink (h) |
| 12. | ཆུང་ཆུང་། | Adjective | small |
| 13. | ཡག་ག་ལ། | Exclamatory sentence | How good! |
| 14. | སྔོན་ལ། | Adverb | first |
| 15. | སྣང་བར་ཕྱིན། | Verb phrase | to like something |
| 16. | མཆོད་དོ། | Imperative sentence (First-person plural) | Let’s eat! |
| 17. | སྙིང་རྗེ་པོ། | Adjective | beautiful |
| 18. | འདི་ལ། | Prepositional phrase | to this |
| 19. | ཞེ་དྲགས། | Adjective | very |
| 20. | ཞིག | Indefinite article | a |
| 21. | བཞུགས་དང་། | Verb phrase | Please sit! |
| 22. | འོག | Nouns | under |
| 23. | མཉམ་དུ། | Adverb | with |
| 24. | སྒང་། | Nouns | on |
| 25. | ཞུ་ཡི་མིན། | Declarative sentence | Don’t want. |
| 26. | འཁྲིས། | Nouns | next to |
| 27. | བསྟན་རོགས་གནང་། | Imperative sentence (Polite command) | Please show! |
| 28. | རྒྱབ། | Nouns | behind |
| 29. | ཕེབས་དོ། | Imperative sentence (First-person plural) | Let’s go! |
| 30. | མདུན། | Nouns | front |
| 31. | མེ་ཏོག | Nouns | flower |
| 32. | དངོས་གནས། | Adverb | really |
| 33. | ཁ་སྤྲོད། | Nouns | opposite |
| 34. | ཀྱང་། | Adverb | also (literary) |
| 35. | རེད་དམ། | Interrogative | Is it? |
| 36. | ཡང་ན། | Coordinating conjunction | or |
| 37. | རླངས་འཁོར་བཞག་ས། | Nouns | car parking |
| 38. | དེ་ནས། | Adverb | and then |
| 39. | ཚོན་མདོག | Nouns | color |
| 40. | ལྗང་ཁུ། | Nouns (color) | green |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Match the Words 1
Activity 2: Match the Words 2
Activity 3: Match the Words 3
Activity 4: Match the Expressions
Activity 5: Translate the Words
See if you can say the following words in Tibetan.
| house | |
| upstairs | |
| stories (building) | |
| room | |
| new | |
| middle floor | |
| old | |
| top floor | |
| Come in, please! | |
| basement | |
| eat, drink (h) | |
| small | |
| How good! | |
| firstly | |
| to like something | |
| Let’s eat! | |
| beautiful | |
| to this | |
| very | |
| a | |
| Please sit! | |
| under | |
| with | |
| on | |
| Don’t want. | |
| next to | |
| Please show! | |
| behind | |
| Let’s go! | |
| front | |
| flower | |
| really | |
| opposite | |
| also (literary) | |
| Is it? | |
| or | |
| car parking | |
| and then | |
| color | |
| green |
