Looking for practical Tamazight to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tamazight 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 Tamazight 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.
Azul
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Tanemmirt
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Sbah lkhir
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Nhar lkhir
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mrahba
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Lila saïda
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Nqra wul
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Besslama
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Mekka isem-ik?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Isem-iyi John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Mekka tzemre?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Safi nniḍen
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.
Tzziɣ ad tḥeddar ɣef l'anglais?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ur tḥeddar ɣef l'hindi d-ɣer
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ur nḥemmer
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
S'il te plaît, tḥeddar ssiɣ
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ma tḥeddar aḥiḍ?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Wul is tazart?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)