Looking for practical Dombe to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dombe 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 Dombe 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.
Salibonani
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ngiyabonga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Uhlanga oluhle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Lala kahle
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Siyaphinda
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Hamba kahle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ubani igama lakho?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Igama lami nguJohn
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Unjani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ngiyajabula ukukwazi
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.
Uta kuta chiRungu?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ndi ndakuta Hindi zvakanaka.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ndi ndinzwisise.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Ndapota kuta zvishoma.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ungazvitaura zvakare?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Chikamu chechimbuzi chiri kupi?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)