Looking for practical Dzongkha to Oromo phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Oromo translation (Oromo) — 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 Oromo.
Tip: when a Oromo phrase looks unfamiliar, compare it with the Dzongkha 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.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་
Akkam(Kuzuzangpo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་
Galatoomi(Thukje che)
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་
Baga nagaan dhufte(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Baga nagaan dhufte galgala(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Baga nagaan dhufte(Gongmor)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Baga halkan gaariidha(Nyeinlhak)
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་
Akkamitti si arguu(De tar lhod)
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Nagaan buli(Zheyde)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་
Maqaan kee maali?(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་
Maqaan koo John dha(Ngei ming yin John)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་
Akkam jirtu?(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Siin wal arguu bareedaa(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།
Inni Afaan Ingiliffaa dubbataa?(Inni Afaan Ingiliffaa dubbataa?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
Ani Afaan Hindiin gaariidhaan dubbachuu hin dandeenye.(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
Ani hin hubadhu.(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Maaf si'a dheeraa dubbadhu.(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
Itti deebi'ee ni jechuu dandeessaa?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)