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Duden Das Aussprache worterbuch 7 Auflage
Duden Das Aussprache worterbuch 7 Auflage is the seventh edition of Duden’s pronunciation dictionary: the volume that answers, for well over a hundred thousand German words, the question every other dictionary evades — how is this actually said?
German spelling is honest but not complete: stress wanders, vowels lengthen and shorten without marking, foreign words keep foreign sounds, and names obey no rules at all. This dictionary settles each case in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with the stress marked — the standard German pronunciation, word by word, from the house that defines it.
It is written for everyone whose German must be heard to be believed: announcers and actors, singers and teachers, advanced learners and the Germans who argue about pronunciations at dinner — all of whom end the argument here.
A pronunciation dictionary is a court of appeal for the ear. Its entries give each word’s phonetic transcription, its stress, and where needed its variants and origins — including the vast territory where German pronunciation surprises: loanwords from French, English, Italian and beyond, proper names of people and places, abbreviations, and the technical vocabularies of the professions. The seventh edition is the mature form of the work, its word-stock renewed for a century that has added its thousands of new terms. For broadcasters it is a professional instrument; for singing teachers and speech coaches, a foundation; for advanced learners, something rarer than a textbook — certainty. A learner who can spell a word still cannot always say it; this is the book that closes that final gap between the German on the page and the German in the mouth.
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About This Book
Duden defines German in a shelf of volumes; this is the one for the voice. The Aussprachewörterbuch takes the spoken language as seriously as the others take the written — and wherever Germans themselves dispute a pronunciation, its seventh edition is the answer they accept.
What Readers Will Find
Transcriptions for the Word-Stock
The pronunciation of the German vocabulary entire: every headword in IPA transcription, its main stress marked, syllables shown — the information no orthography supplies and every speaker occasionally needs, from the commonest verb to the rarest technical term.
Foreign Words and Names
The dictionary’s hardest jurisdiction: loanwords pronounced between two languages, and the names — German and international, of persons, cities, rivers, firms, and works — whose sayings follow usage, not rules. Here usage is recorded and ruled upon.
Variants and Guidance
Where two pronunciations genuinely live, the entries show both and mark the standard; introductory matter explains the transcription system and the sounds of German, so the book teaches its own use and a measure of phonetics besides.
Key Features
Authority is the feature: this is the reference German broadcasting itself consults. Coverage is the second — the largest doubtful territory, names and loanwords, is its special strength — and the phonetic precision the third: stress, length, and sound, settled to the symbol.
Who This Book Is For
It is for announcers, actors, singers and presenters; teachers of German and of speech; advanced learners polishing an accent; translators and interpreters who must say what they render; and any speaker preparing a name-laden speech, ceremony, or recording.
How to Use This Book
Learn its transcription key first — an hour with the introduction unlocks every entry. Then consult it in the moment of doubt, before the performance, the lesson, the recording: pronunciation checked in advance is confidence banked. Learners can mine it systematically, a page of their own vocabulary at a time, marking the stresses their intuition got wrong — the corrections that most improve a spoken German’s intelligibility.
Related Books
The usage companion is Duden Richtiges Und Gutes Deutsch. The figurative layer is in Deutsche Idiomatik Wörterbuch Der Deutschen.
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