Looking for practical Kikongo to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Kikongo 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.
Mbote
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Mele
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mokolo mayele
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mokolo ya ntango
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mokolo ya mambu
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mokolo ya mpembe
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tala mosi
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Tata
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nki yina nzo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Nzo yami ke John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Oko wanga?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Nki ya mosi na yo
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.
Oyo o zola kutu English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Nkeni kutu Hindi na mosi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Nkeni kanga.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mokolo, zola kutu na mosi.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Oyo o zola kutu na mosi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Kutu wapi banzela?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)