Looking for practical Waray to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Waray 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: pick five Dzongkha phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Kumusta
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Salamat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Maayong buntag
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong hapon
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong gabi-i
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Maayong pagkatulog
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Kita kits
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Babayi na
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ano an imo ngaran?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
An akon ngaran amo hi John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kamusta ka?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Maupay nga makilala ka
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.
Nagsasalita ka ba hin Ininggles?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Diri ako maaram mag-Ininggles hin maupay.
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Diri ako nasasabtan.
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Palihug, magsalita hin hinay.
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Pwede mo ito isulti pag-usab?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Asa an banyo?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)