Looking for practical Dzongkha to Xhosa phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Dzongkha phrase first, then the Xhosa translation (Xhosa) — 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 Xhosa.
Tip: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Xhosa-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་
Molo(Kuzuzangpo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་
Enkosi(Thukje che)
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་
Ubusuku obuhle(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Ubusuku obuhle(Gongmor)
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་
Ubusuku obuhle(Gongmor)
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་
Lala ngoxolo(Nyeinlhak)
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་
Ndiza kubonana kamva(De tar lhod)
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Hamba kakuhle(Zheyde)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་
Ngubani igama lakho?(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་
Igama lam nguJohn(Ngei ming yin John)
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་
Unjani?(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་
Kuhle ukukwazi(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།
Uthetha isiNgesi?(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།
Andithethi isiHindi kakuhle(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།
Andiqondi(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།
Nceda thethe kancinci(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།
Ungakuphinda lokho?(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)