Looking for practical Sami North to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sami North 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: focus on one section per day (travel Monday, dining Tuesday, and so on) if you are preparing for a Dzongkha-speaking trip in a few weeks.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Bures
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Giitu
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Buorre eahket
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buorre beaivi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buorre iđit
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Buorre natti
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Bures boahtin
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ráhkisvuohta
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Mii du namma lea?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Mun namma lea John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Gii du lea?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Bures boahtin
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.
Don leat englalaš?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mun in lea hindi gohčodaga
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mun in boahtte
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Váldde čáhkkáldat
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Várra gohččat dán again?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Gii lea báhkkis?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)