f-words

Face verb = faysa

Fair adj = feah (reasonable and just)

Faithful adj:

  • faythfel (with n nouns)
    Eah voah faythfel even vann
  • faythfeli (with f or pl nouns)
    faythfeli examples
    selli es faythfeli

The Faithful and Discreet Slave noun = Di Faythfel Slave Mitt Veisheit

Family noun = di family

Family Worship = Family-Zeit Fa Jehova

Far adj = veit
Vass henn miah gland so veit?
Even vann’s veit is fa gay, doon miah alsnoch reklah zammah kumma.

Far off adj = veit ab
Miah gayn even zu areas es veit ab sinn.

Feelings noun = di feelings (not kfeelah) (opinions or emotions)

Fell verb = kfalla past tense
(Even though it’s past tense, use with a form of sei.)
Da bohm is nunnah kfalla.

Fetch verb = hohla (to get or retreive something or someone)
Ich zayld een hohla.

  • (ich) hohl
  • (eah/see/es) hohld
  • (miah) hohla
  • (si) hohla
  • Fetched verb = kohld past tense

Fewer adj = vennichah

Field service noun = di ministry (not feld deensht)

Figure out verb = aus fikkahra

Fill out verb = ausfilla

Find out verb = ausfinna

  • Found out verb = auskfunna past tense

Finish verb = faddich macha (conjugate macha)
(Note: Both words work together but do not have to be right next to each other in the sentence.)
Macht da lesson faddich.

  • Finished verb = faddich gmacht past tense
    Du da dawk nei vann da lesson faddich gmacht hosht.

First (see also language lesson Eahsht vs S’eahsht vs Seahsht)

  • First adj = eahsht (with nouns)
    Gukket da eahsht paragraph.
  • First adj = ’s eahsht (with singular neuter nouns)
    (Note: The es often is shortened to ’s and often gets pronounced together with eahsht. You will be most likely to hear it at the start of a sentence.)
    ’S eahsht moll es ich do voah, habb ich dich kolfa’s haus butza.
  • First adv = seahsht (with verbs)
    Miah missa seahsht lanna vi.

Fisherman noun = da fishah

  • Fishermen noun = di fishah plural
    Ich habb zvay fishah ksenna geshtah.

Fixed verb = kfixt past tense

Fixed adj = kfixt

Flake noun = da flokka

  • Flakes noun = di flekka plural
    ’Sis am shnayya un di flekka sinn grohs.

Flat adj = flaett
Si sinn uf’s flaett dach funn iahra haus.

The Flood noun = di Sindfloot

Foggy adj (See post nevlich and dufftich)

Follow verb = fallohwa

Follow (an example) verb = nohch kumma (to follow after someone and do what they did)
Sei foos-dabba nohch kumma.

Followers noun = di followers plural

For = fa

For other uses for the word fa, see also the dictionary and the words To and Kind of for additional meanings.

For (it) = difoah (usually used when putting for at the end of a thought or sentence) (Compare with previously)
Veah is da boi gmacht difoah?

Forgetful adj = fagesslich

Footsteps / Footprints noun = di foos-dabba plural

Force verb = forsa
Miah kenna nett leit forsa fa ebbes du es miah vella.

Forenoon = fammidawk (See also Times of day)

Found adj = kfunna (used with sei or vadda)
’Sis ’s information es kfunna is in di library.

Free adj = free (not frei)
Sell is da vayk es miah free sei kenna.

Freedom noun = da freedom

Friend noun = da friend (not freind)

Friendship noun = da friendship

From prep (See Prepositions lesson guide)

  • from = funn (to introduce a noun; most common)
  • from = difunn (at the end of sentence or thought)

Frosty adj = frushtich

Fulfill verb = folfilla

  • Fulfilled verb = folfild past tense

Fulfilled adj = folfild (often with sei or vadda)

Full

  1. foll (filled; complete)
  2. satt (after eating food; satisfied)

Fun noun

  1. fann
  2. kshposs (something really or very fun)
    Miah henn kshposs katt geshtah!

Fun adj

  1. fann
  2. fitt (see also good)
    Sell voah fitt!

Funeral noun = da leicht

Future noun = da future