ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང

Tibetan

Tibetan phrasebook

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Etymology

From ཐུགས་རྗེ (thugs rje, “compassion”) +‎ ཆེ (che, “great”) +‎ གནང (gnang, “to give, do; honorific imperative particle”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰuks.rd͡ʑe.t͡ɕʰe.gnaŋ/
• Lhasa: /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ.ʈ͡ʂʰe˥˥.naŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰuks.rd͡ʑe.t͡ɕʰe.gnaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tug^f-je-che^f-nang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ.ʈ͡ʂʰe˥˥.naŋ˥˥/

Interjection

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་གནང • (thugs rje che gnang)

1. thank you very much

Usage notes

The final honorific imperative particle གནང (gnang) gives this interjection a more honorific, stronger quality than simply ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ (thugs rje che), equivalent to thank you very much in English.

Alternative forms

• ཐུགས་རྗེ་གནང (thugs rje gnang) (abbreviated form)

Synonyms

• ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ (thugs rje che)