Looking for practical Sepedi to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sepedi 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.
Dumela
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ke a leboga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Dumelang
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mokhutsong o motle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mokhutsong o motle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Borai bo botle
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tsamaya sentle
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Siyabonga
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
O na le leina lefe?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Leina la ka ke John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
O kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ke thabela go kopana le wena
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.
Na o bua Seisemane?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ke sitwa go bua Hindi sentle
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ke sitwa go kwele
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Tsweetswee bua ka borai
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Na o ka bo o mpotsa gape?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Borai bo kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)