Looking for practical Igbo to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Igbo 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: when a Dzongkha phrase looks unfamiliar, compare it with the Igbo wording — noticing word order differences helps you understand grammar naturally.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Ndewo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Daalụ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ụtụtụ ọma
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ehihie ọma
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mgbede ọma
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ka chi fo
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Hụ gị n'anya
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ka ọ dị
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Kedu aha gị?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Aha m bụ John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kedu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ọ dị m ụtọ ịmata gị
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.
Ị na-asụ Bekee?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Anaghị m asụ Hindi nke ọma
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Anaghị m aghọta
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Biko sụpụta nwayọọ
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ị nwere ike ikwu ya ọzọ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ebee ka ụlọ mposi dị?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)