Looking for practical Scots Gaelic to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Scots Gaelic 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: read the Dzongkha line out loud three times, then cover the Scots Gaelic side and try to recall the meaning — repetition builds memory faster than silent reading.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Halò
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Tapadh leat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Madainn mhath
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Feasgar math
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Oidhche mhath
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Oidhche mhath
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tìoraidh
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Mar sin leibh
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Dè an t-ainm a th' ort?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Is e John an t-ainm a th' orm
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ciamar a tha thu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Deagh choinneamh
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.
A bheil Beurla agad?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Chan eil Hindi agam gu math
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Chan eil mi a' tuigsinn
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mas e do thoil e, bris gu h-ìosal
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
An urrainn dhut sin a ràdh a-rithist?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Càit a bheil an taigh-beag?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)