Looking for practical Sicilian to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Sicilian 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 Sicilian 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.
Ciao
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Grazii
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bongiornu
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona sira
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona sira
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona notti
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
A prestu
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Addiu
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Chi è u tò nomu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
U me nomu è John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Comu stai?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Piaceru di canusciti
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.
Parli inglese?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Un parlu bonu hindi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Un capisciu.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Parla pianu, per favore.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Pò diri chistu n'atra vota?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Unni è u bagnu?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)