A German Grammar Author:Charles Harris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 73. £ is like ks (English x in box); as, 2lft, £e?e, £enopf)on. 74. 5 and $ are like to in ww'fo; as, Jtefjen, ju, §ie. 76. Foreign Words, if fully natural... more »ized, follow the rules for German words. If they are still felt as foreign, speakers try to give them their foreign pronunciation. Between these two extremes lie many words whose pronunciation is neither wholly German nor wholly foreign. A number of comments have been made about such words in the foregoing paragraphs. Other details must be left to the dictionary. Accent 76. Only word accent can be considered here, and that only in a brief and elementary way. The important subject of sentence accent does not lie within the scope of such a grammar as this. We may ignore minor variations of word accent and consider only primary (') and secondary (v) accent. Unaccented syllables need not concern us. 77. Simple Words. Simple native words, with a very few exceptions, and also fully naturalized foreign words have the chief stress on the first syllable, which is also the root-syllable (§ 661); as, loben, SBater, genfter. 78. Derivatives, i. Words formed with the aid of a native suffix have the chief stress on the first syllable; as, folgfam, Jreifjett, tiaterlid). A very few words have shifted the stress; as, leben'btg, instead of le'bmbtg. The suffix ordinarily has the secondary accent, as in folg'fam Endings of inflection and the suffixes whose vowel is e are unaccented; as, lobet, golben. But suffixes of foreign origin commonly have the primary accent, even when added to German stems; as, haufte'ren, Sadferet'. For the distinction made between derivative and compound words in this book see § 689. 2. A prefix may or may not have the chief stress: (a) The inseparable prefixes be, emp, ent, er, ge, ber, and je...« less