Looking for practical Somali to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Somali 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 Somali 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.
Salaan
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Mahadsanid
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Subax wanaagsan
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Duhur wanaagsan
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Habeen wanaagsan
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Habeen wanaagsan
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ilaa dambe
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nabad gelyo
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Magacaa maxay tahay?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Magacaygu waa John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Sidee tahay?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Aad ayaan ugu faraxsanahay in aan ku arko
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.
Ma ku hadashaa Ingiriisi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Hindi si fiican uma hadlo
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ma fahmin
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Fadlan si tartiib ah u hadal
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ma ku celin kartaa?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Musqusha xaggee buu yaalaa?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)