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28 points

How do you tell the difference when spoken?

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45 points

Emphasis on different parts and context.

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5 points

can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps

would sam altman never survive in germany

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30 points

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

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8 points

for “die spinnen”, i say that probably daily

Lots of spiders where you live?

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7 points

Austr(al)ia

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7 points

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

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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.

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