Please e-Mail me. I'll be gone for a few hours, though, but shall be back in the late afternoon.

there is no Swiss German language. Swiss German is a collection of unstandardized dialects without a formal written language, formalized spelling or formalized pronunciation. As such "Bündnerisch", "Berndütsch", "Baseldütsch" etc. are no languages but dialects. Even within the regional dialects, there's no official form - there may be local sub-dialects that sound completely different.

Crikey. I agree that's pretty heavy stuff to be posting on the internet and I'm not surprised you want to use PM instead. A really personal message like that must have been written for somebody who understands Swiss German though, right?

Well, if Dave70 is posting things that come from spying on somebody, sooner or later somebody might find those words on the Net.

On the other hand, I can think of circumstances in which somebody would not mind a non-speaker of the language learning what was written.

hi, plz somebody can help me in traslation of one txt? swiss german to english

The rules are that you introduce yourself on your first posting.

Today seems to be the day people comment on old posts here, so I will fix the one nobody did up to now. Comedy gold people did not dig out...

I'd say there is a typo in the first sentence - it probably was "kastanienbraun" not "Kastanienbaum" - but that is a typical "i have my spell check on" mistake. And there are a couple of understones that got lost in the first translation:

"Hey, you were chestnut-brown and you said you grabbed a couple? Are you so much into Thai girls?"

I am not 100% sure what "grabbed" might stand for in that context

1. Please introduce yourself.

2. I will only translate if the content is not to intimate and I know the motivation behind.

Treverus, there is a settlement or small village called Kastanienbaum on Lake Lucerne just a few km south of Lucerne. I don't know if there are any Thai girls to grab there, but someone having been there ("z'Kastaniebaum" or possibly "im Kastaniebaum," depending on the local usage of the name) would make much more sense than a person being chestnut brown.

That makes perfect sense. I was obviously not aware of that village... and it is the liklier choice. However, "kastanienbraun" is perfectly normal to describe a shade of brown - just as most other trees are used for that. So you will find anything from clothes to haircolor under "kastanienbraun"... if there was not village, I would have seen it as a reference for a sun teint.

Or as Heino would have put it:

hey, my name is frank and i live in the U.S

i have a friend from switzerland and we also are friends on facebook, however, since the majority of her friends can read swiss german, so most of her posts on facebook are in swiss german and i cannot understand pretty much nothing...

can someone help me with some translations please?

Right, but in Swiss German you'd say "kaschtaniebruu," (or maybe write "kastaniebruu," since there is no standardized Swiss German orthography), never ever "-braun."

Oh my, I'm terribly Swiss again....

"kaschtaniebruu" would be in canton glarus. in most other swiss german parts, it will be "kaschtaniebruun".

"Kaschtaniebruu" is correct in many, if not all, parts of North-Eastern Switzerland, by far not only in Glarus. I grew up in St. Gallen City. When I way young, no one would have said "bruun" there. But the "n" doesn't matter anyway. The essential part is the "uu" instead of "au" as in Standard German. There is not a single Swiss German dialect that says, "braun."

Hello,
I need this facebook post translated please Hope it is nothing bad/rude
"Die hed um dech ume am Schluss secher au ke Federe me gha"
"jo fascht wers so wid cho"

hey guys
does any of you know what
z'benäh
means??
thanks

Sorry I missed this post earlier.

Translation:

"I'm sure she eventually lost all her feathers because of you" [figuratively speaking, meaning she must have had a darned hard time]

"z'benäh" is short "to behave."

thanks! from what word in high german does it come from?

sich benehmen

well, the corresponding High German word would be "benehmen".

However, it's incorrect to assume that Swiss German words have been derived from High German. It's the other way round, really - first, there were many regional dialects (such as the Swiss dialects). Later, a standardized "High German" language was created, based on many of these dialects.

"benehmen" and "benäh" both come from Old High German (*) "pineman"


*) although the name sounds similar, this is not what modern High German is based on