Rain noun
- da reyya (most common)
- da raegga or da raegla (regional: Daviess County, Indiana)
Raise verb = uf zeeya (to raise children)
Raised adj = ufgezowwa (raised, as in children)
Rather = leevah
Ich dayt leevah…
Reach verb = langa
Reacted verb = react
Vi henn’s mensht leit react zu deah message?
Reading noun = es layses
Reading verb = am laysa
Reader noun = da laysah
Ready adj = reddi
Bisht reddi? Vi reddi es ich vatt.
Real = recht (as in genuine)
recht joy finna
Realized verb = realized past tense
Really = reeli
Really = hatt (for emphasis; used along with a verb)
Eah hott hatt boviaht di shlisla finna.
Si hott hatt vella fa kumma.
Reason noun = da reesin
- Reasons noun = di reesins plural
Recently = katzlich
Vass hott di Becky yusht katzlich gedu katt?
Recommended adj = rekkamend
Bichah, videos, un annah shtoft es rekkamend is.
Record verb = rekorda
Regular adj = reklah
Regret verb = shpeida
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Regret verb = shpeida (conjugate)
Es shpeit mich. (I regret it.) (lit. It regrets me)
Es zayld mich shpeida. (I will regret it.) -
Regretted verb = kshpeit past tense
Sell hott mich kshpeit. (I regretted that.)
Es hott mich kshpeit. (I regretted it.)
Regret noun = regret (use the English word)
Regrets noun = di regrets plural
Relatives noun = di freindshaft plural (relations/family)
Eah is unsah freindshaft. (as in one of our relatives)
’S mensht leit shteahra bei dee goodi sacha sheira mitt iahra friends adda freindshaft.
Rely verb = releiya
Miah missa releiya uf unsah eldra vann miah baybes sinn.
Remember verb = meinda
Ich meind nau.
Remember verb = meind halda (as in keep in mind / continue to remember)
Vass dutt ebbah inna race meind halda?
Reminded verb past tense
- remind past tense
Da Jon hott si remind es eah am kumma is dimeiya. - gegmohnd past tense
Da Amos hott di Arabella droh gegmohnd es see en appointment hott.
Reminded adj = remind (use with form of sei or vadda)
Miah braucha remind vadda diveyya.
Repentant adj = recht sorry (use with form of sei or vadda)
Replace verb = replaysa
- (miah) replaysa
- (si) replaysa
- Replaced verb = replayst past tense
Respect noun = da respekt
Report verb = riporda
Resurrect verb = resurrect (common)
Resurrection noun = da resurrection (common)
- di uffashtayung noun (in the Bible or when referring specifically to Jesus’ resurrection)
Return visit = viddah zrikk gay | return visit
right? / isn’t it? / is that not so? = gell (used at end of sentence as a confirmation of something)
Dei daett shaft mitt construction, gell?
Miah henn samm reeli shayni dawwa katt, gell?
River noun = da revvah (not di revvah)
Rule verb = roola
Ruled adj = groold
’Sis di veesht veld’s groold is bei da Satan.
Ruler noun = da roolah (person with authority)
- Rulers noun = di roolahs plural
Rules noun = di rools (guidelines set by someone in authority)
Run verb
(See also guides shpringa and shprenga and Figures of Speech: Walking and Running)
- Run verb = shpringa (to move; work)
Di generator dutt shpringa.
Miah shpringa alli meiya. - Run verb = shprenga (to operate sometime like a piece of equipment)
Ich kann di equipment shprenga.
Du bisht dei maul am shprenga!