Looking for practical Javanese to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Javanese 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 Javanese 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.
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Matur nuwun
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Selamat pagi
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Selamat siang
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Selamat sore
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Selamat dalu
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Sampai ketemu
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Selamat tinggal
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Sapa jenengmu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Jenengku John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kepiye kabarmu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Seneng ketemu sampeyan
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.
Apa sampeyan bisa ngomong Inggris?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Aku ora bisa ngomong Hindi kanthi apik
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Aku ora ngerti
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mangga ngomong alon-alon
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Bisa ngomong maneh?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Endi kamar mandi?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)