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This document teaches Luxembourgish vocabulary for describing clothing, colors, and people's appearances in 3 sentences or less: 1) It provides Luxembourgish terms for common articles of clothing like jeans, shirts, jackets, and shoes along with their genders. 2) It lists colors like blue, white, black, and red used to describe clothing. 3) Examples are given for describing what someone is wearing and their physical appearance using adjectives that change form based on the noun's gender.

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15 Study Notes Kleeder

This document teaches Luxembourgish vocabulary for describing clothing, colors, and people's appearances in 3 sentences or less: 1) It provides Luxembourgish terms for common articles of clothing like jeans, shirts, jackets, and shoes along with their genders. 2) It lists colors like blue, white, black, and red used to describe clothing. 3) Examples are given for describing what someone is wearing and their physical appearance using adjectives that change form based on the noun's gender.

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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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