Looking for practical Chamorro to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Chamorro 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 Chamorro 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.
Håfa adai
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Si Yu'os Ma'åse'
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Buenas Dias
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buenas Tarde
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buenas Noches
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buenas Noches
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Hasta luego
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Adios
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Håfa na'ån-mu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Guahu si John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Como estas?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Maliu hao
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.
Hu guaiya i Ingles?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ti hu guaiya i Hindi put klan
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ti hu maolek
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Sigu, hu guaiya put maolek
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Taimanu un maolek i esta?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Onde i banyo?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)