Natives, please pronounce "Бог"
Can any of you native speakers please show me the weird sounding Г in the word "Бог"? Cause I heard it sounds somewhat like a "kh" or something...
Is there any other word in which the Г sounds like that? Once I heard a guy say "мягкий знак" with that kind of sound, like "myakhkij", but I don't know if he was just being dumb or if it actually sounds like that :P
So natives, please, enlighten me!
Re: Natives, please pronounce "Бог"
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Originally Posted by erika
Can any of you native speakers please show me the weird sounding Г in the word "Бог"? Cause I heard it sounds somewhat like a "kh" or something...
Is there any other word in which the Г sounds like that? Once I heard a guy say "мягкий знак" with that kind of sound, like "myakhkij", but I don't know if he was just being dumb or if it actually sounds like that :P
So natives, please, enlighten me!
Бог is pronounced Бох
Мягкий is pronounced Мяхкий
Re: Natives, please pronounce "Бог"
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Originally Posted by TATY
Бог is pronounced Бох
Мягкий is pronounced Мяхкий
Yay, thanks for the quick response! :wink:
Weird then, I'd never guess Мягкий sounds like Мяхкий...
Apparently there's no rule to find out when a г sounds like х, right?
Re: Natives, please pronounce "Бог"
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Originally Posted by erika
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Originally Posted by TATY
Бог is pronounced Бох
Мягкий is pronounced Мяхкий
Yay, thanks for the quick response! :wink:
Weird then, I'd never guess Мягкий sounds like Мяхкий...
Apparently there's no rule to find out when a
г sounds like
х, right?
These are the only two they tell learners about. I don't think there are others, but maybe there are.
Г devoices to К at the end of words and before other devoiced consonants anyway:
шаг is pronounced шак
And К and Х are very close sounds.
I think when you decline Бог the Г goes back to a G
Like Бога.
Re: Natives, please pronounce "Бог"
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Originally Posted by TATY
Г devoices to К at the end of words and before other devoiced consonants anyway:
шаг is pronounced шак
And К and Х are very close sounds.
I think when you decline Бог the Г goes back to a G
Like Бога.
I agree with TATY, that's what I learned as well.
Another general rule that I was told, was that Г devoices to Х before К
f.ex. легко - I was taught to pronounce леХко
.... but maybe there are exceptions... :?:
I don't think there are an awful lot of words with the -гк- combination anyway, are there? :| :?: