Looking for practical Dzongkha to Mam phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Mam translation (Mam) — 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 Mam.
Tip: read the Mam line out loud three times, then cover the Dzongkha 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.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j(sho'j)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་
Tz'ik(tz'ik)
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j nax(sho'j nax)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j q'ij(sho'j q'ij)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j k'ux(sho'j k'ux)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j k'ux nax(sho'j k'ux nax)
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་
K'ux q'ij(k'ux q'ij)
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Xo'j k'ux(sho'j k'ux)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་
Ja' k'ux nax?(ha' k'ux nax?)
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་
Ja' k'ux nax John(ha' k'ux nax John)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་
Jach' k'ux?(hach' k'ux?)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Nab' k'ux(nab' k'ux)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།
¿K'ax k'utun English?(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
Nek'ux k'utun Hindi k'ax k'utun.(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
Nek'ux k'ax k'utun.(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Por favor, k'utun k'ux.(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
¿K'ax k'utun k'ux?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)