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In several places where I get pronunciations I've come across 45 being pronounced something like fümundvierzig or possibly fünwundvierzig, not the f sound that I would expect. Is this Hochdeutsch and I've just missed this, or is this a regional dialect? Danke!
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In several places where I get pronunciations I've come across 45 being pronounced something like fümundvierzig or possibly fünwundvierzig, not the f sound that I would expect. Is this Hochdeutsch and I've just missed this, or is this a regional dialect? Danke!
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This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday
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In several places where I get pronunciations I've come across 45 being pronounced something like fümundvierzig or possibly fünwundvierzig, not the f sound that I would expect. Is this Hochdeutsch and I've just missed this, or is this a regional dialect? Danke!
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In several places where I get pronunciations I've come across 45 being pronounced something like fümundvierzig or possibly fünwundvierzig, not the f sound that I would expect. Is this Hochdeutsch and I've just missed this, or is this a regional dialect? Danke!
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This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday
add a comment |
This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday
This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday
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Wiktionary is available in more than 150 different languages, and in each language it contains descriptions of the most frequent used words in this language. German Wiktionary has more than 750,000 entries, and there for each word you can find the correct pronunciation.
The page about the word fünfundvierzig says, that there are two proper pronunciations for this word:
- /ˌfʏnf(ʔ)ʊntˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (standard)
- /ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (colloquial)
German Wikipedia has a very good list of all IPA symbols. I think it is much better than the English page. But I will explain what you need here:
The easy consonants:
f = f in "fill"
m = m in "milk"
n = n in "tin"
t = t in "tin"
s = s in "sea"
The other consonants:
ʁ = r in "red".
This one of the three ways to pronounce the letter R in German. The other two are [ʀ] and [r] which both doesn't exist in standard English. In German you always can replace each of them with one of the others. When r is at the end of a syllable (which is the case here), it often is replaced by a schwa sound (symbol: ɐ), like at the end of German jeder which sounds more like the vowel a than like a consonant. (You find ɐ as a writen u in English "nut", but ɐ is always unstressed in German)
ç = ch in German "ich"
Note that ç is not c! (They are symbols for different sounds, but c is neither used in English nor in standard German)
The sound ç doesn't exist in standard English. You need to learn it when you want to learn German.
ʔ
This consonant is a glotal stop. This consonant has no written representation in German or English (but in some other languages like Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic), so many people speaking Germanic languages are not aware that it even exists, but they use it when they speak. In English it is the sound in the middle of "uh-oh" (here represented by a dash) and in German you find it between e and a in "beachten".
The brackets around the consonant mean, that it is optional. So you can speak the standard version of this word with or without a glotal stop.
m̩
Do you see the little vertical line below the letter m? This tiny symbol means, that the sound m here is no longer a consonant. At it's position within the word it behaves like a vowel, and it even is the core of a syllable.
Here, in the colloquial version of this word, m̩ is a syllable on its own.
Now the vowels:
ɪ = i in "ink"
ʊ = oo in "book"
ʏ = ü in German "Nüsse"
This sound does not exist in English. It is used when the letter ü has a short pronunciation. You need to learn it when you learn German.
The other symbols:
( ) = optional
(see ʔ above)
ˈ (ˈxxx) = main stress
The syllable following this symbol is the most stressed syllable of the word
ˌ (ˌxxx) = secondary stress
The syllable following this symbol is stressed, but it is not the most stressed syllable of the word.
I think the standard pronunciation is clear now. (Spaces and underline separate syllables, the underline should express, that fiatsich is spoken in one part):
fünf und fia_tsich
The colloquial version:
füm m fia_tsich
The colloquial version is neither Standard German nor any dialect. It is a level between both of them. Professional speakers don't use this level when they do their job, so it is not part of the standard. But it is so wide spread across the German speaking area that you can't say it was part of a local or regional dialect.
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
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Pronunciation is always a bit different from what spelling would suggest. One can call that sloppy pronuncation, but actually this happens, to some extent, also in totally well-educated pronuncation as e.g. in broadcasting or in theatre.
Examples for sloppy (but very common) pronuncation:
Guten Abend --> Nahmt! (Very sloppy)
Grüß Gott --> Sgott! (Happens only in the South, as only people in the South say "Grüßgott" instead of "Guten Tag".)
Entschuldigung! --> Schullijung!
Können Sie mal halten? --> Könnse mal haltn?
Not sloppy but standard German pronuncation
Lehrer --> Leera [roughly so; actually we would need to use phonetic notation to show the fine nuances; the a is not a full a, it is actually a Schwa vowel]
gehen --> gehn (it is completely normal to leave out the second e)
Schwimmflügel --> schwümmflügl
Your example
fünfundvierzig --> fünn-nfirtsich / fünn-wunfirtsich / fümm-wn-fyrtsych and so on.
