Looking for practical Fulani to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Fulani 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.
Tip: pick five Dzongkha 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.
A jaraama
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
A jaraama
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Nde woɗi
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nde njahi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nde saare
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nde daɗi
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
A waawi
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Njaara
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Hol ko innde maa?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Innde am ko John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
No mbadi?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Mi yidi no feere ma
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.
A yiɗi wondi English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mi waawi Hindi ɗum jooɗi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mi waawi ɗum.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
A jaabi e jooɗi.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
A waawi ɓeydude ɗum?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Hol ko toilet?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)