Looking for practical Mizo to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Mizo 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 Mizo 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.
Khawngai
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ka lawm e
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Zawngkhu
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nikhua
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nikhua chhuak
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Chawnghnu
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Chhawnna
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Zawng
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
I hming a ni em?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ka hming a ni John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
I hmu a, em?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
I hming chhuak a, kan lo hmu
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.
I hmingthang English an sawi ang?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ka Hindi a sawi lo va
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ka hriat lo
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Chhiar a sawi ang
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
He hriat a, chhiar ang?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Bathroom a hian eng?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)