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Thérèse Liotard, French actress.
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Gender: Feminine
Usages: Norman
Meaning: Norman form of Theresa.
https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_d%C3%A9_Lisieux
(Information from name #264522 originally submitted by an anonymous user)
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Usages: Norman
Meaning: Norman form of Theresa.
https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_d%C3%A9_Lisieux
(Information from name #264522 originally submitted by an anonymous user)
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The Picard form of Thérèse is Théréséda.
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My grandmere's name was Therese. She was born and lived in France her whole life. She pronounced it Tay Rez. NOT Thay Rez! If you people are not French please try not to act as if you're experts! It's insulting and annoying.
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My name is Thérèse and I wanted to comment on that post up above that said
'My grandmere's name was Therese. She was born and lived in France her whole life. She pronounced it Tay Rez. NOT Thay Rez! If you people are not French please try not to act as if you're experts! It's insulting and annoying.'
― Dominique
Dominique, maybe you should have your grandmere come comment on here because you cannot be a true expert on a thing if you are not that thing. Even if you and your grandmere are really close, you are not her. I used to find it really annoying when people pronounced it the American way, TER-ees but now I have gotten used to it and your grandmere probably has too. I would correct them, they would say TER-ees. I would do it one more time. And they would finally put emphasis on the 'z' sound and say TER-ezz. I do not bother them pronouncing it the completely right way, which is TAIR-ezz unless they are really close friends or family members that I will know for the rest of my life. I do not take it as insulting but it is sometimes annoying. It is not their fault, they are just doing their best way of pronouncing it and please do not expect them to get it right right away. I love the name Thérèse and I do not really like the name Theresa. Even though you have to be trained to type Thérèse on a keyboard, it pays off. It is really unique and rare. It is not very insulting to me at all because I have heard harder names, like Cizsahiah to pronounce.
Also, mariej2, I agree with you.
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'My grandmere's name was Therese. She was born and lived in France her whole life. She pronounced it Tay Rez. NOT Thay Rez! If you people are not French please try not to act as if you're experts! It's insulting and annoying.'
― Dominique
Dominique, maybe you should have your grandmere come comment on here because you cannot be a true expert on a thing if you are not that thing. Even if you and your grandmere are really close, you are not her. I used to find it really annoying when people pronounced it the American way, TER-ees but now I have gotten used to it and your grandmere probably has too. I would correct them, they would say TER-ees. I would do it one more time. And they would finally put emphasis on the 'z' sound and say TER-ezz. I do not bother them pronouncing it the completely right way, which is TAIR-ezz unless they are really close friends or family members that I will know for the rest of my life. I do not take it as insulting but it is sometimes annoying. It is not their fault, they are just doing their best way of pronouncing it and please do not expect them to get it right right away. I love the name Thérèse and I do not really like the name Theresa. Even though you have to be trained to type Thérèse on a keyboard, it pays off. It is really unique and rare. It is not very insulting to me at all because I have heard harder names, like Cizsahiah to pronounce.
Also, mariej2, I agree with you.
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My name is Thérèse (note accents) and it has always been pronounced ta-RAZE. Obviously this is the way I prefer it to be pronounced and my French friend told me that this was probably the closest English equivalent to the French. Maybe this is just the Aussie way to say it, but I like it- it's an absolutely gorgeous name.
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Marie Therese (1783-1783) was the daughter of King Charles X of France and his wife Maria Teresa.
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Marie Thérèse was the oldest daughter of King Louis XV and his wife Marie Antoinette. She was the only of her family to survive the French Revolution.
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Thérèse (1736-1744) was the daughter of King Louis XV of France and his wife Maria Karolina.
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Marie Thérèse (1667-1672) was the daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his wife Maria Teresa.
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It is a beautiful name. St. THÉRÈSE has been a role model for me since I can remember. The accents make it more pronounced as a French name. Without the accents it would not bear the same pronunciation. It is very classic and mature but also fit for young children.
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Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine; born 10 June 1982) is the youngest child and second daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden.
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In the French spelling of Therese, the first accent over the first e is called accent aigu, which means acute. It is pronounced shortly and bright. The second accent over the second e is called an accent grave, which is almost but not quite a hard A. The correct pronunciation of Therese is ta-rez. It is also often pronounced Ta-Raiz. It is hard for English speakers to get it just right. But I have never heard Tay-rez, that is clearly incorrect, as is thay-rez.
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My interpretation of your pronunciation can't be right - I'm perceiving your prescribed pronunciation to be "tar" (as in English) with an "ez" (as in "fez") ending. Please correct me if that shouldn't be the case.
Alternatively, I have a feeling you might be using the letter "A" to denote a vowel that should be pronounced in exactly the same manner, in which case we'd both be correct; I was following the pronunciation guide, and hence denoted the first vowel as an "ay" - it's closest to that, or so I feel.
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Alternatively, I have a feeling you might be using the letter "A" to denote a vowel that should be pronounced in exactly the same manner, in which case we'd both be correct; I was following the pronunciation guide, and hence denoted the first vowel as an "ay" - it's closest to that, or so I feel.
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"Thérèse" may also be pronounced "thay-REZ" (note the inclusion of the "h" - implies that it isn't a silent "h"). (The letter "é" should be pronounced with an "ay" sound, while "è" is pronounced almost like the word "air".)
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Thérèse DeFarge was a villain in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickins; her father and her older brother and sister murdered by the Marquis St. Evremonde, Therese vows revenge on the whole family of St. Evremonde, even upon the nephew of the Marquis, Charles Darnay, and his wife, Lucie Manette-Darnay (who is pregnant with their child), who are innocent of crime; Mme. DeFarge's reasoning being the the sins of the parents will pass on to their children, although she ultimately fails to see the true evil that her desire for revenge has released from her.
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Beautiful name, but if I named my child this name I wouldn't use the accent marks.
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Trendy name of the 1980's in Sweden, spelled in a hundred different ways. Tessan is a common nick name.
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Actually, judging by the placement of the accents, it should sound a bit more like TAY-res (instead of -rez), but I could be wrong.
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Correct French pronunciation is ter-EZ.
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I'm pretty sure it is tay-REZ. I like this name better than Theresa.
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I am positive that it's pronounced ter-EZ.
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The name of saint Therese of Lisieux. She was French and a Carmelite nun. She is often associated with roses.
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The feminine form of the Greek name Teiresias (Teereseeas in Greek), a famous oracle of Greek mythology.
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