Vowels
These kinds of vowels occur before multiple consonants in a word.
What are open and short vowels?
This is how closed and long ü is IPA’d.
This occurs at the beginning of words that begin with a vowel.
What is a glottal stop?
This is how z is pronounced.
What is [ts]?
This should be used after the first vowel in a diphthong to signify it’s length.
What is a colon?
These kinds of vowels occur when the vowel is doubled.
What are closed and long vowels?
This umlaut letter is pronounced as [ε] or [ε:].
What is ä?
This German letter does not appear in the English alphabet.
What is sharp s?
This is how an initial or intervocalic s is pronounced.
What is [z]?
This diphthong results from the letters au.
What is [a:o]?
What is the letter h?
This IPA symbol represents the mix of vowels [I] and [ʊ].
What is [Y]?
This sound occurs when ch follows another consonant.
What is an ichlaut?
This is how -er is pronounced when unstressed in a word.
What is [ɐ]?
These two letter combinations create the diphthong [a:e].
What are ai and ei?
What is the letter x?
This is how open and short ö is IPA’d.
What is [œ]?
This sound occurs when ch follows the diphthong au.
What is an achlaut?
This is how s is pronounced when before t or p at the beginning of a word.
What is [ʃ]?
This is the only instance in which a vowel is silent in German.
What is the e in -ie.
This vowel is open in unstressed endings when followed by a g or k.
What is the letter I?
This IPA symbol represents the mix of vowels [o] and [e].
What is [ø]?
This letter combination is pronounced [Iç] when ending a word.
What is -ig?
These three consonants become unvoiced when they are ending a word or syllable.
What is b, d, and g?
These two letter combinations create the diphthong [ɔ:Y].
What are eu and äu?