Looking for practical Tswana to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tswana 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 Tswana 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.
Dumela
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ke a leboga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Dumelang
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Dumela mo afternoon
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Dumela mo evening
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Borai
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tsamaya sentle
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Tsamaya sentle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
O na le leina mang?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Leina la me ke John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
O kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ke itumetse go kopana le 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.
A o bua Seisemane?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Ke sitwa go bua Hindi sentle
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Ke sitwa go tlhaloganya
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Tsweetswee bua ka bonako
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
A o ka bo o bua seo gape?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Borai bo kae?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)