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Surely Vase (German) should be spoken as "Vahse" (english phonetic), not with the W sound. I guess you mean the German F and W! That way it's clear.
by kzrdude 4y ago
Surely Vase (German) should be spoken as "Vahse" (english phonetic), not with the W sound.
I guess you mean the German F and W! That way it's clear.
- lisper 4y agoYou are correct. In German, V is F and W is V. There is no W phoneme, except incidentally as in "mauer". I can't imagine a German saying "willage" except perhaps as a joke. In German "willage" would be spelled "uilage" and that would just be really uierd. (Source: I'm a native German speaker, though my family emigrated to the U.S. when I was five so I speak German like a five-year-old who hasn't had much opportunity to practice in a very long time.)
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