Cooking & Markets

1. Wo isch de Märt?

   Where is the market?

   Usage

   The basic question for finding the market where you buy ingredients

   Grammar Note

   composed: Märt is masculine, so the article is de

2. Was isch da drin?

   What is in this?

   Usage

   Asks what a dish contains

   Grammar Note

   composed: da means here and drin means inside

3. Isch das scharf?

   Is this spicy?

   Usage

   A short question about whether a dish is spicy

   Grammar Note

   composed: a question with the verb isch at the start

4. Wie macht me das?

   How do you make this?

   Usage

   Asks how a dish is made; me is the general "one" subject

   Grammar Note

   composed: me corresponds to Standard German man

5. Wo cha ich frischs Gmües choufe?

   Where can I buy fresh vegetables?

   Usage

   Asks where to buy vegetables

   Grammar Note

   composed: Gmües is a neuter collective noun, so the adjective takes the form frischs

6. Ich wett lerne choche.

   I would like to learn to cook.

   Usage

   Says you want to learn cooking, for example when asking about a class

   Grammar Note

   composed: two infinitives follow wett

7. Isch da Fleisch drin?

   Is there meat in this?

   Usage

   Lets someone avoiding meat check whether a dish contains it

   Grammar Note

   composed: Fleisch is a mass noun used without an article

8. Dörf ich probiere?

   May I try some?

   Usage

   A short request to taste something

   Grammar Note

   composed: dörf means "may" and the verb goes to the end as an infinitive

9. d Suppe

   Soup

   Usage

   A word for ordering or naming a dish; the article d is the form before a feminine noun

   Grammar Note

   A feminine noun; the article d is written without an apostrophe

10. s Brot

    Bread

    Usage

    A word for shopping and ingredients; s is the article before a neuter noun

    Grammar Note

    A neuter noun

11. s Salz

    Salt

    Usage

    A seasoning word used while cooking or at the table

    Grammar Note

    A neuter noun

12. de Zucker

    Sugar

    Usage

    A seasoning word; it is masculine, so the article is de

    Grammar Note

    A masculine noun

13. de Chäs

    Cheese

    Usage

    The word for cheese, a staple of Swiss tables; initial k becomes ch

    Grammar Note

    A masculine noun

14. s Gmües

    Vegetables

    Usage

    A collective noun for vegetables in general, treated as singular

    Grammar Note

    A neuter collective noun

15. s Fleisch

    Meat

    Usage

    The general word for meat

    Grammar Note

    A neuter noun

16. d Pfanne

    Frying pan

    Usage

    A word for a cooking utensil

    Grammar Note

    A feminine noun

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