This is not dialect. Dialect would e.g. be
fünfundvierzig --> fajwa-fyttsk (Swabian, slightly South of Ulm)
Note that very few language have a full congruence of spelling and pronuncation. Take English! A total mess, actually. Even French is more consistent in its spelling-pronuncation relation than English.
A relatively close relation between spelling and pronuncation is to be found e.g. in Serbian (one of the South-Slavonic language). That's because orthographic rules in this language were designed relatively lately in the 19th century, and purposefully based on how people pronounced things in real life. This was done, of course, at the cost of losing sight of etymology. The capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, meaning "White town", as "bjal" is "white" in Slavonic languages, thus has become "Beograd" in Serbian, where the "o" is foreign to etymology, but people in that region tend to pronounce the "l" quite like what you would actually think is an "o".
Another example for a language with close link between pronuncation and spelling is Turkish (more exactly: the Turkish used in Turkey, as there are other forms of Turkish in neighbouring countries). This is because the spelling rules were created just in the early 1920s, when the country moved from Arabic scripture (as in Ottoman Turkish) to modern Latin scripture including many Umlaut-vowels, especially ü and ö:
Müdürmüsünüz? (Are you the boss?)
You pronounce that exactly like that.
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
1
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
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Words in isolation are pronounced differently from words in context. How big the difference is depends on the speed of articulation and the effort the speaker is making. What kind of modifications are allowed is dictated by the language and may vary from region to region.
The process you noticed is a voiceless consonant [f] becoming voiced [v]. This happens in other contexts as well.
fünfundvierzig [v]
Da muß ich noch drüber nachdenken. [z]
Das hat er doch gesagt. [d]
(Unless your pronunciation is already excellent, I would not recommend emulating this. You should first get the most explicit forms correct.)
As has been mentioned in other answers, there are other modifications.
assimilation of place of articulation: fünf [m], haben [m]
assimilation of voicelessness: hat sich [s] (instead of [z])
assimilation of nasality: eben [mm] (via [bm])
t-elision: Is nich dein Ernst!
Wiktionary's /fʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ for fünfundvierzig is a result of several of these modifications being combined. This is part of the standard language, just as the following is:
Hat er [ɐ] das/es [s] denn gewußt?
As in English, certain words have established weak forms. The first three words of the above sentence are one syllable!
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Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
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This is simply sloppy pronunciation. The right pronunciation is "fünfundvierzig", but in speach, the "nfu" can change to "nwu", because thats ah more fluent tongue/mouth-movement. The ommited r is just a result of mumbling or indistinct speaking.
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Wiktionary is available in more than 150 different languages, and in each language it contains descriptions of the most frequent used words in this language. German Wiktionary has more than 750,000 entries, and there for each word you can find the correct pronunciation.
The page about the word fünfundvierzig says, that there are two proper pronunciations for this word:
- /ˌfʏnf(ʔ)ʊntˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (standard)
- /ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (colloquial)
German Wikipedia has a very good list of all IPA symbols. I think it is much better than the English page. But I will explain what you need here:
The easy consonants:
f = f in "fill"
m = m in "milk"
n = n in "tin"
t = t in "tin"
s = s in "sea"
The other consonants:
ʁ = r in "red".
This one of the three ways to pronounce the letter R in German. The other two are [ʀ] and [r] which both doesn't exist in standard English. In German you always can replace each of them with one of the others. When r is at the end of a syllable (which is the case here), it often is replaced by a schwa sound (symbol: ɐ), like at the end of German jeder which sounds more like the vowel a than like a consonant. (You find ɐ as a writen u in English "nut", but ɐ is always unstressed in German)
ç = ch in German "ich"
Note that ç is not c! (They are symbols for different sounds, but c is neither used in English nor in standard German)
The sound ç doesn't exist in standard English. You need to learn it when you want to learn German.
ʔ
This consonant is a glotal stop. This consonant has no written representation in German or English (but in some other languages like Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic), so many people speaking Germanic languages are not aware that it even exists, but they use it when they speak. In English it is the sound in the middle of "uh-oh" (here represented by a dash) and in German you find it between e and a in "beachten".
The brackets around the consonant mean, that it is optional. So you can speak the standard version of this word with or without a glotal stop.
m̩
Do you see the little vertical line below the letter m? This tiny symbol means, that the sound m here is no longer a consonant. At it's position within the word it behaves like a vowel, and it even is the core of a syllable.
Here, in the colloquial version of this word, m̩ is a syllable on its own.
