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sanitation@lemmy.radio to me_irl@lemmy.world · 13 days ago

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sanitation@lemmy.radio to me_irl@lemmy.world · 13 days ago
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  • msfroh@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    For people who don’t know Dutch, the pronunciation is kind of like “noiken in de koiken”.

    • iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app
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      More like “know ken in duh kow ken” (where “kow” is rhymes with “bow” that you shoot an arrow with).

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        13 days ago

        this person dutches

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      13 days ago

      That’s a very rough approximation (more German than Dutch), but I wouldn’t be able to give a better one using just English spelling without additional hints. In IPA it’s øː (with some regional variation).

      Audio samples:

      • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keuken
      • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuken
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      13 days ago

      N American English doesn’t really have that diphthong though.

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      11 days ago

      That would be the German ‘eu’ pronounced ‘oy’. In Dutch, it’s pronounced like ‘uh’. <nuh-kuh-n>

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      12 days ago

      What kind of idiot doesn’t speak Dutch? Even my nephew speaks Dutch fluently and he’s like 4 years old.

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