schwierig

  1. difficult, hard, challenging, tough
  2. difficult, prickly

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schwiirig

Zürich

Zürich

schwierig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

difisyyl

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

schwierig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃviːrɪç/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German swiric, sweric (“full of boils”), a derivative of Schwäre. Cognate to dated Dutch zwerig (“full of boils”).

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