Dutch · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "morgen" in Dutch?

Q: How do you pronounce morgen in Dutch?

morgen is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/. It means “tomorrow.” MOR-khuh — short rounded o under the stress, the harsh g in the middle, and the final n dropped.

MOR-khuh — short rounded o under the stress, the harsh g in the middle, and the final n dropped.

morgen /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/

Weight at the front, second syllable near-empty. Worth noting: this word means both tomorrow and morning, and neither meaning changes the stress — only context distinguishes them, as in "morgenochtend" where both senses appear in one word.

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Sound it out

m Lips closed, voice on, released into the vowel.

or Short rounded o followed by a light r. Keep them as two distinct sounds; English merges them into a single r-coloured vowel.

g Velar friction sitting between the r and a schwa. It softens slightly in this position but must still scrape audibly.

en A weak closing syllable that reduces to a schwa, with the n gone in ordinary speech.

Hear it in a sentence

Tot morgen!

See you tomorrow!

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"Tot morgen!" is a complete farewell, built on the same "tot" pattern as "tot ziens." The preposition is unstressed and the noun takes the whole beat, so the phrase has a clear rising-then-falling shape across two words.

Where English speakers slip

The English "morgen" as a loanword and "morning" both encourage a hard g. It is a fricative. The "or" is the second issue: American speakers produce a single r-coloured vowel, when Dutch wants a rounded o followed by a separate light r. Together those two fixes transform the word.