ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མིང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཟེར་གྱི་ཡོད

Tibetan

Tibetan phrasebook

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“what is your name”
Plain	ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མིང་ལ་ག་རེ་ཟེར་གྱི་ཡོད (khyod kyi ming la ga re zer gyi yod)
Honorific	ཁྱེད་རང་གི་མཚན་ལ་ག་རེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད (khyed rang gi mtshan la ga re zhu gi yod)

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.