Help:IPA for Standard German

See Standard German phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of German. For information on how to convert spelling to pronunciation, see German orthography § Grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences.

bod (American)

square (Australian, but more open)

square (Australian but tenser and less open)

law (Irish and American(if without cot-caught merger))

stone (close to American [oʊ] but undiphthongised, Irish, Scottish)

also somewhat close to RP hurt [ɜ] but more fronted

also somewhat close to RP herd [ɜː] but more fronted, Australian nurse but more rounded

also somewhat close to Scottish shoot

also somewhat close to shoes (Scottish, Australian but with tongue further forward)

mate (Irish, Scottish, close to American [eɪ] but undiphthongised)