Looking for practical Xhosa to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Xhosa 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.
Molo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Enkosi
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Lala ngoxolo
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Ndiza kubonana kamva
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Hamba kakuhle
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Ngubani igama lakho?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Igama lam nguJohn
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Unjani?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Kuhle ukukwazi
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.
Uthetha isiNgesi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Andithethi isiHindi kakuhle
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Andiqondi
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Nceda thethe kancinci
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ungakuphinda lokho?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Iphi ibhafu?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)