The German Consonant: L
The German letter 'l' is another letter that is pronounced exactly as its English counterpart, whether its at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
Click on the examples in the table below to hear how words containing the letter 'l' are pronounced in the German language.
|Examples with Pronunciation|
|Letter 'l' in initial position|
|Lächeln - smile||Laken - bed sheet||leid - sorrow|
|lockig - curly||lieben - to love||lügen - to tell lies|
|Letter 'l' in medial position|
|Abhilfe - remedy||helfen - to help||Athlet - athlete|
|Blume - flower||Silber - silver||gelb - yellow|
|Letter 'l' in final position|
|Nebel - fog||Achsel - shoulder||Apfel - apple|
|dunkel - dark||Vogel - bird||manchmal - sometimes|
See! You already knew how to pronounce the German 'l' !
You will later find that most of the other German letters are pretty similar to their English counterparts as well.