Ich-Laut

German

Alternative forms

• ich-Laut (officially nonstandard, but very common)
• Ichlaut (recommended by Duden, but quite rare)

Etymology

From ich (“I”, first-person singular prounoun) +‎ Laut (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪçlaʊ̯t/

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Noun

Ich-Laut m (strong, genitive Ich-Lauts or Ich-Lautes, plural Ich-Laute)

1. ich-laut (the voiceless palatal fricative)

   Synonym: stimmloser palataler Frikativ/Reibelaut

Declension

Declension of Ich-Laut [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ich-Laut	die	Ich-Laute
genitive	eines	des	Ich-Lauts, Ich-Lautes	der	Ich-Laute
dative	einem	dem	Ich-Laut, Ich-Laute1	den	Ich-Lauten
accusative	einen	den	Ich-Laut	die	Ich-Laute

¹Now rare, see notes.

Coordinate terms

• Ach-Laut

Descendants

• → English: ich-laut