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Re: How do you pronounce Ylva?

by Caprice

11/27/2004, 2:38 PM

Ylva is pr. approximately like you said: ILL-vah. Y is pr. like the German Ü. Ulva is very hard for an English-speaker to pr. It's more like ULL-vuh than OOHL-vah.

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- Lala (guest) +2

11/28/2004, 7:35 AM

a question for caprice

Now would the "ULL" part rhyme with seaGULL? I think I know what sound your trying to show, and I just want to be sure.

Lala

- Caprice +1

11/28/2004, 10:41 AM

Nope, it wouldn't. The U in Ull is more like U in "duh".

- Jo (guest)

4/8/2022, 2:54 PM

In German the double dots over a vowel is written out with an e. So it would be Uell, and in German "when two vowels go walking the second does the talking." So it would sound more like ewe � with a rounded mouth.

Source, my mother is born and raised German, has a green card for US but maintains her citizenship... and I was born there.

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