Looking for practical Lombard to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Lombard 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.
Ciao
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Grazie
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bun di
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bun pomeriggio
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bun sera
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bun nott
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
A dopo
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Addio
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Cömm a te ciama?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Me ciami John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Cömm a te stai?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Piacer de incontrarte
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.
Parlet inglèis?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mi no parlo ben l'hindi
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mi no capisco
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Per piaser, parla pian
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Pödet dì quela roba anmò?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Unde l'è 'l bagn?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)