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It even makes sense, because you do pronounce the g in words like "finger", it just becomes silent at the end of the word. In German "ng" is always without a d
by wirrbel 7y ago
It even makes sense, because you do pronounce the g in words like "finger", it just becomes silent at the end of the word.
In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and g like "Ungeheuer")
- lqet 7y ago> In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and g like "Ungeheuer") Depends on the dialect. For example, older speakers of Swabian may totally say "Feng-ger" to "Finger", as opposed to the more "modern" Swabian variant of "Fenger".
- petecox 7y agoWikipedia calls it 'ng coalescence'. "This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#NG-coalescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Engl...
- rootbear 7y agoMy chorus director in college was always trying to get us to not use the /g/ when singing German. He often used the finger/singer analogy to explain the difference.