How to pronounce "Jagd"

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It reminds me of a "Family Feud" greatest moment.

The host asked: "Name a man's name that begins with the letter H"

Contestant hits the buzzer and yells "Jose"

 

I learned my German when I lived in Denmark. Holstein accent. When I went to Bavaria they looked at each other and said "what the hell is this guy trying to say?".

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Don't forget, a German 'w' is pronounced like a 'v'. And a German 'v' is sometimes pronounced like an 'f'. And the letter 's' is pronounced like a 'z' but only if it is found at the beginning of a syllable. And the German 'z' is pronounced like 'ts'. Aw, heck with it.

 

and all the vertbs tend to stack up at the end of the sentence. OTOH what you see is how you pronounce it even if it is 28 letters long. there is no to, too, two auf Deutsch

The schoolbook (or tv reporter) ways is:  Yahgd" only with the trailing "d" sound bitten off into a t, but not enough to sound like a t.

Jagd and Jäger are both from the same German word,  Wew could even say "Ein Jäger jagd." (A hunter hunts.)

You are quite correct, Jagdpanther is "Yahgd'PANT'ehr")  Panzerjäger is "  The truPANZ ehr YAY ge."  The truppen (truh PEN) hauling a PAK for that task would know it as a "PANZ er  ahb WHER  KAHN own en" if recited in full; else it would be "Pah Ah kah."  Unless it wer a FLAK 35, which would be ein "FLAHk DRY SECS" as 3-6 is shorter to say than sechs und dreißig (sex oond' DRY sig).

Germans can be flexible with their abreveiations, too.  The television set is abreviated "TV" and even called "Tea VEE" desipite the German being "teh fowh"; that's because the proper German nae is fehrnzehnapparat, or far-seeing machine.

Oh, and you have to be careful with the vowel dipthongs; in German they all have umlauts--äe, ëo, etc.  These tend to follow Grecco-roamn roots and (sorta) correspond to æ and œ and the like.

Edit to add"  it's Tah MEE yah, and hah-say Jeh wa

It reminds me of a "Family Feud" greatest moment.

The host asked: "Name a man's name that begins with the letter H"

Contestant hits the buzzer and yells "Jose"

Well and then theres the fact that natives of Michigan don't sound like natives of Mississippi. Either would be prone to find the other incomprehensible.

My version sounds like "Yawkt"

Don't forget, a German 'w' is pronounced like a 'v'. And a German 'v' is sometimes pronounced like an 'f'. And the letter 's' is pronounced like a 'z' but only if it is found at the beginning of a syllable. And the German 'z' is pronounced like 'ts'. Aw, heck with it.

Then yagd it is! So jagdpanther  would be pronounced  "yagd-pan-ter". I hear there is no th sound in german.

Yup, it's always been with the "Y" sound to me as well.

In most European languages the "J" is pronounced like an English "Y" (as a consonant- remember in English Y swings both ways, vowel and consonent) so Jagdpanzer is pronounced Yagdpanzer. Then of course there is the umelat thing... the double dots over a vowel, makeing them long vowels in English...