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Most Common Tibetan Words
བོད་སྐད།
Essential Tibetan vocabulary with pronunciation guides. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Nouns
| Word | English Meaning | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| མི | person | MI |
| བུད་མེད | woman | BU-med |
| བྱིས་པ | child | JI-pa |
| ཁང་པ | house | KHANG-pa |
| ཆུ | water | CHU |
| ཟས | food | ZAY |
| ས | earth / land | SA |
| རྒྱ་མཚོ | ocean / sea | GYA-tso |
| རི | mountain | RI |
| ནགས་ཚལ | forest | NAG-tshal |
| ཉི་མ | sun / day | NYI-ma |
| མཚན་མོ | night | TSEN-mo |
| ཉིན | day | NYIN |
| གཙང་མ | family / pure one | TSANG-ma |
| སྐད | language / voice | KAY |
| བྱམས་པ | love / kindness | JAM-pa |
| རོལ་མོ | music | ROL-mo |
| ཞི་བདེ | peace | SHI-de |
| སྙིང | heart | NYING |
| ལོ | year | LO |
Verbs
| Word | English Meaning | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| འགྲོ | to go | DRO |
| ཡོང | to come | YONG |
| ཟ | to eat | ZA |
| འཐུང | to drink | TUNG |
| གཉིད | to sleep | NYID |
| མཐོང | to see | TONG |
| ཐོས | to hear | TOY |
| ཀ་བཤད | to speak | KA-shed |
| ཡིན | to be (is) | YIN |
| བྱམས | to love | JAM |
| ལས་ཀ | to work | LAY-ka |
| སྤྲད | to give | TRAY |
| ལེན | to take | LEN |
| ལྟ | to look | TA |
| བསམ | to think | SAM |
| གོ | to understand | GO |
| ལང | to stand up | LANG |
| སྡོད | to sit / stay | DOY |
| རྒྱུག | to run | GYUG |
| རྩེད | to play | TSED |
Adjectives
| Word | English Meaning | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| ཆེ | big / great | CHE |
| ཆུང | small / young | CHUNG |
| བཟང | good | ZANG |
| ངན | bad | NGEN |
| གསར | new | SAR |
| རྙིང | old | NYING |
| དཀར | white | KAR |
| ནག | black | NAG |
| དམར | red | MAR |
| སྔོན | blue | NGON |
| རིང | long | RING |
| ཐུང | short | TUNG |
| ལྗིད | heavy | JID |
| ཡང | light / easy | YANG |
| མྱུར | fast | NYUR |
| དལ | slow | DAL |
| སྟོབས | strong | TOB |
| ཚ | hot | TSA |
| གྲང | cold | DRANG |
| མཛེས | beautiful | DZEY |
Adverbs
| Word | English Meaning | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| ད་ལྟ | now | DA-ta |
| ཁ་སང | yesterday | KHA-sang |
| སང་ཉིན | tomorrow | SANG-nyin |
| འདིར | here | DIR |
| ཕར | there / over there | PHAR |
| རེད | yes (is) | RED |
| མིན | no / is not | MIN |
| ཡང | also / again | YANG |
| འོན་ཀྱང | but / however | ON-kyang |
| དང | and / with | DANG |
| ཧ་ཅང | very / quite | HA-chang |
| ཅུང | a little | CHUNG |
| རྟག | always | TAK |
| ནམ་ཡང་མིན | never | NAM-yang MIN |
| ཡར་ཡར | often | YAR-yar |
| རེས་འགའ | sometimes | REY-nga |
| ཡིན་ཟིན | already | YIN-zin |
| ད་དུང | still / yet | DA-dung |
| དེའི་ཕྱིར | therefore / so | DEY-chir |
| ཡིན་ན་ཡང | perhaps / maybe | YIN-na-yang |