Looking for practical Bemba to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Bemba 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: when a Dzongkha phrase looks unfamiliar, compare it with the Bemba wording — noticing word order differences helps you understand grammar naturally.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Shani
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Natotela
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Muli shani
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Muli shani
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Muli shani
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Shalenipo bwino
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tukakutana
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Twalumba
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Iwe ulishani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ndefwaya John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Uli bwanji?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Nashitasha kukumona
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.
Ulyashi ulukanda mu Chingereza?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ndefwaya ukulanda Hindi bwino
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ndefwaya kumfwa
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Nimwandi ulukanda buteko
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ningaloleleko?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ili kuti ikalamba?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)