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German Audio Request

Sput
27 Words / 1 Recordings / 3 Comments
Note to recorder:

Natural speed please, with a flat tone. Many thanks!

/d/ /t/
finden Fund
Hunde Hund
senden Sand
Bäder Bad
hindern hintern
Sonde sonnte
Seide Seite

/f/ /v/
Vater Wasser
viel wie
voran woran
verging wer ging

Recordings

  • Minimalpaare / Minimal Pairs (9/11) ( recorded by Kimberson ), Standard German

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    finden Fund
    Hunde Hund
    senden Sand
    Bäder Bad
    hindern Hintern
    Sonde sonnte
    Seide Seite

    Vater Wasser
    viel wie
    voran woran
    verging wer ging

Comments

Kimberson
Dec. 5, 2020

Same note as with minimal pairs #8 (-d at the end turning into kinda -t).

For "finden" and "senden" I've recorded the way I'd usually speak it and the way a professional speaker would pronounce it. In the former, the -nden turns into -n'n, -nt'n or -nd'n, depending on the speaker.
You can hear it in some of the examples on Forvo, too: https://forvo.com/word/finden/#de (speakers Vortarulo and Bartleby).
(German speakers on Forvo sometimes enunciate with lots of care, and then, the usual fusing of some sounds is not present, just as a remark.)

Kimberson
Dec. 5, 2020

... I take back the -n'n fusing - on second thought, no, nobody does it THAT extremely.

Sput
Dec. 5, 2020

Yes, the difference in the 'den' ending was one of the things that was driving me up the wall on Forvo! Currently I've just been pronouncing them as d'n, so I'm glad that's the way it's colloquially spoken.

Many thanks for the recording once again!

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