Looking for practical Krio to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Krio 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.
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Tenki
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Gud mɔnin
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Gud aftanun
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Gud ivnin
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Gud nait
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Si yu leta
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Bai
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Wetɛn na yu neym?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ma neym na John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ow yu de?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Naes fo mit yu
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.
Yu sabi English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
A no sabi Hindi well.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
A no sabi.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Plis, tok slow.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Yu fit tok dat again?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Weh na di toilet?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)