nuscheln

See also: Nuscheln

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnʊʃəln/ (official standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈnʊʒəln/ (more common, at least in the northern half of the language area)

Verb

nuscheln (third-person singular simple present nuschelt, past tense nuschelte, past participle genuschelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to mumble (to speak with lacking enunciation)
    Das ist kein Dialekt, das ist nur genuscheltes Hochdeutsch.
    This is not a dialect, it’s just mumbled standard German.

Usage notes

  • Nuscheln is distinct from murmeln (“to speak with lacking audibility”).
  • The verbs nuscheln and wuscheln seem to be the only two German words of native origin in which the sound [ʒ] is heard.

Conjugation

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