Looking for practical Tetum to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tetum 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.
Olá
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Obrigadu
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Bondia
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona tarde
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona noite
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Bona noite
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ami hanesan
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Adeus
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Quale naran ida?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Naran hau John.
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kona ba o?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Diak ba halo ho o.
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.
Keta fala Inglês?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Hau la fala Hindi diak.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Hau la hatene.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Favor fala ba moris.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Keta bele fala fali?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Onde mak banheira?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)