Looking for practical Yoruba to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Yoruba 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 Yoruba 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.
Bawo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
O seun
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
E kaaro
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
E kaasan
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
E kuurole
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
O daaro
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
A ri e laipe
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
O dabọ
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Kí ni orukọ rẹ?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Orukọ mi ni John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Bawo ni?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Inu mi dun lati pade e
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.
Ṣe o n sọ Gẹ́gẹ́?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Mi ò sọ Hindi dáadáa
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Mi ò ye mi
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Jọwọ sọ ní kíkankíkan
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Ṣe o le sọ é lẹ́ẹ̀kan síi?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Nibo ni baluwe wa?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)