German · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "morgen" in German?

Q: How do you pronounce morgen in German?

morgen is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈmɔʁ.ɡn̩/. It means “tomorrow.” MOR-gn. A short o coloured by the throaty r, then a hard g collapsing onto a syllabic n.

MOR-gn. A short o coloured by the throaty r, then a hard g collapsing onto a syllabic n.

morgen /ˈmɔʁ.ɡn̩/

The punch lands on MOR- and the ending disappears into a hum. As an adverb meaning tomorrow it often goes unstressed in the sentence, while as the noun der Morgen, meaning morning, it takes more weight — but the two are pronounced identically, and only the capital letter and the context separate them in writing.

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Sound it out

m The m of English, unchanged.

or A short rounded o with the uvular r behind it, blending into the vowel rather than sounding separately.

g A hard g, voiced because a syllable begins here rather than ending.

en Reduces to a syllabic n, so the word ends 'gn'.

Hear it in a sentence

Bis morgen!

See you tomorrow!

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Bis morgen! is a fixed farewell, literally 'until tomorrow'. Bis ends in an unvoiced s and morgen collapses its ending, so the whole phrase runs 'biss MOR-gn' with no full vowel after the stressed one. It is a set piece, best learned as a single rhythmic unit.

Where English speakers slip

Learners stretch the o toward the English word more, adding length and an r that German does not want here — the vowel is short, and the r merely darkens it. The ending is the other correction: giving -gen a full vowel makes the word sound carefully spelled out, when German lets the n take over the syllable entirely.