Looking for practical Amharic (አማርኛ) to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Amharic 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 Amharic 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.
ሰላም
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
እናመሰግናለን
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
ደህና መልካም ጡዋት
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
ደህና መልካም ከረባ
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
ደህና መልካም እለት
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
ደህና ምሽት
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
በኋላ እንገናኝ
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
ደህና ሁን
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
ስምህ ምንድነው?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ስሜ ጆን ነው
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
እንዴት ነህ/ነሽ?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
እንኳን ወደ ተገናኝነት ደስ ይበልህ/በልሽ
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.
እንግሊዝኛ ትናገራለህ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
ሂንዲ ደህና አልናገርም
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
አልተረዳኩም
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
እባኮት በቀስታ ተናገሩ
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
እባኮት ደግሞ ይናገሩ
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
የመዋዕል ቤት የት ነው?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)