Looking for practical Samoan to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Samoan 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 Samoan 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.
Talofa
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Fa'amolemole
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Talofa i le taeao
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Talofa i le afiafi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Talofa i le po
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
O le po lelei
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Fa'afetai
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Tofa
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
O ai lou igoa?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
O lo'u igoa o John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
O a mai oe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
O le fiafia e feiloa'i ma oe
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.
E te tautala i le Igilisi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
E le mafai ona ou tautala i le Hindi lelei
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
E le mafai ona ou malamalama
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Fa'amolemole tautala i se fa'atekinolosi
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
E mafai ona e fa'atekinolosi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
O fea le umukuka?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)