Looking for practical Swati to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Swati 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 Swati 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.
Sawubona
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ngiyabonga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Siyaphila
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Siyaphila
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Siyaphila
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Lalani kahle
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Sizobonana
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Hamba kahle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ubani igama lakho?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Igama lami nguJohn
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Unjani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Kuhle ukuhlangana nawe
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.
Ukhuluma ngesiNgisi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Angikhulumi kahle ngesiHindi.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Angiqondi.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Ngiyacela, khuluma kancane.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ungakuphindze lokho?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Iphi indlu yangasese?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)