Looking for practical Turkmen to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Turkmen 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.
Salam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Sag bol
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Erteňiz hayyr
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Gündizňiz hayyr
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Akşamyňyz hayyr
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Gowy gijeler
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Görüşeriz
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Hoşlaşýarys
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Adyňyz näme?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Meniň adym John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Nädip?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Siz bilen tanyşmak hoş
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.
Siz iňlisçe gepleýärsiňizmi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Men hindçe gowy geplemeýärin.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Men düşünmeýärin.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Hawa, haýyş edýärin, seýrek gepleiň.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Şuny gaýtalap aýdyp bilersiňizmi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Wc nirede?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)