ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུག
ngas khyed rang dran gyi 'dug
The English phrase "I miss you" is expressed in Tibetan as ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུག (ngas khyed rang dran gyi 'dug).
Meaning: I miss you (phrase)
What does it mean word for word?
The core of the phrase is the verb དྲན་, which carries the meaning of both "to remember" and "to miss".
Is there a formal and an informal way to say it?
You can adjust the level of intimacy by changing the object. While ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུག uses khyed rang, the phrase ངས་ཁྱོད་དྲན་གྱི་འདུག uses khyod to make the expression more informal and intimate.
How does it change in a sentence?
While ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུག is a common way to say this, you can also use ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་ཡོད། by replacing the ending 'dug with yod to more standardly express the continuous state of missing someone.
How do you pronounce it?
ngas khyed rang dran gyi 'dug
Did you know?
- The Tibetan word དྲན་ for 'miss' is used in Buddhist practices to describe the act of mindful recollection or maintaining a mental image of a deity.
- The concept of 'missing' someone in Tibetan is deeply tied to the concept of 'mindfulness' or 'attention' due to the shared root with 'remembering'.
- The ending འདུག indicates that the feeling of missing someone is a perceived fact or a current state the speaker is noticing about themselves.
Example conversation
Two friends are talking on the phone after a long time.
- ཚེ་རིང་། Tseringཆོས་སྒྲོན། ངས་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུགchos sgron, ngas khyed rang dran gyi dugChosgron, I miss you.
- ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Choesronཚེ་རིང་། ངས་ཀྱང་ཁྱེད་རང་དྲན་གྱི་འདུགtse ring, ngas kyang khyed rang dran gyi dugTsering, I miss you too.
- ཚེ་རིང་། Tseringང་ཚོ་ག་ལྟར་མཇལ་ནམ།nga tsho ga ltar mjal namWhen shall we meet?
- ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Choesronང་ཚོ་མ་འོངས་བུ་ལ།nga tsho ma ong bu laLet's meet next week.
