Looking for practical Tsonga to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tsonga 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.
Xewani
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ndza khensa
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Xewani xitulu
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Xewani ntlhanu
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Xewani nhloko
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Xewani xihlayo
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tshamisa
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Sala kahle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
U vitaniwani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ndzina i John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
U njhani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ku rhandza ku hlangana na wena
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.
U vulavula Xitsonga?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
A ndzi vulavula Hindi kahle.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
A ndzi twisisi.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Ndza kombela u vulavula hi ku hatlisa.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
U nga vula sweswo na ku tlhela?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Xikombiso xihi?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)