Swiss German Dictionary 4+

Very Helpful Sound Recordings

While it may only be a sort of dictionary for Swiss German words, I found the sound recordings especially helpful. The greatest difference between Hochdeutsch and Schwyzerdüütsch is the pronunciation, so this is a great resource.

Good, but limited vocabulary

The layout and organization are very good. It’s easy to quickly look up a translation, and the audio clips are extremely useful.

The only issue with this app is that the vocabulary is quite limited. I’m not referring to specialized trade-words; even many very common words are missing. For example, words like “duck” (both noun and verb), “assemble” (e.g. what one would do with IKEA furniture), “deer”, “install”, “squint”, “giggle”, “kick”, and many more are missing.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for your kind review.
For the selection of expressions, we rely, among others, on a study by R. Jones and E. Tschirner (2006). Among other things, the authors statistically evaluated one million expressions from the spoken language and listed the most frequent expressions in their book. Of the 3,000 most common ones, «Swiss German» covers about 90%. In addition, we have also included expressions that do not exist in High German or are very different from it, such as «tschutte» «sünnele», «bädele», as well as expressions that are placed further down the Tschirner list.

But of course we dream of being able to offer an app one day that contains and explains 5'000 or 10'000 expressions in both directions.
We wish you continued fun and success with «Swiss German».

Thumbs way up

I LOVE this app. So worth the money when living in Switzerland and trying to learn the local dialect. Very easy to use and navigate.
Highly recommended