Looking for practical Ga to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Ga 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: read the Dzongkha line out loud three times, then cover the Ga 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.
Oyiwa
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Medasi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Meda wo akye
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Meda wo aha
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Meda wo nkyɛn
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Meda wo da
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Yɛbɛhyia bio
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nante yie
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Wo din de sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Me din de John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ɛyɛn sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ɛyɛ me dɛ sɛ me ne wo bɔ nkɔmmɔ
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.
Wɔyɛ English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mɛnkɔ Hindi yie
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mɛnhu
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mepa wo kyɛw, kasa mmerɛ
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Bɛyɛ a, ka no bio?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ɛhe na ɛyɛ toilet?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)