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Amadee?
by Cassandra113
2/29/2008, 10:59 AM
Is Amadee pronounced ah-mah-dee or ah-mah-day? Or some other way?Thanks so much.
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- Shellac (guest)   +4
2/29/2008, 7:28 PM
The French name Amédée is pronounced ah-may-DAY. Despite the double e ending this is a masculine name in French.
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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)   +3
3/1/2008, 2:23 PM
More like ah-meh-deh. :)
Not "ay" unless you are faking an English accent ;)
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- Shellac (guest)   +2
3/1/2008, 9:22 PM
Well I speak French so I know perfectly well how to pronounce it with accents present. I've heard it spoken in French and it was not ah-meh-deh. If you're trying to pronounce it without the accents then that's a different story.
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- Lumia   +1
3/2/2008, 2:09 AM
Mrs Claire is completely right about the sound of the vowel in French (basically, she is a native speaker). The é represents necessarily [e], that is EH in a figurated English pronunciation.
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- Siri (guest)
3/2/2008, 12:34 PM
Having lived in France for her entire life....
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