3.1 Frequent Expressions and Subjoined Letters (འདོགས་ཅན)
Frequent Expressions
Practice the following frequent expressions with the help of the audio files provided.
| Number | Tibetan | Transliteration | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། | KuKhamSang | Hello./Good health |
| 2. | དགོངས་དག | GongDhak | Sorry |
| 3. | གཟབ་གཟབ་གནང་གོ། | ZabZab NangGo | Be careful |
| 4. | སྤྲོ་པོ་གནང་གོ། | TroPo NangGo | Have fun/enjoy |
| 5. | བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། | KaTrinChe | Thanks./It is so kind of you |
| 6. | རྗེས་མར་མཇལ་ཡོང་། | JeMar JeYong | See you later |
Subjoined Letters
Identify the four subjoined letters:
| ཡ། ya | ར། ra | ལ། la | ཝ། wa |
The Seven Consonants with Subscript Letter ཡ། Ya
Practice the pronunciation of the following subjoined letter ya with the help of the audio file provided.
Follow the step by step spelling order of the letters.
Listen to the audio to hear how each word is pronounced.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཞབས་ཀྱུ། | The Second Tibetan Vowel “Zhabkyu“ |
| 2. | ཁྱི། | dog |
| 3. | ཁྱེད་རང་། | you |
| 4. | ཕྱུ་པ། | Tibetan dress |
| 5. | ཕྱི་ལོགས། | outside |
| 6. | བྱ་ཤ། | chicken (meat) |
| 7. | ལས་ཀ་བྱེད། | to do work |
| 8. | རོགས་པ་བྱེད། | to help |
| 9. | ཁྱི་ཉར་མ་མྱོང་། | haven’t got experience of keeping a dog. |
The Thirteen Consonants with Subscript Letter ར། Ra
Practice the pronunciation of the following subscript letter ya with the help of the audio file provided.
Follow the step by step spelling order of the letters.
Listen to the audio to hear how each word is pronounced.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཀྲུང་གོ། | People’s Republic of China |
| 2. | ཉལ་ཁྲི། | bed |
| 3, | གྲང་མོ། | cold |
| 4. | དྲི་བ། | question |
| 5. | དྲུག | six |
| 6. | ཕྲེང་ང་། | rosary |
| 7. | ཕོ་བྲང་། | palace |
| 8. | ཆབ་སྲིད། | politics |
| 9. | ཧྲང་ཧེ། | Shanghai |
The Six Consonants with Subscript Letter ལ། La
Practice the pronunciation of the following subscript letter La with the help of the audio file provided.
Follow the step by step spelling order of the letters.
Listen to the audio to hear how each word is pronounced.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཀློག་ | to read |
| 2. | ཀླད་པ། | brain |
| 3. | གློག་ཀླད། | computer, 电脑 |
| 4. | བླ་མ། | Lama |
| 5. | རླུང་། | wind, air |
| 6. | སློབ་ཕྲུག་ | pupils, students |
| 7. | ལས་སླ་པོ། | easy |
| 8. | ཟླ་བ། | moon, moth |
The Sixteen Consonants with the Subscript Letter ཝ། Wa
Practice the pronunciation of the following subscript letter La with the help of the audio file provided.
Follow the step by step spelling order of the letters.
Listen to the audio to hear how each word is pronounced.
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཉྭ་རིལ། | calf |
| 2. | དྭ་ཕྲུག | orphan |
| 3. | ལ་དྭགས། | Ladakh |
| 4. | ཚྭ། | salt |
| 5. | ཞྭ་མོ། | hat |
| 6. | རྭ་ཅོ། | horn |
| 7. | ཤྭ་བ། | deer |
| 8. | སློབ་གྲྭ། | school |
| 9. | ཧྭ་ཤང་། | Monk (和尚) |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Speaking
| Number | Tibetan | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | ཞབས་ཀྱུ། | The Second Tibetan Vowel “Zhabkyu“ |
| 2. | ཁྱི། | dog |
| 3. | ཁྱེད་རང་། | you |
| 4. | ཕྱུ་པ། | Tibetan dress |
| 5. | ཕྱི་ལོགས། | outside |
| 6. | བྱ་ཤ། | chicken (meat) |
| 7. | ལས་ཀ་བྱེད། | to do work |
| 8. | རོགས་པ་བྱེད། | to help |
| 9. | ཁྱི་ཉར་མ་མྱོང་། | haven’t got experience of keeping a dog. |
| 10. | ཀློག་ | to read |
| 11. | ཀླད་པ། | brain |
| 12. | གློག་ཀླད། | computer, 电脑 |
| 13. | བླ་མ། | Lama |
| 14. | རླུང་། | wind, air |
| 15. | སློབ་ཕྲུག་ | pupils, students |
| 16. | ལས་སླ་པོ། | easy |
| 17. | ཟླ་བ། | moon, moth |
| 18. | ཉྭ་རིལ་ | calf |
| 19. | དྭ་ཕྲུག་ | orphan |
| 20. | ལ་དྭགས། | Ladakh |
| 21. | ཚྭ། | salt |
| 22. | ཞྭ་མོ། | hat |
| 23. | རྭ་ཅོ། | horn |
| 24. | ཤྭ་བ། | deer |
| 25. | སློབ་གྲྭ། | school |
| 26. | ཧྭ་ཤང་། | Monk (和尚) |