German accent
Bavarian speech pattern
A German accent is the characteristic speech pattern of someone speaking English (or another language) with phonetic features carried over from German—such as pronouncing W as V, hardening soft consonants, or giving vowels a clipped quality.
The term can describe authentic non-native speech or an imitation: He did a terrible German accent in the movie.
German accent also refers to the diacritical marks used in written German, particularly the umlaut.
- BavarianOf a German state
- AustrianFrom the Alpine republic
- gutturalProduced in throat
- harshUnpleasantly severe or rough
- umlautsDouble-dot diacritical marks
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