Looking for practical Chuukese to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Chuukese 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 Chuukese 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.
Mwar a ngeni
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Kinisou
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mwar a pwe
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mwar a pwe fiti
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mwar a pwe nien
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mwar a pwe en
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Chok ngeni
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Soun
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nukuchuk a ngeni?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
A ngeni John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Nukuchuk a ngeni?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Kinisou a ngeni
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.
Mwe pwe esei English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ngeni pwe esei Hindi mehn.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ngeni pwe fenen.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Pwe esei mehn.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Mwe pwe esei an?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Where pwe an bathroom?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)