ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མིང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཟེར་གྱི་ཡོད
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Tibetan phrasebook
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Phrase[edit]
| Plain | ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མིང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཟེར་གྱི་ཡོད (khyod kyi ming la ga re zer gyi yod) |
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| Honorific | ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ལ་ག་རེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད (khyed rang gi mtshan la ga re zhu gi yod) |
ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མིང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཟེར་གྱི་ཡོད། • (khyod kyi ming la ga re zer gyi yod)
- what is your name? (non-honorific)
Usage notes[edit]
- Only used when addressing people with whom the speaker is very familiar, children, animals, or other people when the speaker wishes to make a point of the addressee’s lower status.
- Could be considered rude in some circumstances—use of the honorific is standard when addressing most people.