Language/Tibetan/Grammar/Give-your-Opinion
Hi Tibetan learners! 😊
In this lesson, we will learn how to give your opinion in Tibetan. Giving your opinion is an important part of communication, as it allows you to express your thoughts and ideas to others.
With the completion of this lesson, consider investigating these related pages: Pronouns & Gender.
Expressing Likes and Dislikes[edit | edit source]
To express your likes and dislikes in Tibetan, you can use the verb "ཚབ་བསྐྱོད་" (tsab kyo). This verb can be used to express whether you like or dislike something. Here is an example dialogue:
- Person 1: གཏོམ་རྒྱལ་གསལ་བའི་མཁྲིས་རྗེ་བཙུགས། (Tôm gyäl salwé khri jé tsuk)
- Person 2: ཁྱོད་རའི་བླ་མ་ལ་ཚན་བྱེད། (Kyö rai la ma tsen jé)
- Person 1: ཁ་བྱེད་མེད། (Kha jé me)
Person 1 asks person 2 if they like the tea, and person 2 responds that they like it. Person 1 also likes the tea, so they express that by saying "ཁ་བྱེད་མེད།" (kha jé me). This can be translated to "I also like it". Here is a table that shows how to use "ཚབ་བསྐྱོད་" (tsab kyo) in various sentences:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ཁ་བྱེད་མེད། | Kha jé me | I also like it |
| རང་འདྲ་ཏེ་ལས་ཚབ་བསྐྱོད་མི་བྱེད་དོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཕྱིར་འབྲི་པ་སྟེ། | Rang dré té la tsab kyo mi jé don shi ndu chir dri pa te | I don't like spicy food because it's too hot. |
| གཡོད་པ་གཞན་ནས་ཁ་ཚོས་ཅིང་། | Yöpa shyen né kha tso tsing | The more I eat, the more I like it. |
You can also use the following words to express likes and dislikes:
- ཡིད་བཞིན་ (yi shi) - like - དུས་བཞིན་ (du shi) - dislike
Here is an example:
- Person 1: ཉི་མ་དེ་སྐྱེ་རེངས་རྫོགས་པར་འཕྲོད་བཤདགས། (Nyima dé kyé reng dzok par tro shek)
- Person 2: ཉི་མ་དེ་མི་ཚུགས་ཡུམ་པར་འགྲུབ་དགོས་པོས། (Nyima dé mi tsug yüm par grüb gos po)
- Person 1: ཡིད་བཞིན་དུ་རིང་བྱུང་ནས་ཁྱེད་ཆོག་གཏོང་། (Yi shi du ring jung né kyé chok tong)
Person 1 comments that they really like the painting, and person 2 agrees with them. Person 1 then says "ཡིད་བཞིན་དུ་" (yi shi du) to emphasize their like.
Giving Your Opinion[edit | edit source]
To give your opinion in Tibetan, you can use the phrase "ངོ་བོ་དང་པོ་རེ་རྩོམ་གཏོང་།" (ngo wo dang po re tsom tong). This phrase translates to "In my opinion". Here is an example:
- Person 1: བླ་མའི་ཁྱོད་རའི་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་པ་ན་འདྲ་རྫུ་གཉིས་པོ་རྗེ་བྱག་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན་པ་དང་བོད་རང་བཞིན་ཡོད་པའི་པདྨ་དུ་མི་འགོག་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལ་མེད་ཀྱི་དབྱེ་བ་དོ་དང་། (La ma'i kyö rai phyok kyi tsok pa na drö zhu nyi po jé yak po yin pa dang Bod rang shi yi mé gyok pa dom du mi gok pa rdo rje la me kyi jé wa do dang)
Person 1 talks about an article concerning the development of education in Tibet, and then gives their opinion.
You can also use the following words to give your opinion:
- ངོ་མོ་ (ngo mo) - to me
- ངོ་བོ་དང་པོ་ (ngo wo dang po) - in my opinion
Here is a table that shows how to use the above words to give your opinion:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ཁོང་དུ་ངོ་བོ་ཆེ་ལས་འདྲ་བས་གནང་། | Khong du ngo wo che la dré wa nang | In my opinion, it's difficult. |
| ངོ་མོ་རེད་གསར་བྱ་བ་དང་མ་འབྲི་རྒྱུ་རེད། | Ngo mo ré sar jya ba dang ma dri gyu ré | To me, honesty is very important. |
| ངོ་བོ་དང་པོ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་གཏོང་། | Ngo wo dang po scho tsok tong | In my opinion, it's beautiful. |
Use these phrases to express your opinions in Tibetan! 🤗
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
In this lesson, we learned how to express likes and dislikes and how to give our opinions in Tibetan. You can use these phrases in various situations to express your thoughts and ideas. To improve your Tibetan Grammar, you can also use the Polyglot Club website. Find native speakers and ask them any questions!
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Excellent job on conquering this lesson! Consider delving into these related pages: Plurals & Adjectives.
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Views from Tibet. Studies on Tibetan Buddhist Logic, the Philosophy ...
- Standard Tibetan Grammar Volume II, The Application of Gender ...
- Modern Lhasa Tibetan grammar - Wikipedia