Looking for practical Acholi to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Acholi phrase first, then the Dzongkha translation (Dzongkha) — so you can scan quickly before a trip, class, or video call.
The phrases are grouped into eight topics: greetings and pleasantries, useful phrases for travellers, everyday conversation, directions and getting around, shopping and dining, emergencies and health, work and business, and time, days and numbers. Use the table of contents to jump straight to greetings, directions, dining, emergencies, or numbers. You do not need perfect grammar to start — short, clear sentences often work better than silence when you are learning Dzongkha.
Tip: read the Dzongkha line out loud three times, then cover the Acholi side and try to recall the meaning — repetition builds memory faster than silent reading.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Ayo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Naki
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bok moti
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bok nongo
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bok obedo
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bok ngat
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tye kany
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Itye
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Iti ma ineno?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ineno John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Iti ma inyo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Gat ma inyo
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Khyedrang dang zheyde)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
Itye konyo English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Nye konyo Hindi kanyim.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Nye neno.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Nye konyo tye kanyim.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Itye konyo tye kanyim?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Iti kanyim ngat?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)