{"id":13649,"date":"2021-12-10T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:42:29","slug":"die-impfpflicht-comes-to-germany-but-how-do-you-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/die-impfpflicht-comes-to-germany-but-how-do-you-say-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Impfpflicht comes to Germany &#8211; but how do you say that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/does-germany-need-an-impfpflicht\/\">wrote about it almost a year ago<\/a>, it seems like it is finally happening now: The German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/inland\/corona-bundestag-109.html\"><em>Bundestag <\/em>voted for a specific <em>Impfpflicht <\/em>(f, vaccination mandate) today<\/a> &#8211; the first law passed by the new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/how-are-jamaica-and-german-traffic-lights-related\/\"><em>Ampelkoalition <\/em>(f, traffic light coalition)<\/a>!. This affects first and foremost <em>die Pflegekr\u00e4fte <\/em>(caregivers) in places like\u00a0nursing homes and hospitals. But let&#8217;s circle back to that word,\u00a0<em>Impfpflicht<\/em>. How do you say that?<\/p>\n<h1><em><strong>Impfpflicht\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>&#8211; it all depends on where the\u00a0<em>pf\u00a0<\/em>is!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMPFPFLICHT: Pflegeverbandschefin Bienstein warnt vor Pauschal-Verurteilungen | WELT Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VHD3J3zjCKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously discussed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/pf-pf-pf-whats-up-with-that\/\"><em>pf<\/em> sound and how to pronounce it<\/a>. In short, you barely pronounce that\u00a0<em>p\u00a0<\/em>if\u00a0the\u00a0<em>pf\u00a0<\/em>is at the beginning of a word. So a word like\u00a0<em>Pferd<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Pflege\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Pflicht\u00a0<\/em>will have that slight\u00a0<em>p\u00a0<\/em>sound. Many people don&#8217;t really pronounce it though, and it sounds more like\u00a0<em>Ferd, Flege,\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Flicht<\/em>. If you do that, everybody will still understand you!<\/p>\n<p>When you encounter\u00a0<em>pf\u00a0<\/em>in a word, especially at the end, you pronounce both letters:\u00a0<em>Kopf, Impfung, Stampf<\/em>. Pretty straightforward. The video above gives you these kinds of words A LOT.\u00a0<em>Das <\/em><em>Pflegepersonal\u00a0<\/em>(care personnel),\u00a0<em>die Impfpflicht\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>die Pflegeberufe\u00a0<\/em>(caretaking professions).<\/p>\n<p>But the thing that makes\u00a0<em>Impfpflicht\u00a0<\/em>special is that double\u00a0<em>pf<\/em>. This is because\u00a0<em>die Impfpflicht\u00a0<\/em>is a compound noun of the root of\u00a0the verb\u00a0<em>Impfen\u00a0<\/em>and the noun\u00a0<em>die Pflicht<\/em>. That&#8217;s when you get\u00a0<em>Impf-pflicht<\/em>. And Germans are notorious for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/two-of-the-longest-words-in-german\/\">not breaking up or using hyphens in their compounds.<\/a> So the regular German doesn&#8217;t even scoff at that double\u00a0<em>pf<\/em>. Strange double or even triple letters (how about a piece of <em>Nussschokolade <\/em>(nut chocolate)?) happen all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, how do you say <em>Impfpflicht<\/em>?<\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>Die Impfpflicht<\/em> and taking breaks<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_13651\" style=\"width: 829px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/mAGZNECMcUg\" aria-label=\"Daniel Schludi MAGZNECMcUg Unsplash 819x1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13651\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13651\"  alt=\"Corona Impfpflicht pronouncing how to say COVID German bundestag\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-819x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@schluditsch?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Daniel Schludi<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/covid?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"640\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/Impfpflicht.mp3'>Impfpflicht<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/Impfpflicht.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Impfpflicht\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Recording\\\". Released: 2021.\",\"meta\":{\"year\":\"2021\",\"length_formatted\":\"0:05\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>What makes this word tricky is that the\u00a0<em>pf\u00a0<\/em>sound at the beginning of a word requires you to transfer into an f from a p &#8211; not something that&#8217;s common in German, especially not without a break in between. Saying that\u00a0<em>pf\u00a0<\/em>sound is hard enough by itself, let alone with a word strapped to the front of it. So a great way to fix this is to just take a little break between the two words, so like this:\u00a0<em>Impf_Pflicht<\/em>. That&#8217;s how I say it in my first recording above. This is a great tip for many longer words in German, by the way! The only problem? It doesn&#8217;t really flow that well.<\/p>\n<p>And while they might not shy away from taking their time to pronounce words clearly in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/a-little-cringe-germanys-youth-word-2021\/\"><em>Tagesschau<\/em><\/a>, the regular German definitely doesn&#8217;t like doing this because it takes too long.<\/p>\n<p>So they just resort to the second way: Simply pronounce\u00a0<em>Pflicht\u00a0<\/em>like\u00a0<em>Flicht<\/em>. That way,\u00a0<em>Impf<\/em> almost naturally flows into\u00a0<em>Flicht<\/em>, as you go from an f to another f. Perfect!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you seen other words like this, or have you struggled saying German words? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"280\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-280x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Corona Impfpflicht pronouncing how to say COVID German bundestag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/daniel-schludi-mAGZNECMcUg-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p>While we wrote about it almost a year ago, it seems like it is finally happening now: The German Bundestag voted for a specific Impfpflicht (f, vaccination mandate) today &#8211; the first law passed by the new Ampelkoalition (f, traffic light coalition)!. This affects first and foremost die Pflegekr\u00e4fte (caregivers) in places like\u00a0nursing homes and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/die-impfpflicht-comes-to-germany-but-how-do-you-say-that\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,8,179,122,11],"tags":[532859,529261,510876,551837,551768],"class_list":["post-13649","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-language","category-news","category-politics","category-pronunciation","tag-corona-virus","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-impfpflicht","tag-pronunciation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions\/13654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}