Looking for practical Lingala to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Lingala 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 Lingala 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.
Mbote
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Melesi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mbote na ntango ya mokolo
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na ntango ya midi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na ntango ya soir
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Malamu na butu
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tala yo nsima
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Kende malamu
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nkombo na yo nani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Nkombo na ngai ezali John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ozalaki malamu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Nayoki malamu 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.
Ozali koloba lingala?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Nasalaka hindi malamu te
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Nalingi te
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
S'il vous plaît, koloba butu
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 nzoto ezali wapi?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)