Phrases Flashcards

1
Q

སྐུ་དཀྱིལ་གསལ་དྭངས།

A

How are you?
lit “Is the mandala of your body crystal clear?”

སྐུ་= body

དཀྱིལ་ = abbrev for དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་, where it can mean either maṇḍala in the sense of a stylized maṇḍala or simply “disk”, “circle”.

གསལ་དྭངས=crystal-clear clear-ness, clearness which is clear because there is no sullying factor in it and in being so is crystal-clear. In this case it is a description of any situation that could become polluted but which has had all polluting factors removed from it; unsullied

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2
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བདེ་ཐག་ཆོད་

A

Very well indeed

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3
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ཡིན་ད་ཡིན་

A

of course, certainly

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4
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ད་ག་རང་

A

Really, absolutely

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5
Q

ག་ལེ་ཕེབས་

ག་ལེ་ཞུགས་

A

Goodbye! (to the one who is leaving)

Goodbye! (to the one who is staying)

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6
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བྱས་ན་

A

And so…

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7
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ང་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱིས།

A

I remember you.

Also used to say “I miss you.”

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8
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ང་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གིས།

ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གིས།

ཁྱེད་རང་ངས་དྲན་གིས།

A

I remember you.

“I” remember you.

You, I remember.

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9
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ཡིན་ད་མིན་

A

obviously

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10
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ཡིན་ཡིན།

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Yes, yes! with enthusiasm…

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11
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ཕྱག་ཕེབས་གནང་བྱུང་

A

welcome!

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12
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ག་རེ་ཡིན་ན་

ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས་
རྐང་པ་ན་གིས་ ག་རེ་ཡིན་ན།
ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས་རྡོ་གཞུས་པ།

A

why?

my leg hurts, why?
why stones throw?

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13
Q

ཨ་ནི་

དེ་ནས་

A

so, and then…

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14
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ཞེ་པོ་ཅིག་

ཐག་རིང་པོ་ཞེ་པོ་ཅིག་རེད།

A

very, extremely

far very it is.

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15
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གའི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་མ་རེད།

གའི་གནང་གི་མ་རེད།

A

You’re welcome.

literally, it doing not is, like de nada

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16
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དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཡིན།

A

Precisely!

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17
Q

འདི་འདྲ་

A

like this, similar to this

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18
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འདྲའ་མི་འདྲའ་

A

various, this and that, collection of (different) things

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19
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ཚེས་བཟང་དུས་བཟང་

A

auspicious day

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20
Q

གཡས་གཡོན་

A

to left and right, around

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21
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མཆོད་མཇལ་ལ་ཕེབས་

A

to go to temple

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22
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ཡང་ན་ འམ་

A

or

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23
Q

ཡང་སེ་

A

frequently, often

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24
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ཡིན་ད་ཡིན་

A

of course

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25
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ཡུན་རིང་པོ་

A

for a long time

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26
Q

ད་ག་རང་

དེ་ག་རང་

A

the very same

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27
Q

ད་ག་ དེ་ག་

A

just, the very

(as in “just the thing” or “the very thing”

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28
Q

V+ དགོས་ v+ ཆོག་ v+ ཡོང་

A

========== ALLOCENTRIC FUTURE ==========

  • speaker intents to do something for another person
  • only first person singular, volitional verbs
  • verb stem must be in past (why…?)
  • ཆོག is more formal
  • དགོས་ = need, have to
  • ཆོག་ = allowed to; It is used after a verb to indicate, “yes, all right
  • First person if included, must be ངས་ (not ང་)
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29
Q

ཁོང་ལ་ཞུས་ཆོག

A

Her-to speak for you (formal, official)

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30
Q

ཁ་ལག་བཟོས་དགོས།

A

Food make for you. (I will)

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31
Q

རྩམ་པ་ོཉོས་དགོས།

A

Tsampa buy for you.

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32
Q

དེབ་འདི་ཕུལ་ཆོག

A

book this give to you (I will)

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33
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ཡི་གེ་འདི་ལམ་སང་སྦྲག་ཁག་ལ་བླུག་དགོས།

A

letter this ??

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34
Q

ལམ་སང་འགྲོ་གི་ཡིན།

A

immediately leaving I will

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35
Q

ཚར་ཅི་མང་གིས་

A

“however many times”

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36
Q

ནམ་རྒྱན་

A

usually, regularly, normally

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37
Q

གསར་པ་གསར་རྐྱང་

A

completely new

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38
Q

ཚ་པོ་ཚ་རྐྱང་

A

entirely hot

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39
Q

དཀར་པོ་དཀར་རྐྱང་

A

totally white

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40
Q

ལྐུགས་པ་ལྐུགས་རྐྱང་

A

utterly stupid

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41
Q

གང་བྱུང་མང་བྱུང་

A

anyhow

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42
Q

ཐ་རེ་ཐོ་རེ་

A

piecemeal, scattered

43
Q

ཚ་གེ་ཚི་གེ་

A

nervous, shaky

44
Q

ཚབ་བེ་ཚུབ་བེ་

A

hastily

45
Q

ཛ་རེ་ཛོ་རེ་

A

messy

46
Q

ཁ་ས་ཁ་ཉིན་

A

recently, in recent days

47
Q

དཔེ་རང་རེད་

A

it is amazing

48
Q

+ རུ་འགྲོ་/རུ་ཕྱིན or རུ་བཏང་

ཆེན་པོ་ ཆེ་རུ་འགྲོ་/ཆེ་རུ་ཕྱིན་ ཆེ་རུ་བཏང་

A

======= making verbs from adjectives =======
* adj (short form) +

big to get bigger to make bigger
to have gotten bigger

49
Q

ཡག་པོ་ ཡག་རུ་འགྲོ་ ཡག་རུ་བཏང་

A

good to get better, to make better, improve (actively)

