Looking for practical Ilocano to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Ilocano 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.
Kumusta
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Agyamanak
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Naimbag a bigat
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naimbag a malem
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naimbag a rabii
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naimbag a rabii
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Kitaen tayon
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Pakada
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ania ti nagan mo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ti nagan ko ket John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kumusta ka?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Naragsakak nga makilala ka
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.
Agsasaoka ti English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Saanak a nasayaat ti agsasaon ti Hindi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Saanak a maawatan.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Maidawat, agsasaoka nga nalaka.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Mabalinmo kadi nga ibaga manen?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ayanna ti banyo?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)