Looking for practical Sango to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sango 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.
Mbote
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Mokolo
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mbote na nganga
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na nganga ya zanga
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mbote na nganga ya sika
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ndeko na nganga
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tango na yo
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ayo
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Nani na yo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Nani na nga John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Oza malamu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Mokili na yo
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.
O yo na nganga English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
O na yo na nganga Hindi na mboka.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
O na yo na mboka.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Sokou, yo na nganga na mboka.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
O tanga na mboka?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Banga na yo na ndako?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)