improve on its own

50
Q

ཚ་པོ་ ཚ་རུ་འགྲོ་ ཚ་རུ་བཏང་

A

hot to get hotter to make hotter

51
Q

ཡང་དག་པ་ ཡང་དག་རུ་འགྲོ་ ཡང་དག་རུ་བཏང་

A

perfect to get more perfect to make more perfect

52
Q

-རྒྱུ་ཡོད་མ་རེད་ རྒྱུ་མི་འདུག་ ——–

ཁྱེད་རང་སེམས་ཁྲལ་འདི་འདྲ་རྒྱུ་མ་འདུག
A
  • —- Present —–
  • “ought not to”
  • always negative
  • verb in present-futureYou worry like this should not
53
Q

འདི་འདྲས་ལབ་རྒྱུ་ཡོད་མ་རེད།

A

I forgot to translate this (oops!)

54
Q

ཤ་སྟག་

A

only, solely

55
Q

མ་ཟད་

A

furthermore, not only

56
Q

ཁྱད་པར་དུ་

A

especially

57
Q

སྣ་མིན་སྣ་ཚིོགས་

A

varied, of different kinds

58
Q

ནང་ནས་

A

among (family-from)

59
Q

ཤུལ་རིང་གར་

A

during

60
Q

ཡིན་དགོས་བྱུང་

A

of course

61
Q

གང་མགྱོགས་མགྱོགས་

A

as swiftly as possible

62
Q

གང་ཡག་ཡག་

A

as well as possible

63
Q

གང་མང་མང་

A

as many as possible

64
Q

གང་ཆེ་ཆེ་

A

as big as possible

65
Q

གང་གཟབ་གཟབ་

A

as careful as possible

66
Q

གང་ཡོད་ཡོད་

A

as much as possible

67
Q

གང་མེད་མེད་

A

as little as possible

68
Q

གང་ཐུབ་ཅི་ཐུབ་

A

as much as possible

69
Q

གང་བྱུང་མང་བྱུང་

A

some happened, many happened; haphazardly, without a plan

70
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གང་ལ་གང་འཚམས་

A

as appropriate

71
Q

འཁྲུག་པོ་

A

lively, animated

72
Q

ཤར་
ལྷོ་
ནུབ་
བྱང་

A

east
south
west
north

73
Q

ཤར་ཕྱོགས་
ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་
ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་
བྱང་ཕྱོགས་

A

eastern
southern
western
northern

74
Q

ཐད་ཀར་

A

straightforward, direct;

75
Q

ཕར་ཙམ་ད་གར་

A

just there

76
Q

ཤར་རྒྱག་

A

direct, straight

77
Q

ཡ་གིར་

A

up there

78
Q

མ་གིར་

A

down there

79
Q

བཞི་མདོ་ག་

A

crossroads

80
Q

ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས་
ག་རེ་ཡིན་ན་
ག་རེ་དོན་དག་ལ་

A

why

81
Q

སུས་ཀྱང་

A

སུས་ནའི་+V+

whoever?

82
Q

སུ་གང་+V(neg)

A

nobody

83
Q

སུ་ཡིན་ནའི་

A

someone, anyone

84
Q

ག་དུས་ནའི་

A

never གུ་དུས་+V+ནའི

85
Q

ག་ས་ག་ལ་

A

everywhere

86
Q

གང་ཡང་

A

what ever; never and always (see Illuminator for explanation)

87
Q

ཅི་ཡང་

A

which ever

88
Q

གང་དུ་ཡང་

A

whenever (not interrogative)

89
Q

གང་དུ་

A

whenever (interrogative)

90
Q

གང་རུང་

A

whichever one, whatever one, whoever

91
Q

གང་ཤེས་

A

What is or that which is known/aware of;

How should I know? (with a shrug of the shoulders)

92
Q

གང་ཡིན་ཀྱང་

A

whatever it is

93
Q

གང་ཡང་མེད་པ་

A

nothing (whatsoever); literally whatever-not

94
Q

གང་ཡིན་པ་ཡང་

A

whatever else it might be

95
Q

གང་འོག་

A

relative position (in a sequence)

96
Q

འཚམས་

A

that which is appropriate, fitting, suitable for the situation at hand

97
Q

སྐད་གནིས་པ་

A

translator ( voice two person) same as lotsawa

98
Q

ག་རེ་ཟེར་ན་

A

because (lit. why ask if)

if you ask why

99
Q

ག་དུས་རེད་ཟེར་ན་

A

if you ask when

when is ask if

100
Q

ག་དུས་བཙུགས་པ་རེད་ཟེར་ན།

A

if you ask when was it established…

101
Q

དེའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་ག་རེ་རེད་སེར་ན།

A

If you ask what was its goal

that of goal what is ask if

102
Q

ཁམས་འདྲི་བ།

A

“to ask about another’s health”;

103
Q

འཚམས་འདྲི་བ།

A

“to make small talk” (meaning on meeting someone initially to ask polite questions regarding whether they have good health and whether all is well—this small talk is regarded as very important in Tibetan culture and all meetings of people must start with it)-IL