Looking for practical Cebuano to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Cebuano 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 Cebuano 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.
Kumusta
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Salamat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Maayong buntag
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong hapon
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong gabii
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong pagkatulog
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Kita kits unya
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Babay
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Unsa imong ngalan?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ang akong ngalan kay John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kumusta ka?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Malipayong pagkakita nimo
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.
Nagsulti ka og Ingles?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Dili ko maayo mosulti og Hindi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Wala ko kasabot.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Palihug, istorya og hinay.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Pwede nimo isulti na usab?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Asa ang kasilyas?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)