Luxembourgish grammar

13 guides that take you from the sounds of Luxembourgish to its tenses, in the order we would read them. Every example is a sentence from the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire (LOD), most read by a native speaker.

Sounds and spelling

The sentence

Verbs and tenses

Putting it into practice

Verb tables

Every tense of 212 verbs, with LOD's example sentences. Start with these:

All Luxembourgish verbs

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Questions

What is the Luxembourgish n-rule?

A final n drops before most consonants and stays before vowels and before d, t, z, h and n: gudde Moien, but gudden Owend.

Does Luxembourgish have a simple past?

Only a small number of very common verbs do (war, hat, koum, goung, wollt, konnt…). Everyday speech uses the perfect with hunn or sinn: ech hu gemaach, ech si gaangen.

Is it du or Dir in Luxembourgish?

Du for friends, family and children; Dir for people you don't know well and for several people. Dir takes the plural verb: Dir sidd, Dir hutt.

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