Dachshund.. how do you say that?
Also, I am sure there is an exception to my made up rule, but in general chs = x. If it’s a word made up of words that independently already have the CH-sound, then it stays. For example “wachsam” is pronounced “wach-sam”, so the the chs isn’t seen as being together. German is confusing.
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Like the way you pick up Tate like a large wriggling (German)sausage!
It’s easy to see where the confusion comes. A mother tongue English speaker is more likely to see "ah, there’s a sh in this word" and assume it’s sh as in shout, shine, shape, shopping, sherry… it just always, always, in English, makes a sh sound. So the natural tendency is to instantly "see" it as Dach-shund. Their English-trained brain just assumes that’s where the break in syllables HAS to be. I know mine would if I didn’t know any German.
But in German, you have nouns that end in s. In English we generally don’t because s makes plural (apart from the very few exceptions in -en, formed by ablaut, or formed by no change at all – children, oxen, men, sheep, um I couldn’t think of any more just off the top of my head!) You just don’t get composite words where a word ending in s comes next to a word starting with h. It just looks so unnatural so the brain, so used to English all its life, automatically thinks it must be "Dach-shund".
Come to think of it, English is nowhere so keen as German anyway on forming composite words. It wouldn’t have occurred to us to have a word like "badgerdog". If we’d wanted to call it that, it would be "badger dog". There are foxhounds and sheepdogs, and that about exhausts what I can think of for the moment. There are surely more, but English goes nowhere near as far as German does in being able to do this.
But in German you CAN make words like that. Dachshund. And the correct place to split it is clearly, at least to YOU with your brain that always knew German first, Dachs-hund. Once an English speaker starts learning German and learns ein Hund is a dog, maybe THEN they might see "this has -hund in it so it must be a Dachs-dog". Then they might learn what Dachs means and figure out the whole thing – it was bred for hunting badgers by going down their holes.
Just out of interest, Hund is obviously where the English word "hound" came from. And of course some breeds still are – foxhounds, basset hounds. But why dog replaced it as the general word, nobody knows! – or even where "dog" came from.
That’s two German words i have learnt how to pronounce properly today.Thank you(the other is that i have been saying Dresden wrong all my life.I was told today it’s really pronounced Dreesden.Who knew ? Well not me evidently)
Everybody I know in the UK pronounces it close to the German.
I pronounce it dog.
Thank you. And you pronounce it..Tate?
First.
Wursthund
Brilliant I learned something today.
My aunty told me in German its a Dackel not duchshund Any truth?
Cute dog
In America I heard a lot and until like last year said myself it like “Dotson” („Datzen“) for some reason, but now I say it the full “Dackshund” but with a hard d and not „Dackshunt“ like the original Deutsch, but with both full vowels like the original.
Tate is 11/10 very good boi!
Interesting – didnt know it meant badger dog. In America we say DaK-send. Your new baby is super cute – would love to see more of her. You show her so quickly. You will also love to look back on her documented baby years.
So cute love your dog xx
I say it close to the German pronunciation, but many in the US pronounce the ‘hund’ as if it was ‘hound’.
Why are u so out of breath throughout the video? Are u ok? This is how someone nervous sounds but i know ur not cuz uv been doing youtube for such a long time now☹
My brother’s dog has a little brown above the eyes
I need your number can you give me
They tend to bite, so be careful. Small doesn’t mean harmless. Just saying.
YOURE SOOOO CUTIE!!!! 😀 😀 😀 xxxx cute! 🙂 😛 the dogs kinda cute too!lol 😀 🙂
Do you mind if someone writes a german comment?
Some Germans annoyes it when many people write german comments under their english videos.
How do you see this?
So, /ˈdɑksˌhʊnt/ or /ˈdækˌsənd/
I love your new fur baby. ❤️ I’ll be getting one this year for my birthday. This will be my 4th.