Looking for practical Kanuri to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Kanuri 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 Kanuri 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.
Sannu
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Nagode
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ina kwana
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ina yamma
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ina dare
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Sai da safe
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Zan ganka
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Sai anjima
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Menene sunanka?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Sunana John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Lafiya lau?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Na ji dadin haduwa da kai
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.
Kuna magana da Turanci?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ba na magana da Hindi sosai.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ba na fahimta.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Don Allah, ku yi magana a hankali.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Za ku iya faɗin hakan sake?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ina wanka?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)