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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Standard German on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
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
The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud, letter-by-letter, and how the spelling words should be pronounced for use by the Allies of World War II.
A marble cake (German: Marmorkuchen, pronounced [ˈmaʁmoːɐ̯ˌkuːxn̩] ⓘ), or Marmor (German: [ˈmaʁmoːɐ̯] ⓘ lit. ' marble ')) is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. [1] Due to its zebra-striped pattern, it is also called zebra cake.
The word zebra was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel, ... German colonial officers in East Africa tried to use zebras for both driving and riding, ...
A neigh (listen ⓘ) is the sound made by horses, horse hybrids such as the hinny, and other equines, such as the zebra.It consists of a succession of jerky sounds, initially high-pitched and gradually lower.
For other foreign words, both the foreign spelling and a revised German spelling are correct such as Delphin / Delfin [13] or Portemonnaie / Portmonee, though in the latter case the revised one does not usually occur. [14] For some words for which the Germanized form was common even before the reform of 1996, the foreign version is no longer ...