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[–] guriinii@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

How do you tell the difference when spoken?

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Emphasis on different parts and context.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps

would sam altman never survive in germany

[–] Hugohase@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily

Lots of spiders where you live?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Good question! Sometimes it's stress but sometimes just context

[–] fneu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.

In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.