Looking for practical Maori to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Maori 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 Maori 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.
Kia ora
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ngā mihi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ata mārie
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Pō mārie
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Pō nui
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nō reira
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ka kite anō
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Haere rā
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ko wai tō ingoa?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ko John tōku ingoa
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kei te pēhea koe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
He pai ki te tūtaki i a koe
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.
Ka korero koe i te reo Ingarihi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Kaore au e korero pai i te reo Hīndi
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Kaore au e mohio
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Tena koa korero āta
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ka taea e koe te korero ano?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Kei hea te wharepaku?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)