Looking for practical Tahitian to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tahitian 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.
Ia ora na
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Mauruuru
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ia ora na i te poiri
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ia ora na i te ahiahi
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ia ora na i te po
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Māuruuru i te po
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Aita e nūna
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nānā
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
O vai to oe inoa?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
O John to'u inoa
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
E aha te huru?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ua here au i te hi'oraa
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.
E parau ana oe i te reo Pā'ā?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Eiaha vau e parau i te reo Hindi i te mau mea.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Eiaha vau e a'ore.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
E parau mai i te tempo e haere mai.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
E nehenehe anei oe e parau mai i te mea oia?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
O vai te fare to'ato'a?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)