Now the vowels:
ɪ = i in "ink"
ʊ = oo in "book"
ʏ = ü in German "Nüsse"
This sound does not exist in English. It is used when the letter ü has a short pronunciation. You need to learn it when you learn German.
The other symbols:
( ) = optional
(see ʔ above)
ˈ (ˈxxx) = main stress
The syllable following this symbol is the most stressed syllable of the word
ˌ (ˌxxx) = secondary stress
The syllable following this symbol is stressed, but it is not the most stressed syllable of the word.
I think the standard pronunciation is clear now. (Spaces and underline separate syllables, the underline should express, that fiatsich is spoken in one part):
fünf und fia_tsich
The colloquial version:
füm m fia_tsich
The colloquial version is neither Standard German nor any dialect. It is a level between both of them. Professional speakers don't use this level when they do their job, so it is not part of the standard. But it is so wide spread across the German speaking area that you can't say it was part of a local or regional dialect.
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
|
show 4 more comments
Wiktionary is available in more than 150 different languages, and in each language it contains descriptions of the most frequent used words in this language. German Wiktionary has more than 750,000 entries, and there for each word you can find the correct pronunciation.
The page about the word fünfundvierzig says, that there are two proper pronunciations for this word:
- /ˌfʏnf(ʔ)ʊntˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (standard)
- /ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (colloquial)
German Wikipedia has a very good list of all IPA symbols. I think it is much better than the English page. But I will explain what you need here:
The easy consonants:
f = f in "fill"
m = m in "milk"
n = n in "tin"
t = t in "tin"
s = s in "sea"
The other consonants:
ʁ = r in "red".
This one of the three ways to pronounce the letter R in German. The other two are [ʀ] and [r] which both doesn't exist in standard English. In German you always can replace each of them with one of the others. When r is at the end of a syllable (which is the case here), it often is replaced by a schwa sound (symbol: ɐ), like at the end of German jeder which sounds more like the vowel a than like a consonant. (You find ɐ as a writen u in English "nut", but ɐ is always unstressed in German)
ç = ch in German "ich"
Note that ç is not c! (They are symbols for different sounds, but c is neither used in English nor in standard German)
The sound ç doesn't exist in standard English. You need to learn it when you want to learn German.
ʔ
This consonant is a glotal stop. This consonant has no written representation in German or English (but in some other languages like Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic), so many people speaking Germanic languages are not aware that it even exists, but they use it when they speak. In English it is the sound in the middle of "uh-oh" (here represented by a dash) and in German you find it between e and a in "beachten".
The brackets around the consonant mean, that it is optional. So you can speak the standard version of this word with or without a glotal stop.
m̩
Do you see the little vertical line below the letter m? This tiny symbol means, that the sound m here is no longer a consonant. At it's position within the word it behaves like a vowel, and it even is the core of a syllable.
Here, in the colloquial version of this word, m̩ is a syllable on its own.
Now the vowels:
ɪ = i in "ink"
ʊ = oo in "book"
ʏ = ü in German "Nüsse"
This sound does not exist in English. It is used when the letter ü has a short pronunciation. You need to learn it when you learn German.
The other symbols:
( ) = optional
(see ʔ above)
ˈ (ˈxxx) = main stress
The syllable following this symbol is the most stressed syllable of the word
ˌ (ˌxxx) = secondary stress
The syllable following this symbol is stressed, but it is not the most stressed syllable of the word.
I think the standard pronunciation is clear now. (Spaces and underline separate syllables, the underline should express, that fiatsich is spoken in one part):
fünf und fia_tsich
The colloquial version:
füm m fia_tsich
The colloquial version is neither Standard German nor any dialect. It is a level between both of them. Professional speakers don't use this level when they do their job, so it is not part of the standard. But it is so wide spread across the German speaking area that you can't say it was part of a local or regional dialect.
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
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Wiktionary is available in more than 150 different languages, and in each language it contains descriptions of the most frequent used words in this language. German Wiktionary has more than 750,000 entries, and there for each word you can find the correct pronunciation.
The page about the word fünfundvierzig says, that there are two proper pronunciations for this word:
- /ˌfʏnf(ʔ)ʊntˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (standard)
- /ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (colloquial)
German Wikipedia has a very good list of all IPA symbols. I think it is much better than the English page. But I will explain what you need here:
The easy consonants:
f = f in "fill"
m = m in "milk"
n = n in "tin"
t = t in "tin"
s = s in "sea"
The other consonants:
ʁ = r in "red".
