In Luxembourgish we have regular verbs – reegelméisseg Verben – and irregular verbs – onreegelméisseg Verben and modal verbs. The auxiliary verbs – sinn (to be) & hunn (to have) – are irregular. The Basics Each verb has a basic “infinitive” (to) form. This is the form of the verb you find in a Luxembourgish dictionary. The verb to live in … Read more
In this lesson you will learn how to tell the time in Luxembourgish. Telling the time in Luxembourgish requires knowing three basic ingredients: the numbers from 1 to 12, the words for ‘to‘ and ‘after,’ and the fractions ‘quarter‘ and ‘half‘ (past). By the way if you want to know the different meanings of the word time … Read more
In this lesson you will learn several ways to use the English verb “to think” in Luxembourgish. Over the years of teaching Luxembourgish I have come across students struggling when trying to say “I think ….” in Luxembourgish. You must know that there are lots of different verbs in Luxembourgish to express the act of … Read more
In this lesson you will learn how to pronounce the most common sounds of the Luxembourgish letter “g”. Luxembourgish pronunciation can be challenging and especially the letter “g” is causing some problems to all of my students. Let’s take for example this word: méiglech. How would you pronounce it? Well it is pronounced. Here … Read more
In a previous lesson you have learnt how to ask questions in Luxembourgish. In this lesson I want to give you some hints how to answer questions such as Wéi oft?, Wéi laang? or Wéini? These are questions which occur in every day conversations and with these hints you will be able to answer those questions … Read more
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