The word "tagen" is a German verb meaning "to days." Its phonetic transcription in IPA is [ˈtaːɡən]. The first sound is a long /a/ followed by a hard /g/. The third sound is a schwa /ə/, which is unstressed and barely audible. The fourth sound is again a hard /g/, and the final sound is a voiced /n/. The spelling of the word "tagen" looks slightly different in English than it does in German because English lacks the diacritical marks used in German to indicate pronunciation.