Looking for practical Marshallese to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Marshallese 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: read the Dzongkha line out loud three times, then cover the Marshallese side and try to recall the meaning — repetition builds memory faster than silent reading.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Yokwe
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Komol tata
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Yokwe in the morning
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Yokwe in the afternoon
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Yokwe in the evening
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Yokwe in the night
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Aolep in
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Aolep
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ejjab in name?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ejjab in John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Iakwe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ejjab in an
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.
Ijo im jab in English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ej jab in Hindi bwe enaj
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ej jab in jorren
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Jab in jorren bwe enaj
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ejjab in jorren an?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ejjab in wōt ian?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)