INTONATION
Germanic words are usually stressed on the first syllable of their stem, i.e. prefixes and suffixes are not stressed.
Examples in German:
Schule
Geschäft
bekommen
während
Verteidigung
magerer
Eitelkeit
brauchbar
Some prefixes are always stressed: ab, an, auf, aus, bei, ein, empor, fort, los, mit, nach, nieder, un, ur, weg, weiter, wieder.
The following prefixes are stressed if they are the only ones, but not if combined with another prefix: da, dar, her, hin, vor, zu.
Examples in German:
hingehen
hineingehen
herkommen
herüberkommen
vorgehen
vorausgehen
The suffixes ei and ieren are always stressed, miss and wider only in nouns.
Examples in German:
Bäckerei
kopieren
widerstehen
Widerstand
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