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Lesson
Study notes
Learn the different clothes
Learn the colors
Learn to describe a person
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LESSON NOTES
Wat hues du haut un?
In this lesson of Easy Luxembourgish, you will learn the different
clothes, the colors and how to describe a person. After this lesson
you’ll be able to describe a person briefly and what someone is
wearing.
Let’s start by learning the word for “clothes” which is Kleeder.
You know already the word for “to put something on” or “to dress”
which is undoen. Undoen is a separable verb. So in a phrase in
the present tense you separate the prefix un from the root doen:
Am Summer doen ech ëmmer kuerz Boxen un.
In summer I always put on shorts.
Ech hunn haut meng Kanner waarm ugedoen.
I dressed my children warmly today.
And to say “I get dressed” use the verb sech undoen, for example
“I get dressed at half past seven” is Ech doe mech um hallwer
aacht un.
And “to wear” is unhunn. This is as well a separable verb. We have
the prefix un and the stem is the verb hunn. So literally this means
“to have on”. Let’s do a couple of sentences with unhunn:
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Mäi Papp huet haut seng giel Krawatt un.
My father is wearing his yellow tie today.
Eng giel Krawatt is “a yellow tie”. Eng Krawatt is a feminine noun.
Du hues eng flott Box un.
You are wearing nice trousers.
Here we have the word for “a pair of trousers” which is eng Box. As
you can see it is a feminine singular noun eng Box.
Let’s now learn the most common clothes you need to describe a
person.
My Learning Tip:
Learn the clothes straight away with their gender.
We begin with:
eng Jeansbox (feminine)
a pair of jeans
eng kuerz Box (feminine)
shorts
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eng Blus (feminine)
a blouse
eng Jackett (feminine)
a jacket / a coat
eng Jupe (feminine)
a skirt
eng Mutz (feminine)
a hat (woollen)
en T’Shirt (masculine)
a t’shirt
e Pullover (masculine)
a pullover
e Mantel (masculine)
a coat
e Reemantel (masculine)
a raincoat
e Short (masculine)
shorts
e Rack (masculine)
a dress
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e Kostüm (masculine)
a suit
e Schal (masculine)
a scarf
en Hut (masculine)
a hat
en Hiem (neuter)
a shirt
Strëmp (plural)
socks
Schong (plural)
shong
Tallekeschong (plural)
high heels
Stiwwelen (plural)
boots
Sandalen (plural)
Sandals
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Grammar
To describe the clothes a person is wearing you need to put an
adjective before the noun. Adjectives are the words we use to describe
something or a person and remember that the ending of an adjective
changes depending on the gender of the noun.
Let's look at adjectives commonly used to describe people’s
clothes. Imagine you wanted to describe to a friend what your
boyfriend is wearing today:
Mäi Frënd huet haut säi schwaarze Kostüm, säi wäisst Hiem a seng
schick Schong un.
My boyfriend put on today his black suit, his white shirt and his chic shoes.
So schwaarz means “black” and wäiss is “white” and these are
adjectives. When you put an adjective before a masculine noun we
add -en at the end. Therefore we say e schwaarze(n) Kostüm and
as Hiem is a neuter noun we need to add -t at the end: e wäisst
Hiem. And Schong is a plural noun, so the adjective schick does
not change. This applies as well to adjectives placed before a
feminine noun:
D’Fra huet eng blo Box and eng wäiss Blus un.
The woman is wearing blue trousers and a white blouse.
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What are you wearing today?
Ech hunn haut liicht Kleeder un, an zwar eng kuerz rout Jupe, e
gielen T’Shirt a brong Sandalen.
I am wearing light clothing today and more precisely a short red skirt, a
yellow t’shirt and brown sandals.
Liicht Kleeder is “light clothing” and “warm clothing” is waarm
Kleeder. In the phrase eng kuerz rout Jupe we have 2 adjectives:
kuerz so “short” and rout “red”. Now put the color after the first
adjective: eng kuerz rout Jupe or the contrary would be eng laang
rout Jupe.
The Colors
blo wäiss schwaarz rout
blue white black red
giel brong gréng gro
yellow brown green grey
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To describe a person:
Meng Nopesch ass grouss a schlank. Si huet laang brong
gekrauselt Hoer. Si ass meeschtens schick ugedoen.
Si huet oft e kuerze Rack mat enger Blus un oder en hellen Tailleur
an dobäi deet si oft Tallekeschong un.
My neighbour is tall but slim. She has long brown curly hair. Usually she
is dressed up nicely. She often wears a short dress with a blouse or a
light lady’s suit and to that she often puts on high heels.
To ask someone “what do you usually put on at the weekend” say:
Wat dees du normalerweis de Weekend un?
What do you usually put on at the weekend?
A possible answer could be:
De Weekend doen ech ëmmer eng blo Jeansbox un. An dobäi
hunn ech e wäissen T’Shirt oder e Pullover an Turnschlappen un.
At the weekend I always put on blue Jeans. And to that I wear a white T’Shirt
or a Pullover and sneakers.
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Useful Vocabulary to describe a person
grouss
tall
kleng
small
déck
big, fat
dënn
thin
schlank
slim
sportlech
sporty
laang
long
kuerz
short
blond Hoer
blond hair
gekrauselt Hoer
curly hair
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flott
nice, beautiful
schéin
beautiful
ellen
ugly
sympathesch
likeable
frëndlech
friendly
interessant
interesting
langweileg
boring
d’Gesiicht
the face
eng Glatz
a bald head
d’Taille
the waist
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