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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

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