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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

German here. An 'ie' means the 'i' is streatched. So 'Frieden' is pronounced more like "Friden" with long 'i'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So 'Freitag' is pronounced 'free-tag'?

I was taught 'ie' = 'eeee', and 'ei' = 'eye'. For an English speaker, you pronounce the name of the second letter.

When checking Google translate with audio, they pronounce 'Frieden' as 'Free-den'.

If there are exceptions to that rule I'd genuinely like to hear them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fun fact. Both of you are right. Just that the German i is pronounced the same way as an English e.

So the rule of your teacher is right for English people but its just the opposite for us Germans. That explains bluekeys answer.

A German i is pronounced like the first e in the word English. The ie is the same but longer. So Frieden is like freeden. And ei is indeed like eye.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah even decades later my brain still freezes when I say eagle in English because Igel is hedgehog in German and pronounced the same.