Looking for practical Luo to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Luo 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.
Naki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Asante
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Naki chuo
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naki ng'ato
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naki owadgi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Naki buya
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ting' kendo
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Naki
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ine ng'ama in?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Inyalo John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Okwere?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Naki konyo
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.
Naki konyo English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Naki konyo Hindi mako.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Nyingi.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Tende konyo chalo.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Naki konyo to?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ith gi toilet?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)