Looking for practical Tagalog to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tagalog 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: pick five Dzongkha phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Kamusta
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Salamat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Magandang umaga
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Magandang hapon
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Magandang gabi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Magandang gabi
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Kita-kits
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Paalam
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ano ang pangalan mo?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ang pangalan ko ay John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kamusta ka?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ikinagagalak kong makilala ka
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.
Nagsasalita ka ba ng Ingles?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Hindi ako marunong mag-Hindi nang mabuti
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Hindi ko naiintindihan
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Pakiusap, magsalita nang dahan-dahan
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Maaari mo bang ulitin iyon?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Nasaan ang banyo?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)