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	Swiss German	English
#9	Swiss German by Sascha Baer
	Er wird di für immer liaba. Diar tüan d'Knocha we und im dr Rugga. Er schwitzt, er het kai Grund di z'ärgera. Er isch am zittera, er het kai Grund zum di vrlo.	He will always love you. Your bones hurt you, and his back him. He sweats, he has no reason to annoy you. He is shaking, he has no reason to leave you.

LEXICON

Nouns are listed with their grammatical gender. For irregular verbs, the forms occuring in the text have been listed as separate entries.

am	prep.	at/on the (masc)
ärgera	v.	to annoy, irritate
für	prep.	for
Grund	n-masc.	reason
het	v-irr.	3s of "ha": to have
immer	adv.	always
isch	v-irr.	3s of "si": to be
kai	det.	no
Knocha	n-masc.	bone
liaba	v.	to love
Rugga	n-masc.	back
schwitza	v.	to sweat
tua	v.	to do
und	conj.	and
vrlo	v.	to leave (someone), to abandon
we	n-neut.	pain
wird	v-irr.	3s of "werda": to become, auxiliary for future tense (with infinitive), auxiliary for passive (with participle)
z'	prep.	to, at, in
zittera	v.	to shiver, shake
zum	prep.	to, to the

Pronouns

	NOM	ACC	DAT
2s	du	di	diar
3s.MASC	er	in	im

Definite Articles

	NOM/ACC	DAT
MASC	dr	am
NEUT	ds	am
FEM	d'	dr
PL	d'	da

GRAMMAR

The inflected part of the verb phrase occurs at second position in the sentence. Unmarked word order is SVO, but others (such as OVS or AdvVSO) exist. Uninflected parts of the verb (such as infinitives if there's an auxiliary) always come at the end.
Verbs usually have the infinitive ending -a. Within this text, the only relevant exception is "tua", which doesn't have an ending.
To inflect a verb in the present tense, the infinitive ending is replaced by a personal ending:

-a for 1s
-sch for 2s
-t for 3s
-n for plural

For some verbs, the stressed vowel is altered when inflected in some forms.
The continuous aspect is marked with the construction "be (inflected) + am + infinitive"