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| nowneverends Newbie United States Joined 5434 days ago 26 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 2 09 January 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
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I started doing some of Michel Thomas's advanced German (just the review for now since a lot of it is pretty basic for me) and I was wondering about something that I keep hearing in his pronunciation. Every time he says "Ich habe es" I only hear one "e." Is he contracting "habe" to "hab" or do the two just blend together?
Also, while we're on the topic, what do German speakers typically contract? I know geht's is pretty common and I've heard 'nen for einen in songs. Can any German speakers help me out? Danke 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5526 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 2 of 2 09 January 2010 at 3:52pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I think what the speaker you heard was more of a "Ich hab's!" (very common contraction in spoken language). "Es" is quite often contracted, such as in "Ich glaub's nicht!". Other contractions you might encounter are: "Du": "Hastes?" = Hast Du es? "Kommste mal?" = Kommst Du mal? "denn": "Wann hasten (= hast Du denn) das letzte Mal nach der Post geschaut?" "Wann kommsten (= kommst Du denn) mal vorbei?" Some contractions are quite typical for dialects, e.g. the Ruhrpott (region in NRW): "hömma" (= hör mal) "Zeichma" (= zeig mal) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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