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ངLv.1

nga

I, me

pronoun
སློབ་གྲྭLv.2

lobdra

school

noun
འགྲོLv.1

dro

go

verb
ཉིན་མོLv.1

nyinmo

day, daytime

noun
ཡོངLv.1

yong

come

verb
མཚན་མོLv.1

tshenmo

night

noun
ཁྱེད་རང་Lv.1

khyed rang

you (polite)

pronoun
དགེ་རྒནLv.2

gegen

teacher

noun
དྲོད་པོLv.1

dröpo

warm

adjective
ཟLv.1

za

eat

verb
སློབ་མLv.1

lobma

student

noun
ཁོང་Lv.1

khong

he, she, they

pronoun
འཐུངLv.1

thung

drink

verb
གྲང་མོLv.1

drangmo

cold

adjective
བདེ་མོLv.1

demo

well, comfortable

adjective
དེབ་ཐེརLv.2

debther

textbook

noun
བཤདLv.1

shet

say, speak

verb
དཔྱིད་ཀLv.2

chika

spring

noun
བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེLv.2

kadrin che

thank you

phrase
ཡི་གེLv.1

yige

letter, writing

noun
དབྱར་ཀLv.1

yarka

summer

noun
དགའ་པོLv.1

gapo

happy, glad

adjective
ལགསLv.1

lak

yes, honorific particle

particle
བྱེདLv.1

je

do, make

verb
སྟོན་ཀLv.2

tönka

autumn

noun
མིནLv.1

min

no, not

particle
སྐྱིད་པོLv.1

kyipo

joyful, pleasant

adjective
སྦྱོངLv.1

jong

study, learn

verb
སྡུག་པོLv.2

dukpo

sad, sorrowful

adjective
དགུན་ཀLv.1

günka

winter

noun
རེདLv.1

re

is, are (factual)

verb
ཉལLv.1

nyal

sleep, lie down

verb
ལངLv.1

lang

get up, rise

verb
ཡིནLv.1

yin

is, am (personal)

verb
ཁང་པLv.1

khangpa

house, building

noun
ཚ་པོLv.1

tshapo

hot

adjective
ཡོདLv.1

yö

have, there is

verb
སྤྲིན་པLv.2

trinpa

cloud

noun
སྡོདLv.1

dö

stay, sit, live

verb
སྒོLv.1

go

door

noun
ལྟLv.1

ta

look, watch

verb
ཇLv.1

ja

tea

noun
སེར་ཁLv.2

serkha

hail

noun
གློག་ཀླདLv.2

lokle

computer

noun
འཇའLv.2

ja

rainbow

noun
ཉོLv.1

nyo

buy

verb
ཊི་ཝིLv.1

tiwi

television

noun
ཚྭLv.1

tsha

salt

noun
གྱོན་ཆསLv.2

gyönche

clothing

noun
མརLv.1

mar

butter

noun
རིག་གནསLv.3

rikne

culture

noun
འཚོངLv.1

tsong

sell

verb
སྟོད་ཐུང་Lv.2

töthung

shirt, upper garment

noun
ལོ་རྒྱུསLv.3

logyü

history

noun
འབྲསLv.1

dre

rice

noun
འཚོLv.2

tso

herd, raise (animals)

verb
ཉནLv.1

nyen

listen

verb
སྨད་གྱོནLv.2

megyön

pants, trousers

noun
སྤྱི་ཚོགསLv.4

chitsok

society

noun
ཞོLv.1

zho

yogurt

noun
ཤLv.1

sha

meat

noun
རིང་ལུགསLv.4

ringluk

ideology, -ism

noun
ལྷམLv.1

lham

shoes

noun
ཤེསLv.1

she

know, understand

verb
འབྲིLv.1

dri

write

verb
ཞྭ་མོLv.1

zhamo

hat

noun
དཔལ་འབྱོརLv.3

peljor

economy

noun
རྩམ་པLv.1

tsampa

tsampa (roasted barley flour)

