Looking for practical Tiv to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tiv 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.
Mgbakpa
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ior na
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mgbakpa u sha
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mgbakpa u kpa
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mgbakpa u ter
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mgbakpa u ter sha
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Kpa a joo
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Ior a joo
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ior m ngu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
M ngu John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ior m nande?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ior m nande a joo
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.
I kpa English?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
M nahan Hindi nahan.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
M nahan usha.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
M nahan usha kpa.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
I kpa a sha?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
I we a joo?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)