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Yiddish Grammar

The Yiddish grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Yiddish and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: אוּן Under: ונטער
Before: פריער After: נאָך
Inside: אַריין Outside: אַרויס
With: מיט But: אָבער
For: פֿאַר From: פון
To: צו In: אין

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: וואָס? Who?: ווער?
How?: ווי? Why?: פאַרוואָס?
Where?: ווו?

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: קיינ מאָל ניט Rarely: זעלטן
Sometimes: אַ מאָל Usually: געווענליך
Always: שטענדיק Very: זייער

Most commonly used pronouns in Yiddish:

I: איך You: דו
He: ער She: זי
We: מיר They: זיי

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: מייַן Your: דיין
His: זייַן Her: איר
Our: אונדזער Their: זייער

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: איך רעד ענגליש
You speak French: דו רעדסט פראנצייזיש
He speaks German: ער רעדט דײַטש
She speaks Italian: זי רעדט איטאַליעניש
I visited France: איך האָב באזוכט פֿראַנקרײַך
I will drink milk: איך וועל טרינקען מילך

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: איך פאַרשטיי אייך
I don't understand you: איך פאַרשטיי אייך ניט.
I don't speak French: איך רעד ניט פראנצויזיש
This is my house: דאָס איז מיין הויס
That restaurant is far: דער רעסטאָראַן איז ווײַט
No problem: קיין פּראָבלעם

The above Yiddish grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Yiddish vocabulary to obtain some popular Yiddish phrases.


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Did you know? Grammar can help you increase your vocabulary dramatically. Grammar is like a tool which helps you manipulate words in a sentence by changing the shape and location of a word to create something new out of the old one.


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