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How do you tell the difference when spoken?
Emphasis on different parts and context.
can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps
would sam altman never survive in germany
Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)
Lots of spiders where you live?
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Good question! Sometimes it's stress but sometimes just context
Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.
In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.