Bengali for work and business
Meetings, emails, deals — professional Bengali for offices, clients and interviews.
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Work Bengali starts with introductions: আমি রাহুল, আমি গ্রামীনফোনে কাজ করি (I'm Rahul, I work at Grameenphone). আমার পদবি ব্যবস্থাপক (my title is manager). Add আপনার সঙ্গে দেখা করে ভালো লাগল (pleased to meet you) and your first meeting opens itself — formal, warm, and unmistakably professional.
Meetings run on five sentences: মিটিং কটায়? (what time is the meeting?), আজকের আলোচ্য বিষয় (today's agenda), আমি একমত (I agree), আমি ভেবে দেখব (I'll think it over), পরের সপ্তাহে আবার বসি (let's sit again next week). Master these and you can survive any meeting while your vocabulary catches up.
Money talk stays polite but plain: দাম নিয়ে আলোচনা করি (let's discuss the price), বাজেট কত? (what's the budget?), চুক্তি সই করুন (please sign the deal). Bengalis negotiate firmly and smile constantly — match both. Confirm every deal in writing the same day; spoken yeses are warm, written yeses are real.
Interviews and email close the kit. আমি এই পদের জন্য আবেদন করছি (I'm applying for this post), আমার অভিজ্ঞতা পাঁচ বছরের (I have five years' experience). In email: one request per message, আপনি throughout, ধন্যবাদ to close. Professional Bengali is just polite Bengali with the sleeves rolled up.
Words and phrases for this topic
| English | Bengali | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| Office | অফিস | ophish |
| What time is the meeting? | মিটিং কটায়? | meeting kotay |
| Colleague | সহকর্মী | shohokormi |
| I agree | আমি একমত | ami ekmot |
| Please send an email | ইমেইল পাঠান | email pathan |
| Please call | ফোন করুন | phone korun |
| Let's discuss the price | দাম নিয়ে আলোচনা করি | dam niye alochona kori |
| Deal / contract | চুক্তি | chukti |
| Salary | বেতন | beton |
| Interview | ইন্টারভিউ | interview |
| Experience | অভিজ্ঞতা | obhiggota |
| Thank you | ধন্যবাদ | dhonnobad |
| See you tomorrow | কাল দেখা হবে | kal dekha hobe |
Language, culture, and common traps
Practice: recall, then use
Use this quick recall drill for Bengali for work and business. Hide the script and romanisation columns; say the Bengali form for each cue before revealing its row, then check spelling and sound. The phrase-table speaker buttons provide a model when a matching browser voice is available.
- Office
- Let's discuss the price
- See you tomorrow
Context check. For Bengali for work and business, “See you tomorrow” belongs to a particular setting. A common mistake is to treat an English gloss as universal; read the language-specific note above and ask a fluent speaker when local usage differs.
Check your recall: answer key
- অফিস ophish — Office
- দাম নিয়ে আলোচনা করি dam niye alochona kori — Let's discuss the price
- কাল দেখা হবে kal dekha hobe — See you tomorrow
Questions learners ask
আপনি, always — with clients, seniors and strangers, in every meeting and email. Bengali workplaces run on আপনি; তুমি arrives only with genuine friendship, usually after months. Formal first is never wrong.
Short, formal, and আপনি throughout: বিষয় (subject) first, then one clear request per email, closed with ধন্যবাদ and your name. Bengali business email is more formal than English — when in doubt, add one more দয়া করে.
Begin with নমস্কার and your introduction, end with a clear next step and কাল/আগামী সপ্তাহে দেখা হবে (see you tomorrow/next week). State the price plainly — দাম নিয়ে আলোচনা করি (let's discuss the price) — and confirm everything in writing.