This one of the three ways to pronounce the letter R in German. The other two are [ʀ] and [r] which both doesn't exist in standard English. In German you always can replace each of them with one of the others. When r is at the end of a syllable (which is the case here), it often is replaced by a schwa sound (symbol: ɐ), like at the end of German jeder which sounds more like the vowel a than like a consonant. (You find ɐ as a writen u in English "nut", but ɐ is always unstressed in German)
ç = ch in German "ich"
Note that ç is not c! (They are symbols for different sounds, but c is neither used in English nor in standard German)
The sound ç doesn't exist in standard English. You need to learn it when you want to learn German.
ʔ
This consonant is a glotal stop. This consonant has no written representation in German or English (but in some other languages like Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic), so many people speaking Germanic languages are not aware that it even exists, but they use it when they speak. In English it is the sound in the middle of "uh-oh" (here represented by a dash) and in German you find it between e and a in "beachten".
The brackets around the consonant mean, that it is optional. So you can speak the standard version of this word with or without a glotal stop.
m̩
Do you see the little vertical line below the letter m? This tiny symbol means, that the sound m here is no longer a consonant. At it's position within the word it behaves like a vowel, and it even is the core of a syllable.
Here, in the colloquial version of this word, m̩ is a syllable on its own.
Now the vowels:
ɪ = i in "ink"
ʊ = oo in "book"
ʏ = ü in German "Nüsse"
This sound does not exist in English. It is used when the letter ü has a short pronunciation. You need to learn it when you learn German.
The other symbols:
( ) = optional
(see ʔ above)
ˈ (ˈxxx) = main stress
The syllable following this symbol is the most stressed syllable of the word
ˌ (ˌxxx) = secondary stress
The syllable following this symbol is stressed, but it is not the most stressed syllable of the word.
I think the standard pronunciation is clear now. (Spaces and underline separate syllables, the underline should express, that fiatsich is spoken in one part):
fünf und fia_tsich
The colloquial version:
füm m fia_tsich
The colloquial version is neither Standard German nor any dialect. It is a level between both of them. Professional speakers don't use this level when they do their job, so it is not part of the standard. But it is so wide spread across the German speaking area that you can't say it was part of a local or regional dialect.
Wiktionary is available in more than 150 different languages, and in each language it contains descriptions of the most frequent used words in this language. German Wiktionary has more than 750,000 entries, and there for each word you can find the correct pronunciation.
The page about the word fünfundvierzig says, that there are two proper pronunciations for this word:
- /ˌfʏnf(ʔ)ʊntˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (standard)
- /ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ (colloquial)
German Wikipedia has a very good list of all IPA symbols. I think it is much better than the English page. But I will explain what you need here:
The easy consonants:
f = f in "fill"
m = m in "milk"
n = n in "tin"
t = t in "tin"
s = s in "sea"
The other consonants:
ʁ = r in "red".
This one of the three ways to pronounce the letter R in German. The other two are [ʀ] and [r] which both doesn't exist in standard English. In German you always can replace each of them with one of the others. When r is at the end of a syllable (which is the case here), it often is replaced by a schwa sound (symbol: ɐ), like at the end of German jeder which sounds more like the vowel a than like a consonant. (You find ɐ as a writen u in English "nut", but ɐ is always unstressed in German)
ç = ch in German "ich"
Note that ç is not c! (They are symbols for different sounds, but c is neither used in English nor in standard German)
The sound ç doesn't exist in standard English. You need to learn it when you want to learn German.
ʔ
This consonant is a glotal stop. This consonant has no written representation in German or English (but in some other languages like Arabic, Hebrew or Cyrillic), so many people speaking Germanic languages are not aware that it even exists, but they use it when they speak. In English it is the sound in the middle of "uh-oh" (here represented by a dash) and in German you find it between e and a in "beachten".
The brackets around the consonant mean, that it is optional. So you can speak the standard version of this word with or without a glotal stop.
m̩
Do you see the little vertical line below the letter m? This tiny symbol means, that the sound m here is no longer a consonant. At it's position within the word it behaves like a vowel, and it even is the core of a syllable.
Here, in the colloquial version of this word, m̩ is a syllable on its own.
Now the vowels:
ɪ = i in "ink"
ʊ = oo in "book"
ʏ = ü in German "Nüsse"
This sound does not exist in English. It is used when the letter ü has a short pronunciation. You need to learn it when you learn German.
The other symbols:
( ) = optional
(see ʔ above)
ˈ (ˈxxx) = main stress
The syllable following this symbol is the most stressed syllable of the word
ˌ (ˌxxx) = secondary stress
The syllable following this symbol is stressed, but it is not the most stressed syllable of the word.
