Looking for practical Kituba to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Kituba 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.
Mbote
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Matondo
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mbote na ntanga
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na moke
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na nsuka
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Malamu na lola
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tala moke
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Kende malamu
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nani na yo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Nani na ngai John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Oyo olingi?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Nionso 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 azali koloba Lingala?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Nani nazali koloba Hindi malamu te
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Nani nazali koyeba te
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Soki, koloba na mbala moke
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Okoki koloba yango lisusu?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Bato ya mbala eza wapi?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)