Looking for practical Oromo to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Oromo 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: pick five Dzongkha phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Akkam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Galatoomi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Baga nagaan dhufte
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Baga nagaan dhufte galgala
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Baga nagaan dhufte
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Baga halkan gaariidha
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Akkamitti si arguu
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nagaan buli
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Maqaan kee maali?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Maqaan koo John dha
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Akkam jirtu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Siin wal arguu bareedaa
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.
Inni Afaan Ingiliffaa dubbataa?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ani Afaan Hindiin gaariidhaan dubbachuu hin dandeenye.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ani hin hubadhu.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Maaf si'a dheeraa dubbadhu.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Itti deebi'ee ni jechuu dandeessaa?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Baatroomni eessa?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)