I think the standard pronunciation is clear now. (Spaces and underline separate syllables, the underline should express, that fiatsich is spoken in one part):
fünf und fia_tsich
The colloquial version:
füm m fia_tsich
The colloquial version is neither Standard German nor any dialect. It is a level between both of them. Professional speakers don't use this level when they do their job, so it is not part of the standard. But it is so wide spread across the German speaking area that you can't say it was part of a local or regional dialect.
edited 15 hours ago
answered 2 days ago
Hubert SchölnastHubert Schölnast
73.7k7110245
73.7k7110245
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
|
show 4 more comments
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
1
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
Great answer, including the subtle nudge towards Wictionary. From my personal experience only I would add that the two pronunciations mentioned there are on two ends of a spectrum -- between them is a continuum of more or less accurate speech. There is probably also some space on the other side of the colloquial end -- the "m" vowel can slurred/omitted to variying degrees.
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
3
3
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
Hm, I'm not really sure that the two proper pronunciations are actually valid. I hear "fümm-un-vierzig" far more often across Germany than "fümm-vierzig".
– Thorsten Dittmar
2 days ago
1
1
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
And the /ʁ/ is of course subject to vocalization, giving [ˌfʏmm̩ˈfɪ̹͡ɐtsɪç].
– corvus_192
2 days ago
1
1
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
@ThorstenDittmar No, no, it is not "fümm-vierzig", but "füm-m-vierzig", you really have to pronounce the two "m" separately. The second "m" replaces the "und".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
1
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
@ThorstenDittmar You see, there are many variants. In my native dialect, which is Salzburg (Austria), it is "fümfaviaz'g". You clearly hear the combination "-mf-".
– rexkogitans
yesterday
|
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Pronunciation is always a bit different from what spelling would suggest. One can call that sloppy pronuncation, but actually this happens, to some extent, also in totally well-educated pronuncation as e.g. in broadcasting or in theatre.
Examples for sloppy (but very common) pronuncation:
Guten Abend --> Nahmt! (Very sloppy)
Grüß Gott --> Sgott! (Happens only in the South, as only people in the South say "Grüßgott" instead of "Guten Tag".)
Entschuldigung! --> Schullijung!
Können Sie mal halten? --> Könnse mal haltn?
Not sloppy but standard German pronuncation
Lehrer --> Leera [roughly so; actually we would need to use phonetic notation to show the fine nuances; the a is not a full a, it is actually a Schwa vowel]
gehen --> gehn (it is completely normal to leave out the second e)
Schwimmflügel --> schwümmflügl
Your example
fünfundvierzig --> fünn-nfirtsich / fünn-wunfirtsich / fümm-wn-fyrtsych and so on.
This is not dialect. Dialect would e.g. be
fünfundvierzig --> fajwa-fyttsk (Swabian, slightly South of Ulm)
Note that very few language have a full congruence of spelling and pronuncation. Take English! A total mess, actually. Even French is more consistent in its spelling-pronuncation relation than English.
A relatively close relation between spelling and pronuncation is to be found e.g. in Serbian (one of the South-Slavonic language). That's because orthographic rules in this language were designed relatively lately in the 19th century, and purposefully based on how people pronounced things in real life. This was done, of course, at the cost of losing sight of etymology. The capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, meaning "White town", as "bjal" is "white" in Slavonic languages, thus has become "Beograd" in Serbian, where the "o" is foreign to etymology, but people in that region tend to pronounce the "l" quite like what you would actually think is an "o".
Another example for a language with close link between pronuncation and spelling is Turkish (more exactly: the Turkish used in Turkey, as there are other forms of Turkish in neighbouring countries). This is because the spelling rules were created just in the early 1920s, when the country moved from Arabic scripture (as in Ottoman Turkish) to modern Latin scripture including many Umlaut-vowels, especially ü and ö:
Müdürmüsünüz? (Are you the boss?)
You pronounce that exactly like that.
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
1
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
|
show 1 more comment
Pronunciation is always a bit different from what spelling would suggest. One can call that sloppy pronuncation, but actually this happens, to some extent, also in totally well-educated pronuncation as e.g. in broadcasting or in theatre.
Examples for sloppy (but very common) pronuncation:
Guten Abend --> Nahmt! (Very sloppy)
Grüß Gott --> Sgott! (Happens only in the South, as only people in the South say "Grüßgott" instead of "Guten Tag".)
Entschuldigung! --> Schullijung!
Können Sie mal halten? --> Könnse mal haltn?
Not sloppy but standard German pronuncation
Lehrer --> Leera [roughly so; actually we would need to use phonetic notation to show the fine nuances; the a is not a full a, it is actually a Schwa vowel]
gehen --> gehn (it is completely normal to leave out the second e)
Schwimmflügel --> schwümmflügl
Your example
fünfundvierzig --> fünn-nfirtsich / fünn-wunfirtsich / fümm-wn-fyrtsych and so on.
