Looking for practical Dzongkha to Baoule phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Baoule translation (Baoule) — 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 Baoule.
Tip: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Baoule-speaking trip in a few weeks.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་
Akwaba(Kuzuzangpo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་
Medase(Thukje che)
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་
Mema wo akye(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Mema wo aha(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Mema wo dɔnhwere(Gongmor)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Mema wo anadwo(Nyeinlhak)
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་
Yɛbɛhyia bio(De tar lhod)
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Nante yie(Zheyde)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་
Wo din de sɛn?(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་
Me din de John(Ngei ming yin John)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་
Ɛyɛ sɛn?(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Ɛyɛ me dɛ sɛ mehyia wo(Khyedrang dang zheyde)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།
N'ka bô English?(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
M'ni bô Hindi kô.(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
M'ni kâ.(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Bê n'ka bô n'zi.(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
N'ka bô n'zi kô?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)