Phrases
| Sursilvan | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Allegra! | Hello! | |
| Bien di! | Good morning! | |
| Buna sera! | Good evening! | |
| Buna notg! † | Good night! | |
| Sin seveser! | Goodbye! | |
| Co has? | How are you? | |
| Grazia fetg! | Thank you very much! | |
| Fai aschi bien! | Please. | |
| Perstgisei! | Excuse me. | |
| Bien appetit! | Enjoy your meal! | |
| Viva! | Cheers! | |
| in, dus, treis, quater, tschun, sis, siat, otg, nov, diesch | 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
Surselva is the largest Romansh-speaking area. Greet people in shops and on hiking trails, even if you continue in German.
Villages in Clerina
Breil/Brigels, Disentis/Mustér, Domat/Ems, Falera, Flims, Ilanz/Glion, Laax, Lumbrein, Obersaxen, Rueun, Schluein, Sedrun, Sumvitg, Trin, Trun, Vella, Vignogn, Vrin, Waltensburg/Vuorz
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.