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German · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "das Brot" in German?
dass BROHT. A throaty r after the b, a long pure 'oh', and a crisply released t.
The long vowel is the whole of it. The plural Brote adds an unstressed schwa without altering the vowel, and the many compounds built on this root — Brötchen, Butterbrot, Schwarzbrot — keep the primary stress on whichever element comes first, as German compounds always do.
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Ich kaufe frisches Brot.
I'm buying fresh bread.
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Ich kaufe frisches Brot gives the adjective the -es ending for a neuter accusative noun. Frisches begins with an f and a throaty r and has sch in the middle, so the sentence has two uvular r sounds close together, one in the adjective and one in the noun.
Where English speakers slip
The r is the giveaway: an English bunched r in the br cluster sounds immediately foreign. Move it to the back of the throat, where the cluster actually becomes easier. The vowel then needs to be held flat — English speakers let 'oh' glide into a w at the end, which German never does.