Prononciation Flashcards
When the letter “B” appears at the end of a word or prefix is sounds like …?
“P”
gelb (GELP) - yellow
absagen ( AHP-zah-gen) - to cancel
abfahren (AHP-fah-ren) - to depart
When “D” appears at the end of a word or prefix it sounds like .. ?
"T" Kind - KINT Hund - HUNT Deutschland - DOITCH-lunt Abend - AH-bent
When the letter “G” appears at the end of a word or prefix it sounds like …?
Exception: ng sounds like …?
"K" weg- VAYK ( path) lag - LAHK ( lay) trug - TROOK (wore) weglaufen - VEHK-low-fen ( to run away)
jung - YOONG
ß - Ess Tset
Used after …..?
SS
Used after …?
ß - Ess Tset - after long vowels and dipthongs
SS - after short vowels
AA
ah as in “ father”
Saal - ZAHL( hall, saloon)
AU
ow as in cow
Frau - FROW
EU
oi as in toil
Heu - HOI (hay)
neu - NOI (new)
neuer - NOI-er (newer)
Ä - A umlaut
oi as in toil
FROI- line
EI
i as in high
klein - KLINE (small)
IE
ee as in feet
tief - TEEF ( deep)
EE
ay as in say
Tee - TAY (Tea)
ER
air as in stair
merken - MAIR- ken ( to notice)
ER (at the end of words only)
Sounds like uh as in father Messer - MESS-uh (knife) Bilder - BILL-duh (pictures) Junker - YOONK-uh (titled landowner) oder - OH-duh (or)
OO
Sounds like o as in “home”
Boot - BOTE (boat)
CH (soft ch)
Commonally used after e, i , ei, ie, eu, äu, ö.
Soft ch is similar to h as in “human”
Ich - EECH (I)
CH (gutteral ch)
Generally used after the vowels a, o, u, and au.
Gutteral CH as in Scottish loch Koch - KOCH (cook) Buch - BOOCH (book) Nachts - NAHCHT (night) nicht - NIHCHT (not)
CHS
X as in “wax”
sechs - ZEHKS (six)
TSCH
ch as un church
Deutschland - DOITCH-lunt (Germany)
Tschüss - CHUSS - goodbye
SCH
sh as in "shush" Schuh - SHOO (shoe) Schüler - SHUE-ler (student) Schwester - SHVESS-tuh (sister) schwarz - SHVARTZ (black)
SP
shp
Sport - SHPORT (sport)
ST
sht
stark - SHTARK (strong)
Stehen - SHTAY-en (to stand)
TH
t as in “Tom”
Bibliothek - beeb-lee-oh-TAKE (library)
PF
pf as in “top fin”
Pferd - PFERD (horse)
Pfennig - PFENN-ik
Pfeffer - PFEFF-uh (pepper)
TZ
Sounds like ts as in “its”
Hitze - HITS-eh (heat)
“h” directly following a vowel is often ..?
often silent
gehen - GAY-en (to go)
Sehen - ZAY-en (to see)
stehen - SHTAY-en (to stand)
