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22.10.2012, 16:23
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| | | Excuse me in Swiss german
I know how to say it in high German, French and Spanish and have used it when I needed to get by but the people do not move. I figured if I asked in Swiss German maybe that would do the trick.
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22.10.2012, 16:24
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
Depends on the dialect...but "Tschuldigung" or "Tscholdigung" should do the trick.
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22.10.2012, 16:28
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22.10.2012, 17:39
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
In the bus I always hear people say entschuldigung.
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22.10.2012, 18:01
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
excüsé, tschuldigung or sorry should all do the trick
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22.10.2012, 18:04
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
I use Pardon mainly .. simpler and understood in Zürich.
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22.10.2012, 18:50
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
I don't know, but everytime I've said "entschuldigung" in Germany (Hessen) I always got a nasty "nix passiert" as a reply... I always was cautious to say entschuldigung here because of it.
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22.10.2012, 19:01
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
Just say excuse me fairly loudly in English, it seems to bemuse them and they let you past but I always say thank you  Swiss tend to sigh and tut rather than say excuse me so they can pass and I cannot understand that. I have often said to a Swiss person especially on escalators "why huff and puff just say excuse me" einfach, oder..... Simple innit!
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22.10.2012, 19:19
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
Darf ich mal durch!?
With a marshall tone, they will hate you but they'll move. Even in Zurich.
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22.10.2012, 22:13
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
the "bitte" is the key word... | | The following 2 users would like to thank OSueco for this useful post: | | 
23.10.2012, 01:47
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | the "bitte" is the key word... | | | | | Maybe, but the word to be used is EXGüSI
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23.10.2012, 07:32
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
If you mean the english style apology when you didnt do anything wrong in the first place.
Then "Selber Schuld" but I should point out it is used with another cultural perspective at heart!
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23.10.2012, 07:42
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
"Raus! Raus!! Schnell! Schnell!!!!" hasn't let me down yet, especially since I haven't got the balls to actually say it yet.
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23.10.2012, 08:21
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | "Raus! Raus!! Schnell! Schnell!!!!" hasn't let me down yet, especially since I haven't got the balls to actually say it yet. | | | | | Or else "Heiss und fettig", as though you were a waiter in a restaurant ...
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23.10.2012, 09:36
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | Or else "Heiss und fettig", as though you were a waiter in a restaurant ... | | | | | Right. "Heiss" (hot) alone usually doesn't do the job, but adding "fettig" (greasy) or "ölig" (oily) always works.
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23.10.2012, 09:47
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german
Normally they just stand looking mad that you didn't see that they want to pass.
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23.10.2012, 19:15
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | the "bitte" is the key word... | | | | | Yes I do always use the word bitte (Please) afterwards. Today I was trying to get on the tram with the baby stroller and bunch of kids would not move even after saying all the above in cluding EXCUSE ME. I finally said loudly MOVE! That worked but I don't always want to be rude becuase with a young toddler she will emmilate what I say or do and I do not want her to start that.
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23.10.2012, 22:17
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | Yes I do always use the word bitte (Please) afterwards. Today I was trying to get on the tram with the baby stroller and bunch of kids would not move even after saying all the above in cluding EXCUSE ME. I finally said loudly MOVE! That worked but I don't always want to be rude becuase with a young toddler she will emmilate what I say or do and I do not want her to start that. | | | | | Move ahead
say "exgüsi"
move people aside
loudly say "merci" | 
24.10.2012, 07:17
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | I use Pardon mainly .. simpler and understood in Zürich. | | | | | I am going with this as the stuff in the video is unpronounceable without electrodes attached to certain body parts.
Shame the Brits didn't colonise this part of the world. Could have had a sensible language, proper cheese, bacon, right-hand drive, orderly queues, Sunday opening........
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24.10.2012, 08:46
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| | | Re: Excuse me in Swiss german | Quote: | |  | | | I am going with this as the stuff in the video is unpronounceable without electrodes attached to certain body parts.
Shame the Brits didn't colonise this part of the world. Could have had a sensible language, proper cheese, bacon, right-hand drive, orderly queues, Sunday opening, drunken louts, pink mini skirts, hooligans, lousy weather, ginger kids, upper class twits........ | | | | | Quite agree.
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