Looking for practical Dzongkha to Twi phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Twi translation (Twi) — 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 Twi.
Tip: pick five Twi phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་
Akwabaa(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 adwo(Gongmor)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Da yie(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་
Wo ho te sɛn?(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Ɛyɛ me anigye 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།
Wopɛ sɛ woka Borɔfo?(Wo pe se wo ka Borɔfo?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
Mente Hindi pa(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
Mente ase(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Mepa wo kyɛw, kasa kakra(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
Wobɛtumi akasa bio?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)