Phrases
| Puter | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Allegra! | Hello! | |
| Bun di! † | Good morning! | |
| Buna saira! † | Good evening! | |
| Buna not! † | Good night! | |
| A revair! † | Goodbye! | |
| Cu vo que cun te? † | How are you? | |
| Grazcha fich! † | Thank you very much! | |
| Per plaschair. † | Please. | |
| S-chüsa! † | Excuse me. | |
| Bun appetit! † | Enjoy your meal! | |
| Viva! † | Cheers! | |
| ün, duos, trais, quatter, tschinch, ses, set, och, nouv, desch † | Counting 1–10 |
▶ Computer voice (OmniVoice, CC BY-NC) – a rough guide that may not sound like the local idiom. All clips are computer voice for now.
† Not in the Lia Rumantscha dictionary (Pledari Grond): chosen by machine translation and how often the form is used in Romansh texts. Puter and Vallader have no searchable dictionary here.
Tip
In the Upper Engadine, German has become common in the tourist centers, so a Romansh greeting stands out and is a friendly conversation starter.
Villages in Clerina
Bever, Celerina/Schlarigna, La Punt Chamues-ch, Madulain, Pontresina, S-chanf, Samedan, Sils/Segl, Silvaplana, St. Moritz/San Murezzan, Zuoz
Other idioms
Sources and licence
Phrases and numbers for Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan and Surmiran: Pledari Grond dictionary, © Lia Rumantscha, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Clerina selected the entries and ranked them by how often they are used in Romansh texts (ZurichNLP); punctuation may be adapted. Entries marked † – mostly Puter and Vallader, whose dictionary cannot be searched here – were proposed by the ZurichNLP Romansh translation model (CC BY-NC 4.0) and still need a check by native speakers. Audio: computer voice (OmniVoice, CC BY-NC), checked by a Romansh speech recogniser – a rough guide only. Clerina is an independent, non-commercial project; Lia Rumantscha and ZurichNLP do not endorse it. Last checked: 2026-10-24.