Aussprache-Tipp: sp/st am Wortanfang (Sport, Stadion, Spiel)
Aussprache-Tipp sp/st: 5 Wörter laut lesen + 2 Minimalpaar-Fragen.
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Wie klingt „st“ am Wortanfang im Wort „Start“?
Sag es laut.
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Hints for this Quiz
Think: Start → “Schtart.”
Sag es laut.
In German, st at the beginning of a word sounds like “sht.”
At the start: st → scht.
Sag es laut.
Word-initial st is pronounced like “sht.”
At the start: sp → schp.
Sag es laut.
Word-initial sp is pronounced like “shp.”
Beginning of the word = scht.
Sag es laut.
At the beginning, st → “sht,” so Straße is like “Schtraße.”
Think Sport → “Schport,” Stadt → “Schtadt.”
German pronounces word-initial sp/st as “shp/sht.”
After a vowel or at the end → st stays st.
Inside or at the end (like in bist), st stays “st.” At the start (Stadt, Stimme), it’s “sht.”
End position keeps the clean st sound.
Post ends with st → pronounced “st.” Start/Stuhl begin with st → “sht.”
Beginning sp → schp.
Sag es laut.
Word-initial sp → “shp,” so Sport sounds like “Schport.”
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