Ever found yourself stuck, unsure how to ask for feedback in Luxembourgish? Or worried you might not sound polite or professional when asking someone’s opinion?
In this lesson, I will show you how to ask for someone’s opinion, how to acknowledge someone’s opinion and how to give your own opinion.
These are all very important conversational skills.
Whether you’re preparing a project presentation or just want to communicate more naturally with colleagues, this lesson is your step-by-step guide to sounding confident, polite, and professional.
How do you ask for someone’s opinion?
Imagine you’re preparing a presentation for a new project, which is is a very common situation in the workplace You’ve finished your draft and now you want some feedback, you want someone else’s perspective to make your work better, and it’s polite and professional to ask for their opinion before finalizing your presentation.
So what could you ask your coworker?
- Wat ass deng Meenung zu ….. – What do you think about …
Beispiller:
👉Wat ass deng Meenung zu menger Presentatioun? – What do you think about my presentation?
👉Wat ass deng Meenung zu dësem neie Projet? – What do you think about this new project?
Notice that we use here the preposition zu: Wat ass deng Meenung zu – learn and repeat this sentence with its preposition so that in a conversation you don’t have to think about the correct preposition. So with “Meenung” we use zu
Now to ask someone’s opinion about a person you’ll need to use another preposition:
Wat ass deng Meenung iwwer den neie Minister?
Wat ass deng Meenung iwwer eis nei Personalcheffin?
Or you can ask all this more direct:
- Wéi fënns du …. – What do you think about …
👉Wéi fënns du meng Presentatioun?
Or when talking to several people for example coworkers:
👉Wéi fannt dir …..
👉Wéi fënns du dëse neie Projet?
- Wat häls du vu(n) …. – What do you think about …
👉Wat häls du vu menger Presentatioun?
👉Wat häls du vum neie Stonneplang?
Have you noticed which preposition I used here? “Vun” and this is a preposition which requires the Dative Case – Read this lesson here.
Let’s look at some other expressions that mean the same thing:
- Ech hätt gären deng Meenung zu …. – I’d love to hear your opinion on.
👉Ech hätt gären deng Meenung zu dëser Grafik. Wat mengs du? – I’d love to hear your opinion on this graphic. What do you think?
Here you can add on the question: Wat mengs du? What do you think?
👉Ech hätt gären deng Meenung zu eisem neie Programm. Wat mengt dir? – I’d love to hear your opinion on our new program. What do you think?
How do you respond to someone's opinion?
Ok. So you’ve asked someone for their opinion on something. Now what do you say after they give you their opinion? Well it’s good to acknowledge what someone says. So here are some ways to do that . You can say:
- Ech verstinn, wat s du mengs. – I hear what you are saying (lit: I understand, what you mean)
Or
👉 Ech verstinn, wat s de soe wëlls – I see where you’re coming from
Or very short:
👉 Ech verstinn. Meaning literally: I understand. So you show that you acknowledged somebody’s opinion. These all mean: I understand your opinion. It doesn’t mean that I agree with your opinion but it means I understand it.
And if you agree you can add on And I agree which is in Lux
- An ech sinn (domadder) averstanen / ech sinn d’Accord
- An ech sinn där selwechter Meenung
👉 Ech verstinn, wat s du mengs. An ech sinn (domadder) averstanen. I see where you’re coming from. And I agree.
Or maybe the person said something and you do not agree. What can you say in a professional warm way? Well you can say:
- Ech verstinn, wat s du mengs, allerdéngs gesinn ech dat anescht.
- Ech verstinn, wat s du soe wëlls, allerdéngs gesinn ech dat anescht.
So we’ve talked about how to ask for someone’s opinion and we’ve talked about how to acknowledge someone’s opinion, and to say whether we agree or not.
Before we move on with some ways we can give our opinion.
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What are some ways we can give our opinion?
There are 2 ways to express this. Sometimes we say:
- Fir éierlech ze sinn …. – To be honest …
When you hear someone say fir éierlech ze sinn, it’s a signal. It means they’re going to give you their opinion:
👉Fir éierlech ze sinn, fannen ech den neien Logiciel net esou performant ewéi deen alen. – To be honest, I don’t think the new software being as efficient as the old one.
👉Fir éierlech ze sinn, sinn ech méi frou mat Muppe wéi mat Kazen. – To be honest, I prefer dogs to cats.
So fir éierlech ze sinn is really a way to show you’re going to say your opinion you can also say:
- Menger Meenung no …. – In my opinion, ….
👉Menger Meenung no, ass dëst Appartement ganz gutt situéiert. – In my opinion, is this flat well located.
So here you have learnt 2 ways to give your opinion in Luxembourgish. Of course there are other sentences you could use, but it’s better at a level B1 to remember 2 ways and to use / practice those so that when someone asks for your opinion, you’re ready to answer without any hesitation.
