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Alas, that isn't as true as German's tell me it is, I find. "Weg" <- how do you pronounce this? "Geh weg" (go away) "Der Weg ist da drüben!" (the path is over
by TomAnthony 5y ago
Alas, that isn't as true as German's tell me it is, I find.
"Weg" <- how do you pronounce this?
"Geh weg" (go away)
"Der Weg ist da drüben!" (the path is over there)
- seritools 5y agoWeg != weg, so it's pretty clear. You missed "Gehweg" (sidewalk) though. :^)
- usr1106 5y agoThere are some exceptions, sure. But German pronunciation is 80% simple and regular at least whereas English is more like 80% complicated and irregular.
- pacaro 5y agoCompound words do have the potential to throw this for a loop. The pronunciation is regular if you can decompose the word, but if you miss where the word boundaries are all bets are off. For example "linkshändig"
- usr1106 5y agoThat could be true for some words, but not in your example. "sh" does not exist in any basic German word, so the boundary must be there.
- advanced-DnD 5y agoOnce you learnt the phonetics for the alphabet, you'll find German is pretty consistence. I don't know what you're trying convey in your examples though, because all the example have consistent pronunciation. Inconsistence pronunciation often because it is borrowed words from French (das Experiment (Ex-pe-ri-mo'n?)) or English (das Schedule, informal vocab.)