Looking for practical Venda to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Venda 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: when a Dzongkha phrase looks unfamiliar, compare it with the Venda wording — noticing word order differences helps you understand grammar naturally.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Ndi matsheloni
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Ndi a livhuwa
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ndi matsheloni
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ndi masiari
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ndi madekwana
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ndi masiari a u fhela
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Tshilidzi
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Vhuyani
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ndi mini dzina lenu?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Dzina langa ndi John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Ni khou itea?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Ndi khou funa u vhuya na inwi
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.
Ni a ṱhota ṅwambo?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
A ndi ṱhoti Hindi zwavhudi
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
A ndi ḓivhi
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Ndi ṱhanyela u ṱhota nga ṱhoho
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ndi a ṱanga zwenezwi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Bani hu na khotani?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)