This is not dialect. Dialect would e.g. be
fünfundvierzig --> fajwa-fyttsk (Swabian, slightly South of Ulm)
Note that very few language have a full congruence of spelling and pronuncation. Take English! A total mess, actually. Even French is more consistent in its spelling-pronuncation relation than English.
A relatively close relation between spelling and pronuncation is to be found e.g. in Serbian (one of the South-Slavonic language). That's because orthographic rules in this language were designed relatively lately in the 19th century, and purposefully based on how people pronounced things in real life. This was done, of course, at the cost of losing sight of etymology. The capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, meaning "White town", as "bjal" is "white" in Slavonic languages, thus has become "Beograd" in Serbian, where the "o" is foreign to etymology, but people in that region tend to pronounce the "l" quite like what you would actually think is an "o".
Another example for a language with close link between pronuncation and spelling is Turkish (more exactly: the Turkish used in Turkey, as there are other forms of Turkish in neighbouring countries). This is because the spelling rules were created just in the early 1920s, when the country moved from Arabic scripture (as in Ottoman Turkish) to modern Latin scripture including many Umlaut-vowels, especially ü and ö:
Müdürmüsünüz? (Are you the boss?)
You pronounce that exactly like that.
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
1
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
|
show 1 more comment
Pronunciation is always a bit different from what spelling would suggest. One can call that sloppy pronuncation, but actually this happens, to some extent, also in totally well-educated pronuncation as e.g. in broadcasting or in theatre.
Examples for sloppy (but very common) pronuncation:
Guten Abend --> Nahmt! (Very sloppy)
Grüß Gott --> Sgott! (Happens only in the South, as only people in the South say "Grüßgott" instead of "Guten Tag".)
Entschuldigung! --> Schullijung!
Können Sie mal halten? --> Könnse mal haltn?
Not sloppy but standard German pronuncation
Lehrer --> Leera [roughly so; actually we would need to use phonetic notation to show the fine nuances; the a is not a full a, it is actually a Schwa vowel]
gehen --> gehn (it is completely normal to leave out the second e)
Schwimmflügel --> schwümmflügl
Your example
fünfundvierzig --> fünn-nfirtsich / fünn-wunfirtsich / fümm-wn-fyrtsych and so on.
This is not dialect. Dialect would e.g. be
fünfundvierzig --> fajwa-fyttsk (Swabian, slightly South of Ulm)
Note that very few language have a full congruence of spelling and pronuncation. Take English! A total mess, actually. Even French is more consistent in its spelling-pronuncation relation than English.
A relatively close relation between spelling and pronuncation is to be found e.g. in Serbian (one of the South-Slavonic language). That's because orthographic rules in this language were designed relatively lately in the 19th century, and purposefully based on how people pronounced things in real life. This was done, of course, at the cost of losing sight of etymology. The capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, meaning "White town", as "bjal" is "white" in Slavonic languages, thus has become "Beograd" in Serbian, where the "o" is foreign to etymology, but people in that region tend to pronounce the "l" quite like what you would actually think is an "o".
Another example for a language with close link between pronuncation and spelling is Turkish (more exactly: the Turkish used in Turkey, as there are other forms of Turkish in neighbouring countries). This is because the spelling rules were created just in the early 1920s, when the country moved from Arabic scripture (as in Ottoman Turkish) to modern Latin scripture including many Umlaut-vowels, especially ü and ö:
Müdürmüsünüz? (Are you the boss?)
You pronounce that exactly like that.
Pronunciation is always a bit different from what spelling would suggest. One can call that sloppy pronuncation, but actually this happens, to some extent, also in totally well-educated pronuncation as e.g. in broadcasting or in theatre.
Examples for sloppy (but very common) pronuncation:
Guten Abend --> Nahmt! (Very sloppy)
Grüß Gott --> Sgott! (Happens only in the South, as only people in the South say "Grüßgott" instead of "Guten Tag".)
Entschuldigung! --> Schullijung!
Können Sie mal halten? --> Könnse mal haltn?
Not sloppy but standard German pronuncation
Lehrer --> Leera [roughly so; actually we would need to use phonetic notation to show the fine nuances; the a is not a full a, it is actually a Schwa vowel]
gehen --> gehn (it is completely normal to leave out the second e)
Schwimmflügel --> schwümmflügl
Your example
fünfundvierzig --> fünn-nfirtsich / fünn-wunfirtsich / fümm-wn-fyrtsych and so on.
