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8.7 German words. 8.8 Greek words. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the ...
Krautrock: German-like English name for a variety of German rock; Neue Deutsche Härte (NDH): "New German Hardness"; a genre of German rock that mixes traditional hard rock with dance-like keyboard parts. Recently it has begun to appear in English. Neue Deutsche Todeskunst: "New German Death Art": a movement within the darkwave and gothic rock ...
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
Used in loanwords and transliterations only. Words borrowed from English can alternatively retain the original j or g . Many speakers pronounce dsch as [t͡ʃ] (= tsch ), because [dʒ] is not native to German. dt [t] Used in the word Stadt, in morpheme bounds (e.g. beredt, verwandt), and in some proper names. f [f] g: otherwise
Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation. In popular usage it is an imprecise term for sounds produced relatively far back in the vocal tract, such as the German ch or the Arabic ayin , but not ...
hock (British only) – A German white wine. The word is derived from Hochheim am Main, a town in Germany. nix – nothing; its use as a verb (reject, cancel) [1] is not used in German; synonymous with eighty-six. From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts!
Like all infants, German infants go through a babbling stage in the early phases of phonological acquisition, during which they produce the sounds they will later use in their first words. [109] Phoneme inventories begin with stops , nasals , and vowels ; (contrasting) short vowels and liquids appear next, followed by fricatives and affricates ...