Looking for practical Afar to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Afar 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: pick five Dzongkha phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Nagaad
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Galatooma
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bariis
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Galab
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Haal
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Haalka habeen
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ilaa mar kale
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nagaad
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Maa magacaa?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Magacaygu waa John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Iska waran?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Aad baan ku faraxsanahay
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.
Inni ingiriisi maahaa?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Hindi maahaa hinjiru
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ani hinfahmi
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Fadlan si maahaa siib
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Maahaa inna marra?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Maalin baadhu?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)