Looking for practical Khmer to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Khmer 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 Khmer 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.
សួស្តី
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
អរគុណ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
សួស្តីព្រឹក
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
សួស្តីល្ងាច
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
សួស្តីល្ងាច
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
រាត្រីសួស្តី
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
ជួបគ្នាម្តងក្រោយ
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
លាហើយ
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
ឈ្មោះរបស់អ្នកគឺអ្វី?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
ឈ្មោះរបស់ខ្ញុំគឺJohn
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
រីករាយដែលបានជួបអ្នក
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.
តើអ្នកនិយាយភាសាអង់គ្លេសទេ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
ខ្ញុំមិននិយាយភាសាហិណ្ឌីបានល្អទេ
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
ខ្ញុំមិនយល់ទេ
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
សូមនិយាយយឺតៗ
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
តើអ្នកអាចនិយាយវាឡើងវិញទេ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
បន្ទប់ទឹកនៅឯណា?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)