This is not dialect. Dialect would e.g. be
fünfundvierzig --> fajwa-fyttsk (Swabian, slightly South of Ulm)
Note that very few language have a full congruence of spelling and pronuncation. Take English! A total mess, actually. Even French is more consistent in its spelling-pronuncation relation than English.
A relatively close relation between spelling and pronuncation is to be found e.g. in Serbian (one of the South-Slavonic language). That's because orthographic rules in this language were designed relatively lately in the 19th century, and purposefully based on how people pronounced things in real life. This was done, of course, at the cost of losing sight of etymology. The capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, meaning "White town", as "bjal" is "white" in Slavonic languages, thus has become "Beograd" in Serbian, where the "o" is foreign to etymology, but people in that region tend to pronounce the "l" quite like what you would actually think is an "o".
Another example for a language with close link between pronuncation and spelling is Turkish (more exactly: the Turkish used in Turkey, as there are other forms of Turkish in neighbouring countries). This is because the spelling rules were created just in the early 1920s, when the country moved from Arabic scripture (as in Ottoman Turkish) to modern Latin scripture including many Umlaut-vowels, especially ü and ö:
Müdürmüsünüz? (Are you the boss?)
You pronounce that exactly like that.
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
Christian GeiselmannChristian Geiselmann
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Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
1
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
|
show 1 more comment
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
1
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
Ich versuche "fajwafytsk" auszusprechen und bekomme es einfach nicht hin. In welchem schwäbischen Dorf spricht man das so aus? Bei meiner Oma klingt das mehr nach "Fenfefufzich"
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
@Iris Du hast offenbar eine sehr kultivierte Oma, vielleicht eher aus einem schwäbisch-städtischen Umfeld. Meine fajwa-fyttsk sind aus dem tief-dörflich-bäuerlich-oberschwäbischen Umfeld (etwas südlich von Ulm). - Der Maulwurf heißt dort Aubeddl.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
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PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
PS: Deine Oma sagt für 45 aber sicherlich eher etwas wie fenfafyrzich, nicht etwa fenfafufzich. Letzteres würde mich dann doch sehr wundern.
– Christian Geiselmann
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
Mit dem PS hast du recht. Und südlich von Ulm ist von meiner Oma aus gesehen, die ganz andere Seite von Schwaben.
– Iris
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
@Iris ... und auch dörfliche Gegend der Alb.
– IQV
2 days ago
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Words in isolation are pronounced differently from words in context. How big the difference is depends on the speed of articulation and the effort the speaker is making. What kind of modifications are allowed is dictated by the language and may vary from region to region.
The process you noticed is a voiceless consonant [f] becoming voiced [v]. This happens in other contexts as well.
fünfundvierzig [v]
Da muß ich noch drüber nachdenken. [z]
Das hat er doch gesagt. [d]
(Unless your pronunciation is already excellent, I would not recommend emulating this. You should first get the most explicit forms correct.)
As has been mentioned in other answers, there are other modifications.
assimilation of place of articulation: fünf [m], haben [m]
assimilation of voicelessness: hat sich [s] (instead of [z])
assimilation of nasality: eben [mm] (via [bm])
t-elision: Is nich dein Ernst!
Wiktionary's /fʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ for fünfundvierzig is a result of several of these modifications being combined. This is part of the standard language, just as the following is:
Hat er [ɐ] das/es [s] denn gewußt?
As in English, certain words have established weak forms. The first three words of the above sentence are one syllable!
1
Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
add a comment |
Words in isolation are pronounced differently from words in context. How big the difference is depends on the speed of articulation and the effort the speaker is making. What kind of modifications are allowed is dictated by the language and may vary from region to region.
The process you noticed is a voiceless consonant [f] becoming voiced [v]. This happens in other contexts as well.
fünfundvierzig [v]
Da muß ich noch drüber nachdenken. [z]
Das hat er doch gesagt. [d]
(Unless your pronunciation is already excellent, I would not recommend emulating this. You should first get the most explicit forms correct.)
As has been mentioned in other answers, there are other modifications.
assimilation of place of articulation: fünf [m], haben [m]
assimilation of voicelessness: hat sich [s] (instead of [z])
assimilation of nasality: eben [mm] (via [bm])
t-elision: Is nich dein Ernst!
Wiktionary's /fʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ for fünfundvierzig is a result of several of these modifications being combined. This is part of the standard language, just as the following is:
Hat er [ɐ] das/es [s] denn gewußt?
As in English, certain words have established weak forms. The first three words of the above sentence are one syllable!
1
Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
add a comment |
Words in isolation are pronounced differently from words in context. How big the difference is depends on the speed of articulation and the effort the speaker is making. What kind of modifications are allowed is dictated by the language and may vary from region to region.
