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Nope. Two syllables is correct, as you can see by looking at the IPA transliteration, /də ʁjɛ̃/.

• bgilroy26 7y ago
  "j" is a semi-vowel so you're both right!
  • foldr 7y ago
    Could you expand on that? Semivowels don't usually give rise to any uncertainty regarding syllable boundaries. E.g. Spanish 'tieso' clearly has two syllables (though many English speakers would misperceive it as having three), and it also has a semivowel following the initial consonant: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tieso https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tieso
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