de Pendler
the commuter
Example
D'Pendler, déi all Dag an d'Stad schaffe fueren, stinn dacks am Stau.
The commuters who drive to work in the city every day are often stuck in traffic.
Taught in B2 · Living across borders
Luxembourg lives with its neighbours: talk about commuting across the border, working with other countries and working in several languages.
Other words in this lesson
- de Grenzgänger — the cross-border commuter
- d'Groussregioun — the Greater Region (Luxembourg and its neighbouring areas)
- d'Nopeschland — the neighbouring country
- pendelen — to commute, to shuttle
- den Auslänner / d'Auslännerin — the foreigner
- auslännesch — foreign
- d'Immigratioun — immigration
- d'Integratioun — integration
- integréieren — to integrate
- d'Mobilitéit — mobility
- de Salarié — the employee
- den Aarbechtsvertrag — the employment contract
- méisproocheg — multilingual
- den Dolmetscher — the interpreter
- d'Passkontroll — the passport check
- d'Grenzkontroll — the border check
- d'Zesummenaarbecht — the collaboration, the cooperation
- zesummeschaffen — to work together, to cooperate
- grenziwwerschreidend — cross-border
- Dausende — thousands
- sëlleg — quite a few
- d'Grenz — border
- d'Autoritéit — authority
- béid — both