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How do you pronounce "das Flugzeug" in German?
dass FLOOK-tsoyk. Two written g's, both hardened to k, and a z pronounced 'ts' in the middle.
The primary beat is on the first element, FLUG-, with -zeug taking a secondary one — the standard German compound pattern. That first-element rule is what tells you a Flugzeug is a kind of Zeug for flying rather than a kind of flying, and the stress does the work of the English word order.
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Das Flugzeug startet in einer Stunde.
The plane takes off in an hour.
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Das Flugzeug startet in einer Stunde has startet opening with 'sht' and carrying an inserted helping e, since its stem ends in t. Einer is dative after in, and Stunde also begins with 'sht' — so the sentence has two of those clusters within four words.
Where English speakers slip
Both g's get voiced by learners reading the spelling, producing 'floog-tsoyg'. German hardens both, and the first one hardens even though it sits inside the word, because the compound seam counts as a syllable end. Add the z as 'ts' and the diphthong as 'oy', and the whole word changes shape.