Looking for practical Norwegian to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Norwegian 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 Norwegian 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.
Hei
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Takk
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
God morgen
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
God ettermiddag
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
God kveld
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
God natt
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Sees senere
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ha det
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Hva heter du?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Jeg heter John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Hvordan har du det?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Hyggelig å møte deg
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.
Snakker du engelsk?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Jeg snakker ikke hindi godt.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Jeg forstår ikke.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Vennligst snakk sakte.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Kan du si det igjen?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Hvor er toalettet?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)