Photos from Villigen, Switzerland and surroundings
Grüezi = hello. The greeting used in a large part of German-speaking Switzerland. Wiktionary entry in German. Largely unpronouncable for most of us not born into the language.
Bit of trivia: Here's a 17 second interview clip of Tina Turner, a Zürich resident, making an attempt.
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8 comments:
Coucou !!
Gruezi to you too!
I loved hiking in the Glarner Alps and exchanging that greeting with each passing hiker.
I never knew this. Do you every try and use it yourself?
Bergson is a very funny man !
I will talk about "grüezi" with our german friends in next october.
Hello Bergson! Thank you for coming by.
Dina: It's nice, isn't it?
Kris: Oh yes, I do.
Claude: The word is specifically Swiss-German, so your German friends probably won't know it. Gruss Gott is a form that's used in some parts of Germany and in Austria.
As a matter of interest, which languages do you speak yourself?
Schweizerdeutsch is definitely a special language. I lived in Austria and became pretty adept at that dialect, but Swiss German eludes me!
But then there is:
Gruezi voll - by a Luzernen
Grussa - by a Bernese
or
Salu - by ?
I could differentiate btw Zurich, Berne & Luzerne (that one is so cute) dialects by sound at one time. I also got to the point where I could make out what a conversation was about, but couldn't speak it. One word that stuck after all these years is "tuuzig".
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