Looking for practical Dzongkha to Somali phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Somali translation (Somali) — 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 Somali.
Tip: read the Somali 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་
Salaan(Kuzuzangpo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་
Mahadsanid(Thukje che)
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་
Subax wanaagsan(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Duhur wanaagsan(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Habeen wanaagsan(Gongmor)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Habeen wanaagsan(Nyeinlhak)
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་
Ilaa dambe(De tar lhod)
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Nabad gelyo(Zheyde)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་
Magacaa maxay tahay?(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་
Magacaygu waa John(Ngei ming yin John)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་
Sidee tahay?(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Aad ayaan ugu faraxsanahay in aan ku arko(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།
Ma ku hadashaa Ingiriisi?(Ma ku hadashaa Ingiriisi?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
Hindi si fiican uma hadlo(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
Ma fahmin(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Fadlan si tartiib ah u hadal(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
Ma ku celin kartaa?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།
Musqusha xaggee buu yaalaa?(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)