noun
ལག་ཤུབསLv.2

lakshub

gloves

noun
ཤེས་ཡོནLv.3

sheyön

knowledge, education

noun
ཆངLv.2

chang

barley wine, chang

noun
ཀློགLv.1

lok

read

verb
ཚན་རིགLv.3

tsenrik

science

noun
ཐུག་པLv.2

thukpa

noodle soup, thukpa

noun
ཕྲུ་གུLv.2

phrugu

Tibetan robe (chuba)

noun
རྒྱུགLv.2

gyuk

run

verb
རསLv.2

re

fabric, cloth

noun
སློབ་གསོLv.3

lobso

education (system)

noun
འཕུརLv.2

phur

fly

verb
འོ་མLv.1

oma

milk

noun
ཨ་མLv.1

ama

mother

noun
ཤརLv.1

shar

east

noun
སེམས་ཁྲལLv.3

semthel

anxiety, worry

noun
བཙོLv.2

tso

cook, boil

verb
འཁྲུLv.1

thru

wash

verb
ཨ་ཕLv.1

apha

father

noun
བརྩེ་བLv.3

tsewa

love, compassion

noun
ནུབLv.1

nub

west

noun
ལྷོLv.1

lho

south

noun
སྲིད་གཞུངLv.3

sizhung

government

noun
གྱོནLv.1

gyön

wear, put on

verb
བུLv.1

bu

son, boy

noun
བྱངLv.1

jang

north

noun
བུ་མོLv.1

bumo

daughter, girl

noun
སྤྲདLv.2

tre

give, hand over

verb
མི་དམངསLv.3

mimang

the people, citizens

noun
ལེནLv.1

len

take, receive

verb
རྒྱལ་ཁབLv.2

gyalkhab

nation, country

noun
གཡསLv.1

ye

right

noun
སྤུན་ཟླLv.2

pundak

sibling, relative

noun
འཐེནLv.2

then

pull, drag

verb
གཡོནLv.1

yön

left

noun
ཨ་མྱེསLv.2

amye

grandfather

noun
ཐོབ་ཐང་Lv.4

thobthang

rights, entitlement

noun
ཁྲོམ་རLv.2

thromra

market, street

noun
རྩོམ་རིགLv.5

tsomrik

literature

noun
བཞགLv.2

zhak

put, place

verb
ཨ་ཕྱིLv.2

achi

grandmother

noun
གཅིགLv.1

chik

one

number
གཅོདLv.2

chö

cut

verb
སྙན་ངགLv.5

nyenngak

poetry

noun
སྒོ་ཁངLv.2

gokhang

shop, store

noun
དྲོད་ཁངLv.2

drökhang

hotel, guesthouse

noun
གཏམ་དཔེLv.5

tampe

proverb, saying

noun
ལྡེབསLv.2

deb

fold, turn (page)

