Looking for practical Papiamento to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Papiamento 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.
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Dank'i
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bon dia
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bon tardi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bon nochi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bon nochi
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Hasta luego
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ayo
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Kiko ta bo nòmber?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Mi nòmber ta John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kon ta bai?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Dushi pa konosé bo
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.
Bo ta papia Ingles?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mi no ta papia Hindi bon
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mi no ta komprondé
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Por fabor, papia lentamente
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Podé bo duna e palabra otro vez?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Unda ta e baño?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)