The process you noticed is a voiceless consonant [f] becoming voiced [v]. This happens in other contexts as well.
fünfundvierzig [v]
Da muß ich noch drüber nachdenken. [z]
Das hat er doch gesagt. [d]
(Unless your pronunciation is already excellent, I would not recommend emulating this. You should first get the most explicit forms correct.)
As has been mentioned in other answers, there are other modifications.
assimilation of place of articulation: fünf [m], haben [m]
assimilation of voicelessness: hat sich [s] (instead of [z])
assimilation of nasality: eben [mm] (via [bm])
t-elision: Is nich dein Ernst!
Wiktionary's /fʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ for fünfundvierzig is a result of several of these modifications being combined. This is part of the standard language, just as the following is:
Hat er [ɐ] das/es [s] denn gewußt?
As in English, certain words have established weak forms. The first three words of the above sentence are one syllable!
Words in isolation are pronounced differently from words in context. How big the difference is depends on the speed of articulation and the effort the speaker is making. What kind of modifications are allowed is dictated by the language and may vary from region to region.
The process you noticed is a voiceless consonant [f] becoming voiced [v]. This happens in other contexts as well.
fünfundvierzig [v]
Da muß ich noch drüber nachdenken. [z]
Das hat er doch gesagt. [d]
(Unless your pronunciation is already excellent, I would not recommend emulating this. You should first get the most explicit forms correct.)
As has been mentioned in other answers, there are other modifications.
assimilation of place of articulation: fünf [m], haben [m]
assimilation of voicelessness: hat sich [s] (instead of [z])
assimilation of nasality: eben [mm] (via [bm])
t-elision: Is nich dein Ernst!
Wiktionary's /fʏmm̩ˈfɪʁtsɪç/ for fünfundvierzig is a result of several of these modifications being combined. This is part of the standard language, just as the following is:
Hat er [ɐ] das/es [s] denn gewußt?
As in English, certain words have established weak forms. The first three words of the above sentence are one syllable!
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
David VogtDavid Vogt
4,5151229
4,5151229
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Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
add a comment |
1
Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
1
1
Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
Nice examples. To add another contraction, here is a German sentence with "hamsamsam" and "hattatta": "Ham' S' am Samstag Schalke jesehn? Hat dat da jeregnet!"
– Peter A. Schneider
2 days ago
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
"muss" and "gewusst" - please, not with "ß" - it is more than 20 years since.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
Ich schreibe, wie ich es gelernt habe. Das steht mir frei, oder?
– David Vogt
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
@DavidVogt The OP is obviously a non-native speaker, and asks for clarification. IMHO, using orthography which is 20 years obsolete is rather confusing than helpful. BTW, I am 40 yo, so I grew up with the old orthography and learnt the new orthography 2 years before my Matura. I suggest it is time to move on.
– rexkogitans
yesterday
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This is simply sloppy pronunciation. The right pronunciation is "fünfundvierzig", but in speach, the "nfu" can change to "nwu", because thats ah more fluent tongue/mouth-movement. The ommited r is just a result of mumbling or indistinct speaking.
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This is simply sloppy pronunciation. The right pronunciation is "fünfundvierzig", but in speach, the "nfu" can change to "nwu", because thats ah more fluent tongue/mouth-movement. The ommited r is just a result of mumbling or indistinct speaking.
add a comment |
This is simply sloppy pronunciation. The right pronunciation is "fünfundvierzig", but in speach, the "nfu" can change to "nwu", because thats ah more fluent tongue/mouth-movement. The ommited r is just a result of mumbling or indistinct speaking.
This is simply sloppy pronunciation. The right pronunciation is "fünfundvierzig", but in speach, the "nfu" can change to "nwu", because thats ah more fluent tongue/mouth-movement. The ommited r is just a result of mumbling or indistinct speaking.
answered 2 days ago
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This is just ordinary slang in German
– user36785
2 days ago
In Hochdeutsch the 5 is pronounced exactly the same as the 5 in 45.
– Uwe
2 days ago
Fünwunfürzich is what I almost always hear, so it has to be dialect ;-)
– mbx
yesterday
Words can be pronounced differently depending on person or region and you can never ask for uniform pronunciation across the board or for words to always be said as you would expect (think of the word Greenwich in English). In certain Spanish-speaking countries like Uruguay you will hear 'Cómo te schamas?' instead of 'Cómo te llamas?'.
– Tom
yesterday
There is a slight difference, but Germans won't notice it. The second f in fünfundvierzig is pronounced like a v (as in victory or vowel) when followed by a vowel, but the v in vierzig is pronounced like an f: fünvundfiertsik.
– Rudy Velthuis
yesterday