- IPA(key): /ˈnʊʃəln/ (official standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈnʊʒəln/ (more common, at least in the northern half of the language area)
nuscheln (weak, third-person singular present nuschelt, past tense nuschelte, past participle genuschelt, auxiliary haben)
- to mumble (to speak unclearly, with poor enunciation)
Das ist kein Dialekt, das ist nur genuscheltes Hochdeutsch.
- This is not a dialect, it’s just mumbled standard German.
- Nuscheln is distinct from murmeln (“to speak with insufficient audibility”).
- The verbs nuscheln and wuscheln seem to be the only two German words of native origin in which the sound [ʒ] is heard.