verb
གཉིསLv.1

nyi

two

number
ལྟ་གྲུབLv.5

tadub

viewpoint, philosophy

noun
རྩེདLv.2

tse

play

verb
ཟ་ཁངLv.2

sakhang

restaurant

noun
གསུམLv.1

sum

three

number
བཞིLv.1

zhi

four

number
དོན་སྙིང་Lv.5

dönnying

essence, meaning

noun
བོད་ཡུལLv.2

böyül

Tibet

noun
ཞོནLv.2

zhön

ride

verb
འཁྱོལLv.2

khyöl

carry, transport

verb
གྲོང་ཁྱེརLv.3

drongkhyer

city

noun
རྣམ་གཞགLv.6

namzhak

structure, system

noun
ལྔLv.1

nga

five

number
གཏོངLv.1

tong

send, let go

verb
ལྷ་ཆོསLv.5

lhachö

Buddhism, religion

noun
དྲུགLv.1

dhuk

six

number
གྲོང་གསེབLv.2

drongseb

village, countryside

noun
དགོན་པLv.4

gönpa

monastery

noun
འགྲུལLv.2

drül

travel, walk

verb
བདུནLv.1

dün

seven

number
གླུLv.1

lu

song, singing

noun
བརྒྱདLv.1

gye

eight

number
འགྲོགསLv.2

drok

accompany, go with

verb
ཞབས་བྲོLv.2

zhabdro

dance

noun
ཐང་ཀLv.4

thangka

thangka painting

noun
དགུLv.1

gu

nine

number
བྱམས་པLv.4

jampa

loving-kindness

noun
རྩེད་མོLv.1

tsemo

game, play

noun
བསམLv.1

sam

think

verb
འདོདLv.1

dö

want, desire

verb
སྙིང་རྗེLv.4

nyingje

compassion

noun
འཕྲུལ་ཆསLv.2

thrülche

machine, device

noun
བཅུLv.1

chu

ten

number
དཀར་པོLv.1

karpo

white

adjective
བཟོLv.1

zo

make, build

verb
པརLv.1

par

photo, picture

noun
ནག་པོLv.1

nakpo

black

adjective
རྐང་རྩེདLv.2

kangtse

soccer, football

noun
འཚལLv.2

tsel

search, look for

verb
དེབLv.1

deb

book

noun
དམར་པོLv.1

marpo

red

adjective
སློབLv.1

lob

teach; learn

verb
སྔོན་པོLv.1

ngönpo

blue

adjective
ཀློགLv.1

lok

to read

verb
འབོདLv.1

wö

call, shout

verb
སེར་པོLv.1

serpo

yellow

adjective
འགྱུརLv.2

gyur

change, become

verb
འབྲིLv.2

dri

to write

verb
སྦྱངLv.2

jang

to practice, to learn

verb
ཞུLv.1

zhu

request, ask (polite)

verb
ལྗང་ཁུLv.2

jangku

green

adjective
སྨནLv.1

men

medicine

noun
བྱིནLv.1

jin

give (honorific)

verb
རིLv.1

ri

mountain

noun
སྨན་པLv.1

menpa

doctor

noun
འབབLv.1

bab

fall, descend

verb
ཆུLv.1

chu

water

noun
མེLv.1

me

fire

noun
ཤརLv.1

shar

rise (sun), appear

verb
ན་ཚLv.1

natsha

illness, sickness

noun
འཇིབསLv.2

jib

suck, absorb

verb
ནམ་མཁའLv.2

namkha

sky

noun
ཁྲགLv.2

thrak

blood

noun
འགསLv.2

ge

split, crack

verb
རྐངLv.2

kang

leg, foot

noun
ཉི་མLv.1

nyima

sun

noun
ཟླ་བLv.1

dawa

moon, month

noun
གསོLv.2

so

nourish, raise

verb
རྒྱབLv.2

gyab

back

noun
སོLv.1

so

tooth

noun
རླུངLv.1

lung

wind

noun
ཆུང་ངུLv.1

chungngu

small

adj
སLv.1

sa

earth, land

noun
བདེ་ཐངLv.2

dethang

health, well-being

noun
ཐུང་ངུLv.1

thungngu

short

adj
ཆར་པLv.2

charpa

rain

noun
ཡག་པོLv.1

yakpo

good

adj
ཁ་པརLv.1

khapar

telephone

noun
འགུལ་བརྙནLv.2

gülnyen

video, film

noun
གངསLv.2

kang

snow

noun
ངན་པLv.2

ngenpa

bad, poor

adj
གློགLv.1

lok

electricity

noun
མགོLv.1

go

head

noun
ཚ་པོLv.1

tsapo

hot

adj
གྲང་ངུLv.1

trangngu

cold

adj
དྲ་བLv.2

drawa

internet, web

noun
མིགLv.1

mik

eye

noun
སྣLv.1

na

nose

noun
བརྙན་འཕྲིནLv.3

nyenthrin

television broadcast

noun
དལ་པོLv.2

delpo

slow

adj
སྐྱིད་པོLv.1

kyidpo

happy, comfortable

adj
བཟའLv.1

sa

to eat

verb
ཁLv.1

kha

mouth

noun
སྡུག་པོLv.2

dukpo

sad, poor

adj
ལག་པLv.1

lakpa

hand

noun
འཐུངLv.1

thung

to drink

verb
ལྕི་པོLv.2

chipo

heavy

adj
འགྲོLv.1

dro

to go

verb
རྐང་པLv.1

kangpa

foot, leg

noun
སེམསLv.2

sem

mind, heart

noun
ཡང་པོLv.2

yangpo

light (weight)

