Handle verb = haendla
(See also deela)
Happen verb = haebna
- (eah/see/es) haebbend
- Happened verb = kaebbend past tense
Happy adj = haebbi
Hard adj = hatt
(See also really (for emphasis))
Harder adj = haddah
Es voah haddah fa see.
Hardest adj = hatsht
Sell voah’s hatsht ding.
Harness noun = es ksha
Harvest verb = harvesta
Hassle noun = vattshaft
’Sis en vattshaft!
Hated verb = kast past tense
Da hund hott di katz kast.
Hated adj = kast (to be or become hated; used with forms of sei or vadda)
’Sis nett eesi vann du kast bisht.
Have I verb = havvich (combination of ‘habb ich’; used after time words)
Shpaydah, havvich en appointment.
Vann ich 18 voah, havvich en latt zeit kshpend shaffa.
Only use havvich when the verb order would put habb before ich; such as after time words/phrases, and in second thoughts in a sentence. Otherwise, just use ich habb.
Vass havvich gedu heit fa veisa es ich respekt habb fa anri?
Ich habb mei shoo faliahra.
It’s perfectly fine to just use habb ich instead of havvich. But havvich flows a little better when spoke.
Have the opinion or viewpoint verb = mayna (not used the same as mean (verb))
— See also view
’S mensht leit mayna es is.
Vann du maynsht es’s zu feel is fa deela mitt…
- (ich) mayn
- (du) maynsht
- (eah/see/es) maynd
- (miah) mayna
- (diah) maynet
- (si) mayna
- Had the opinion or viewpoint verb = gmaynd past tense
Ich habb gmaynd alli-ebbah voah feah am getreet vadda, avvah ich habb glei auskfunna sell is nett voah.
Headache noun = kobb vay
Health noun = health
Mei health is shlimmah un shlimmah vadda.
Health adj = health (with another noun)
Hosht du ennich health problems?
Healthy adj = ksund
Unsah kinnah sinn ksund.
Help noun = di hilf
Help verb = helfa
- Helped verb = kolfa past tense
Hitch verb = eishpanna (an animal to a buggy or implement)
Ich muss gay di geil eishpanna.
- Hitched verb = eikshpand past tense
Ich habb da gaul eikshpand.
Hitched adj = eikshpand (used with forms of sei or vadda)
Da gaul is shund eikshpand.
Hold back verb = zrikk hayva (to keep from doing or saying something. Conjugate hayva based on the noun/pronoun)
Homes noun = di haymeda plural (not haymedah)
Honor noun = da honor
Humble adj = humble (not daymeedich)
Humility noun = humility (not daymoot)
Hurry! phrase = Dabbah! (as a command)
Hurt
- Hurt noun = di shmatza (the pain you feel)
Di dohda vissa nix so si kenna kenn shmatza shpiahra. - Hurt verb = shmatza (to feel pain)
- Hurt verb = kshmatzt past tense (to have felt pain in past)
- Hurt verb = vay du (to injure or cause pain)
- Hurt verb = vay gedu past tense (to have injured or caused pain)