Looking for practical Ewe to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Ewe phrase first, then the Dzongkha translation (Dzongkha) — 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 Dzongkha.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Woezɔ
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Medɔ wo
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mɛkpɔ
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mɛkpɔ ɖe
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mɛkpɔ ɖeɖe
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mɛkpɔ ɖekakpɔ
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Nɔ ɖe
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nɔ agbe
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nɔ ɖe ɖe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Mawu ɖe John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Nɔ ɖe wò?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Mekɔ wò ɖe
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Khyedrang dang zheyde)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
Wòkpɔ̃ ŋlɔ̃ɖi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mèkpɔ Hindi aɖe o.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mènyɔ ŋu.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mèkpɔ ɖeɖe.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Wòkpɔ ɖe ƒe ŋkɔ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Esi wòle ɖe akɔ?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)