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ie and ei is a homophone?

• pohuing 4y ago
  No, listen to them on wikitionary: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wein https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wein
• omnibrain 4y ago
  Not in German. "ie" means just a long "i", "Krieg" is pronounced "Kreeg". "ei" ist pronounced like "ay" in "aye aye captain". So "Teil" is "Tayl".
• haunter 4y ago
  Not in german
• alistairSH 4y ago
  No, they have distinct sounds. Eisenhower (US President). Ai-suhn-hau-ur VS Riesling (grape variety). Ree-sluhng But, the sounds of individual vowels in German are different than English. I think the below is correct (based on the 2 years of German I took in college 20+ years ago, so YMMV)… German short I = English short I German long I = English long E German short E = English short E German long E = a sound that English doesn't have