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in reply to a message by Saana
Oh, teachers ... Being Swedish, I obviously know how to pronounce k by heart, but we were taught which vowels are soft (e, i , y, ä, ö) and which ones are hard (a, o, u, å), but never what it all was any good for. XD
The same rule applies for c and g btw. C is k before hard vowels and s before soft (but that's an international rule), g is g before hard vowels and j before soft. :)
The same rule applies for c and g btw. C is k before hard vowels and s before soft (but that's an international rule), g is g before hard vowels and j before soft. :)
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So this is why gymnasium is pronounced with j! I don't understand why they just couldn't tell us the rules, that would have made things so much easier. The only rule we were taught was that ä is pronounced like e, unless it's before r. (Altough some apparently pronounce är as e...?)
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But in some dialects ä and e never are the same thing, apparently ... And yes, pronouncing är as e is very very common.
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