That would probably be written "Susu ist super". If the pronunciation ends in 'u' (like in 'soosuh') then it will be written 'u'. As far as I'm aware of, in german the fonetical representation of a vowel is the same as the vowel itself (a part from the strange sings linguist use). I mean, in english "e" would fonetically be written "i" or "a" would be written "ei". It even depends on the word. In german, "a" is always "a" and "e" is always "e", and the same with the other vowels. It's like in spanish (I'm from Spain). In german they might change when two vowels are together (for example, "ei" is pronnounced "ai" and "eu" like in Europa is pronnounced "oi", and it's "oiropa") and there are also some rules with no exceptions (like "-er" sounding "-a"), but in this case no special rules are met here so they are pronnunced just with the same vowel they are written. Anyway, I'm not an expert in philology so I could be wrong or perhaps I'm not explaining myself very well. El Viernes, 12 de Agosto de 2005 01:02, Renegade Penguin escribió:
When it was SuSe there was a commercial that said (phonetically) "Soosuh is Supah." Does that still hold?
Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
I'm not german but I study german for around one year. Under the german pronnunciation rules it would be pronnounced like "soose" in english.
A Suse user, a "suser" would be pronnounced "soosa", since every german word that ends in 'er' is pronnounced ending with an 'a' (like in "grass"). But Suse would be "soose".
El Jueves, 11 de Agosto de 2005 15:32, houghi escribió:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:21:01PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
openSUSE - unless it starts a sentence where you capitalize the word.
Next people will want to know how to pronounce SUSE. Does SUSE have an "official" pronounciation, or is it just the way you like to pronounce it?
If there is an official one, is there a soundclip?
houghi
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