adj
ཡོངLv.1

yong

to come

verb
རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོLv.2

gyachenpo

wide, broad

adj
རྣ་བLv.2

nawa

ear

noun
ལྟLv.1

ta

to look, to watch

verb
དེ་རིང་Lv.1

dering

today

adverb
ཉོLv.1

nyo

to buy

verb
དོག་པོLv.2

dokpo

narrow

adj
འཚོངLv.2

tsong

to sell

verb
སང་ཉིནLv.1

sangnyin

tomorrow

adverb
དཀར་པོLv.1

karpo

white

adj
ནག་པོLv.1

nakpo

black

adj
ཉལLv.1

nyal

to sleep, to lie down

verb
ཁ་སLv.1

khasa

yesterday

adverb
དམར་པོLv.1

marpo

red

adj
དུས་ཚོདLv.2

dütshö

time

noun
བཤདLv.1

she

to say, to speak

verb
ལབLv.1

lab

to speak, to tell

verb
དགོང་མོLv.2

gongmo

evening

noun
སྔོན་པོLv.1

ngönpo

blue

adj
ལངསLv.1

lang

to rise, to stand up

verb
ད་ལྟLv.1

danta

now

adverb
ལྗང་ཁུLv.2

jangku

green

adj
རྟLv.1

ta

horse

noun
བསྡདLv.2

de

to sit, to stay

verb
བཟང་པོLv.1

zangpo

good, excellent

adj
སློབ་གྲྭLv.1

lobdra

school

noun
གླང་Lv.1

lang

ox, cattle

noun
རྒྱུགLv.1

gyuk

to run

verb
བྱེདLv.1

je

to do, to make

verb
རྩྭ་ཐངLv.1

tsathang

grassland, pasture

noun
ལུགLv.1

luk

sheep

noun
ཁྱིLv.1

khyi

dog

noun
དགོན་པLv.1

gompa

monastery

noun
ཤེསLv.1

she

to know

verb
ཞི་མིLv.2

zhimi

cat

noun
གཏོངLv.2

tong

to send, to give

verb
འབྲོག་པLv.1

drokpa

nomad, herder

noun
ཆེན་པོLv.1

chenpo

big, great

adjective
རྨོང་Lv.2

mong

yak (female)

noun
ཟི་ལིངLv.1

Xiling

Xining (Amdo capital)

noun
ཆུང་ཆུངLv.1

chungchung

small

adjective
བླ་བྲངLv.1

Labrang

Labrang (Xiahe)

noun
གཡགLv.1

yak

yak (male)

noun
བྱLv.1

ja

bird

noun
རིང་པོLv.1

ringpo

long

adjective
རྨ་ཆུLv.1

Machu

Yellow River (Maqu)

noun
ཐུང་ཐུངLv.1

thungthung

short

adjective
རླངས་འཁོརLv.2

langkhor

car

noun
མཚོ་སྔོན་པོLv.1

Tso Ngönpo

Qinghai Lake

noun
མཐོ་པོLv.1

thopo

high, tall

adjective
གནམ་གྲུLv.2

namdru

airplane

noun
རྟ་རྒྱུགLv.2

tagyuk

horse race

noun
དམའ་པོLv.1

mapo

low

adjective
ཆུ་བོLv.1

chuwo

river

noun
ལམLv.1

lam

road, path

noun
ཞམ་པLv.2

zhampa

bridge

noun
གསར་པLv.1

sarpa

new

adjective
རི་རྒྱུདLv.1

rigyü

mountain range

noun
རྨོངLv.2

mong

yak (female, Amdo term)

noun
རྙིང་པLv.1

nyingpa

old (object)

adjective
སྤྱང་ཀིLv.1

changki

wolf

noun
ཞིམ་པོLv.1

zhimpo

delicious

adjective
མཛེས་པོLv.2

dzepo

beautiful

adjective
དཀའ་པོLv.2

kapo

difficult

adjective
སྟབས་བདེLv.2

tabde

easy, convenient

adjective
དྲགས་པLv.2

dhrakpa

expensive, serious

adjective
མགྱོགས་པོLv.1

gyokpo

fast, quick

adjective