There is a widespread reluctance to speak High German in German-speaking Switzerland, and many Swiss prefer to speak even bad French or English to people who do not speak Swiss dialect.
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High german
Synonyms for "high german" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
central german varietiesgerman
Strong matches (3)
Adjective(1 words)
german dialekt
Noun(2 words)
german languagehigh german historical form
Related words (5)
Noun(5 words)
Related word relations
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5 entriesGerman languageGerman language historyWest GermanicWest Germanic languagelinguistic history
More specific
9 entriesAlemannic GermanEast Central GermanHochdeutsch pronunciationHochdeutsch spellingStandard GermanStandard German dialectUpper Germanconsonant shiftsound change
Collocations
9 entriesHigh German grammarHigh German languageHochdeutsch pronunciationHochdeutsch spellingOld High GermanStandard GermanUpper Germanhigh German pronunciationhochdeutsch term
Inflections
3 entriesHigh Germanshigher Germanhighest German
Derivations
2 entriesHigh Germanichochdeutsch
Translations
9 translations across 9 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- верхненяме́цкі adj (language-related)
Danish
1 entries- højtysk adj (language-related)
Dutch
1 entries- Hoogduits adj (language-related)
German
1 entries- hochdeutsch adj (language-related)
Hungarian
1 entries- felnémet adj (language-related)
Polish
1 entries- wysokoniemiecki adj (language-related)
Russian
1 entries- верхненеме́цкий adj (language-related)
Swedish
1 entries- högtysk adj (language-related)
Ukrainian
1 entries- верхньоніме́цький adj (language-related)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
We, the students, also were supposed to speak High German, but, like our teachers, we did so with a fairly strong Swabian accent.
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Many foreigners who learn to speak High German complain that Swiss people only reluctantly reply in High German. Apparently Swiss people generally don't like to speak High German. Why is that so? For the Swiss, High German is a foreign language.
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I used to harrangue the mob, in broken English, under pretence of being an High German doctor.
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