German · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "das Ticket" in German?

Q: How do you pronounce das Ticket in German?

das Ticket is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /das ˈtɪ.kɛt/. It means “ticket (pl. Tickets).” dass TIK-et. Front-stressed, with a full short e in the second syllable rather than the reduced vowel English gives it.

dass TIK-et. Front-stressed, with a full short e in the second syllable rather than the reduced vowel English gives it.

das Ticket /das ˈtɪ.kɛt/

Front-stressed, and the plural Tickets takes an -s ending, which marks the word as a borrowing. Unlike Sport and Park, this one has kept its English stress pattern as well, which happens when the original already matched the German preference.

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Sound it out

T A sharp t with breath behind it.

i A clipped i, the vowel in bin. Keep it loose and short.

ck A single k. The two letters mark the vowel short.

et A short open e and a fully released t. German keeps a real vowel here rather than reducing it.

Hear it in a sentence

Ich habe zwei Tickets gekauft.

I bought two tickets.

Listen: Ich habe zwei Tickets gekauft.

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Ich habe zwei Tickets gekauft is in the perfect tense, with gekauft closing the sentence. The participle carries the unstressed ge- prefix and a fully released final t, and the -s plural on Tickets is one of the few places German uses that ending.

Where English speakers slip

English reduces the second syllable to something like 'it', giving 'TIK-it'. German keeps a full short e, so it is 'TIK-et' with both vowels clearly articulated. That refusal to reduce unstressed vowels is one of the most consistent differences between the two languages, and it shows up starkly in borrowed words.