‘family’). Sometimes the second of these syllables carries the main stress in the word:
hygienisch ([hügie:nish] ‘hygienic’).4.4 Where two vowels meet at an internal boundary in a word they are not pronounced as a
single sound but remain in separate syllables, e.g. geehrt ([ge-e:rt] ‘honoured’), geimpft
([ge-imft] ‘inoculated’), beeilen ([be-ailen] ‘hurry’).
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LETTERS AND SOUNDS