Speaking with Patients – Luxembourgish for Healthcare settings Part 3

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We’re back in the world of healthcare! 🩺

In Part 2, we focused on useful vocabulary we then put into practice, for example you learnt how to say sentences such as

”to fracture a bone” or “the wound is healing well”

If you skipped that one, it’s definitely worth a listen before diving in today:

In this lesson, you’ll learn

10 practical vocabulary
Simple phrases you can use right away
A short, realistic dialogue to help you practise real-life conversations with patients

Imagine saying: I will prescribe you medicine or The foot is broken, you need a plaster.

Small phrases like these help you connect and care more effectively — in Luxembourgish.

In healthcare, clear and compassionate communication is essential.

Let’s start with the basics. These are words you might use multiple times per day:

E Gips – a plaster (for bone fractures)
Eng Plooschter – a plaster (sticking)
Eng Bandscheif – an intervertebral disc
En Hexeschoss – a lumbago
E Rollstull – a wheelchair
Den Duerchfall hunn – to have diarrhoea
E Medikament verschreiwen – to prescribe medicine
verheelen – to heal up
rëntgen – to X-ray
schwëllen – to swell

Let’s now put some of this key vocabulary context by making some sentences you can use in real-life situations.

Den Dokter verschreift Iech e Medikament – The doctor will prescribe you medicine.
De Fouss ass gebrach, Dir braucht e Gips – The foot is broken; you need a plaster.
Ech maachen Iech eng Plooschter op d’Wonn – I am putting a plaster on the wound.
Mir mussen Äre Knéi rëntgen – We need to X-ray your knee.
Ech hunn d’Féiss geschwollen – My feet are swollen.

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Infirmière: Gudde Moien, wéi geet et Iech haut? – Good morning, how are you (formal) today?

Patient: Et geet net esou gutt. Mäi Fouss ass nach ëmmer geschwollen. – I’m not feeling so well. My foot is still swollen.

Infirmière: Loosst mech emol kucken. Hutt Dir Péng? – Let me have a look. Do you have pain?

Patient: Jo, an d’Goen ass schwéier. – Yes, and it’s difficult to walk.

Infirmière: Den Dokter huet Iech e Medikament verschriwwen. Huelt Dir dat reegelméisseg? – The doctor prescribed you medicine. Do you take it regularly?

Patient: Jo, mee et hëlleft net vill. – Yes, but it doesn’t help very much.

Infirmière: Dat brauch e bëssen Zäit fir ze verheelen. Wann et méi schlëmm gëtt, musse mir de Fouss rëntgen. – It will take a little time to heal. If it gets worse, we’ll need to do an X-ray of your foot.