100 everyday Luxembourgish verbs with meanings, present and past

The 100 verbs a Luxembourgish learner needs first, grouped by theme — sinn, hunn and the modals, going and coming, talking, thinking, home, work and other people — each with its meaning, present and past from the official LOD tables.

Updated November 1, 2026 · 6 min read

You can say a surprising amount with a hundred verbs. These are the ones a Luxembourgish learner needs first — to introduce yourself, get through a day, talk about work and family, and pass the speaking part of the Sproochentest. We chose them for usefulness in everyday life, not from a frequency count, and grouped them by theme so they are easier to learn together.

Each verb shows its English meaning, the he/she form of the present and the perfect — the two forms that tell you whether a verb is regular, whether it changes its vowel, and whether it takes *huet* or *ass* in the past. All forms come from the conjugation tables of the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire (LOD); each verb links to its full table with every person and tense and example sentences read by native speakers.

Being, having and the modal verbs (8)

Going, coming and moving (16)

Talking and understanding (13)

Knowing, thinking and feeling (13)

At home, every day (15)

Work, study and shopping (17)

Giving, taking and other people (18)

Hear a few of them in sentences

How to learn 100 verbs without forgetting them

1. Sixteen at a time. Take one group, or sixteen verbs, a day. A hundred verbs is a week, not a semester.
2. Learn the he/she form and the perfect with the infinitive — *maachen, mécht, huet gemaach* — the way the tables show them. These three forms predict almost everything else.
3. Recall, don't reread. Cover the Luxembourgish column and say the verb from the English. Recalling a form is what makes it stay; rereading only feels like learning.
4. Come back tomorrow, then next week. The verbs you missed come back first. Spacing the reviews beats any amount of cramming.
5. Use each verb in one true sentence about yourself — *Ech schaffen zu Kierchbierg. Ech si mam Zuch komm.* — and check the word order in the word-order guide.

Keep learning

• The present tense: endings and vowel changes
• Irregular verbs and the five modals
• The past tense: huet or ass + participle
• Word order: where the second verb goes
• Personal pronouns
• The n-rule
• Negation
• Asking questions
• Greetings and everyday phrases
• All 210 Luxembourgish verb tables