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Seis pessoas, três terminações e dois verbos que fazem à sua maneira. Quem sabe conjugar wunnen sabe conjugar a maior parte dos verbos da língua.
13 palavras e expressões
- ech
- eu
- du
- tu
- hien
- ele
- si
- ela; eles / elas (o verbo diz qual) The verb tells you which: si wunnt is she, si wunnen is they.
- hatt
- ele / ela (neutro: uma coisa, uma rapariga ou uma jovem) The neuter pronoun. Also used for a girl or a young woman: d’Meedchen … hatt.
- mir
- nós
- dir
- vós / vocês (Dir com maiúscula: você, formal) Written Dir, with a capital, it is the polite "you" for one person and takes the same verb form.
- sinn
- ser / estar
- hunn
- ter
- heeschen
- chamar-se
- kommen
- vir
- wunnen
- morar
- schwätzen
- falar
Gramática
Six persons, three endings
A Luxembourgish verb changes with the person, but far less than a French or Portuguese one. Take the infinitive — wunnen — and remove -en: the stem is wunn-.
ech wunnen · du wunns · hien / si / hatt wunnt · mir wunnen · dir wunnt · si wunnen.
So there are only three forms to learn: the infinitive itself for ech, mir and si; -s for du; -t for hien / si / hatt and for dir.
- Du wunns zu Lëtzebuerg. — You live in Luxembourg.
- Dir wunnt zu Esch. — You live in Esch. (several people, or politely)
Some verbs change their vowel
In the du and hien / si / hatt forms, some verbs change their vowel: kommen gives du kënns, hien kënnt — but mir kommen, dir kommt. The endings stay the same; only the vowel moves.
When the stem already ends in -z, the du form adds nothing: du schwätz, hatt schwätzt. heeschen keeps its vowel: du heeschs, hien heescht.
Every verb’s page shows its full table, straight from the LOD — look there when a verb surprises you.
- Du kënns aus Portugal. — You come from Portugal.
- Si schwätzt Lëtzebuergesch. — She speaks Luxembourgish.
sinn and hunn do their own thing
ech sinn, du bass, hien / si / hatt ass, mir sinn, dir sidd, si sinn.
ech hunn, du hues, hien / si / hatt huet, mir hunn, dir hutt, si hunn.
Learn these two by heart: besides being the most used verbs, they build the past of every other one — ech hu geschafft, ech si komm.
- Ech si midd. — I am tired.
- Hues du Kanner? — Do you have children?
The n that comes and goes
A final -n is often dropped before the next word. It stays before a vowel and before d, t, z, n and h; it disappears before every other consonant. So ech wunnen zu Esch keeps its n (z), but ech si midd and mir hu keng Zäit lose it (m, k).
That is why the tables read ech si gewiescht and ech hu geschafft — and it is the same rule as Gudde Moien / Gudden Owend from the first lesson. Written Luxembourgish follows it too.
- Mir hu keng Zäit. — We have no time.
- Mir hunn zwee Kanner. — We have two children.
Prática
6 exercícios: escolha múltipla, escrita, correspondência e ordenar palavras.