• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    The German w sounds like the English v, while the German v sounds like the English (and German) f.

    IPA of the German word “wir”: /viːɐ̯/

    IPA of the English word “with”: /wɪθ/

    I actually had to look it up, but in German the /w/ sound doesn’t really exist? In some dialects the “qu” string is pronounced as /kw/ [according to Wikipedia] but in most it’s pronounced as /kv/ - at least that’s how I’d pronounce it and I’m mostly talking in Standard High German.