#A WITH UMLAUT PRONOUNCE HOW TO#

#A WITH UMLAUT PRONOUNCE HOW TO#

You see these little guys sometimes in English inВ words like naive or Noel, but often we leave them away becauseвЂ“letвЂ™s get realвЂ“who honestly needs those dots to know how to pronounce the word вЂћcooperateвЂњ properly? This oneвЂ™s for you, snooty fans of The New Yorker: in the word coГ¶perate, the diaeresis is making it clear to the reader that weвЂ™re dealing with a word that has four syllables (CO-op-er-ate) rather than three (COOP-er-ate). Phonological phenomenon 1 вЂ“ diaeresis: when the two little dots are marking a diaeresis or hiatus, it marksВ a vowel letter that is not pronounced as part of a digraphВ or diphthong. The diacritical mark itself is used in several languages to mark two distinct phonological phenomena: The diacritical mark we see in the case of Г„ Г– and Гњ is most commonly referred to as a diaeresis in English, or umlaut or trema (zu Deutsch: Tremazeichen). When I first started discovering foreign languages, I was immediately drawn to all of the beautiful diacritical marks that English orthography lacks (with the exception of words borrowed from French or other foreign languages OR if youвЂ™re reading The New Yorker, which you should). I guarantee it!В And I promise IвЂ™ll give you more to go on than other explanations IвЂ™ve come across (вЂћwell Г– kind of sounds like XXX in the English word XXXвЂњвЂ“Not a helpful way to explain it!) If youвЂ™ve ever asked yourself that question, look no further! Today weвЂ™ll learn all about them AND IвЂ™ll teach you how to pronounce them correctly (in German). But what the heck are the dots anyway, and what exactly do they do?

Since diacritics are largely missing in English, all it takes to make a word look Гјber-adorable is sprinkling a few of them over an otherwise familiar-looking vowel.

Nothing like a few dots to take your boring-looking word from bore to score. We Americans just canвЂ™t get enough of these European-ish little dotsВ (IвЂ™m looking at you, scornfully,В HГ¤agen-Dazs).

A with umlaut pronounce