Looking for practical Twi to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Twi 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.
Akwabaa
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Medase
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mema wo akye
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mema wo aha
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Mema wo adwo
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Da yie
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Yɛbɛhyia bio
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Nante yie
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Wo din de sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Me din de John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Wo ho te sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ɛyɛ me anigye sɛ mehyia wo
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.
Wopɛ sɛ woka Borɔfo?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mente Hindi pa
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mente ase
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Mepa wo kyɛw, kasa kakra
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Wobɛtumi akasa bio?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Ɛhe na ɔdan no wɔ?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)