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It's actually not always clear. There are "Einkommensteuer" und "Einkommenssteuer" and you could write and pronounce them either way. Same for "Bahnhofstraße" a
by tauchunfall 3y ago
It's actually not always clear. There are "Einkommensteuer" und "Einkommenssteuer" and you could write and pronounce them either way. Same for "Bahnhofstraße" and "Bahnhofsstraße". But yeah, I guess these are some rules that developed around the practice of writing words together.
It's also interesting when you split up the words. For instance "gebrandmarkt" results in "brand gemarkt". So you extract the "brand" from "ge-...markt".
- eru 3y agoYour corner cases are mostly about compounds where the next word starts with an s or sch sound. There's also selbständig vs selbstständig, where both variants exist with speakers of the language, and 'official' German picked first one and later the other variant as the 'official' one. > It's also interesting when you split up the words. For instance "gebrandmarkt" results in "brand gemarkt". So you extract the "brand" from "ge-...markt". English has a similar mechanic: "Let's upcycle this trash!" "I boot up my computer." "We spruce this place up."