Looking for practical Irish to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Irish 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: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Dzongkha-speaking trip in a few weeks.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Dia dhuit
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Go raibh maith agat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Dia dhuit ar maidin
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Dia dhuit ar an tráthnóna
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Dia dhuit ar an oíche
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Oíche mhaith
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Feicfidh mé tú níos déanaí
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Slán
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Cad is ainm duit?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
John is ainm dom
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Conas atá tú?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Tá áthas orm bualadh leat
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.
An labhraíonn tú Béarla?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ní labhraím Hindis go maith
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ní thuigim
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Léigh go mall, le do thoil
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
An féidir leat é sin a rá arís?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Cá bhfuil an seomra folctha?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)