4.2 Vocabulary ཚིག་གསར།
Listen to the audio and practice saying the vocabulary words.
| Number | Tibetan | Grammatical Category | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ང་ | Pronoun | I |
| 2. | ཡང་ | Adverb | also |
| 3. | ངའི་ | Pronoun (Possessive) | my |
| 4. | བོད་ | Proper Noun (Place) | Tibet |
| 5. | ཁྱེད་རང་ | Pronoun | you |
| 6. | ལྷ་ས་ | Proper Noun (Place) | Lhasa |
| 7. | ཁྱེད་རང་གི་ | Pronoun (Possessive) | your |
| 8. | ནས་ | Particle/Postposition | from |
| 9. | མིང་ | Noun | name |
| 10. | མཚན་ | Noun (Honorific) | name (h) |
| 11. | ཨ་ལས་རེད་པས། | Interjection/Question | Oh! Is that right? |
| 12. | བདེ་པོ་ | Adjective | well |
| 13. | ཡིན་པས། | Copula/Question | Are you? |
| 14. | འཇིགས་མེད་ | Proper Noun (Person) | Jigme |
| 15. | གཟུགས་པོ་ | Noun | body |
| 16. | སྐུ་གཟུགས་ | Noun (Honorific) | body (h) |
| 17. | རྗེས་ལ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། | Expression/Verb Phrase | See you later! |
| 18. | ག་ལེར་བཞུགས། | Expression/Imperative | Stay well! |
| 19. | ག་ལེར་ཕེབས། | Expression/Imperative | Go well! |
| 20. | ག་ནས་ | Interrogative Particle | From where? |
Challenge Yourself
Activity 1: Match the Words
Activity 2: Match the Words
Activity 3: Match the Expressions
Activity 4: Choose the Words
Can you choose the correct option and say the word in Tibetan?
Activity 5: Translate the Words
Can you say the following words in Tibetan? Try it on your own or pair up with someone!
| Number | English | Tibetan |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | you | |
| 2. | your | |
| 3. | name | |
| 4. | name (h) | |
| 5. | my | |
| 6. | I | |
| 7. | Tibet | |
| 8. | from | |
| 9. | also | |
| 10. | well | |
| 11. | Oh! Is that right? | |
| 12. | See you later! | |
| 13. | Stay well! | |
| 14. | Go well! | |
| 15. | From where? |
