Looking for practical Malagasy to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Malagasy 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.
Salama
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Misaotra
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Salama maraina
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Salama tolakandro
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Salama hariva
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Alina tsara
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Hizara indray
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Veloma
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Inona no anaranao?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ny anarako dia John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Inona ny vaovao?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Faly mihaona aminao
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.
Miteny anglisy ve ianao?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Tsy mahay tsara Hindi aho
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Tsy azoko
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Azafady, miteny moramora
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Azonao averina ve izany?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Aiza ny trano fidiovana?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)