Hellooo, German speaker,

I've been teaching myself German for the past weeks (barely on Present Tense: e, en, st,t, t, en;yes yes, I'm slow), and I came across the word "weg;"

My questions is: is the word's pronunciation "vek" or "veeg" or "veek?" I know if a vowel is followed by "1" consonant, it's long; and short if it's followed by "2;" am I right about that?

BUT! I went to www.forvo.com for the pronunciation and I was given two pronunciations, both of which are the first two I mentioned. Is the word pronounced just one way, or is it interchangable?

And the same question for the verb "gehen" in the third person/second person plural, "Geht." Is it pronounced "Geet" or "Geyt."

Realllly appreciate an answer!

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vek

get (with a "e" a bit longer than the English pronunciation of "get")

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Originally posted by d-miurge vek get (with a "e" a bit longer than the English pronunciation of "get")

Thanks!

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Originally posted by d-miurge vek get (with a "e" a bit longer than the English pronunciation of "get")

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Originally posted by R.j. Thanks!

As long as you don't teach yourself to understand Tokio Hotel's lyrics it's ok.

Weg has a short vowel when it means "away" and a long vowel when it means "way": that's why you were given two pronunciations.

(I may have mixed up the meanings, but you get the idea)

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Last edited by Lira on Jul-13-2009 at 01:04

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Originally posted by Lira Weg has a short vowel when it means "away" and a long vowel when it means "way": that's why you were given two pronunciations. (I may have mixed up the meanings, but you get the idea)

Ah! So the confusion begins. I read about this sort of thing in Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language." I kind of see his essay as a sort of primer.

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Originally posted by R.j. Ah! So the confusion begins. I read about this sort of thing in Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language." I kind of see his essay as a sort of primer.

Nah, German is not that hard. I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with stress (nouns tends to have the main stress in languages such as German/English), and writing systems are far from perfect in any language.

If you can write in English, the writing (with the Latin Alphabet) of most other languages must be a piece of cake

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Originally posted by R.j. Ah! So the confusion begins.

Lira is right, of course. But it's easy to tell the two apart, since "der Weg" (the way) is written with a capital W.

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i used to study Deutsch a long time ago. then I gave up

So if you're talking about 'which way' you'd pronounce it 'veyg' instead of 'vek'..


Welcher Weg soll Ich gehen. (which way should i go)
Ich gehe weg heute. (I'm going away today)


Probably have mistakes in there. It's been 14 years since i lived in germany.