Looking for practical Tajik to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tajik 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 Tajik 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.
Салом
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ташаккур
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Субҳи хайр
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Баъд аз зуҳр
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Шаббохир
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Шаб ба хайр
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Баъд мебинем
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Хайр
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Номатон чист?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Номи ман Ҷон аст
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Шумо чӣ хелед?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Хуш ба дидор
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.
Шумо англисӣ гап мезанед?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ман ҳиндиро хуб гап намезанам.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ман намефаҳмам.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Лутфан, оҳиста гап занед.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Мехоҳед, инро боз гап занед?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ванна куҷост?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)