How to pronouce Apfelwein
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app fell vin
Ap fel vine to me.
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medusa1066
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Apfel
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wein
My guess is that a "real" German says able similar to the way accents work in the US. You can tell if someone is from the South US; A German could tell you were an "Ausländer" because you pronounce apfelwein so properly.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wein
My guess is that a "real" German says able similar to the way accents work in the US. You can tell if someone is from the South US; A German could tell you were an "Ausländer" because you pronounce apfelwein so properly.
NineMilBill
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My pronounciation of Apfelwein directly correlates to what number bottle I am on that evening.
GinKings
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I pronounce it sahy-der.
Ap Fell Vine
Although there are some fairly distinct regional dialects in Germany, this would be the "normal" pronunciation. You could also reasonably say it like:
Ab Fell Vine
Although there are some fairly distinct regional dialects in Germany, this would be the "normal" pronunciation. You could also reasonably say it like:
Ab Fell Vine
kpr121
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NineMilBill said:
+1 me too!
It gets more german-y as that number increases.
In Germany you don't drink up apfelwein, apfelwein drunks YOU up!
Another name for it is Edwort's a Mother******.
NineMilBill
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Coincidentally, I always get the urge to bust out some Irish drinking songs...
It's an old thread, I know, but being Austrian (we speak a southern German dialect, very much akin to Bavarian) I can't keep my mouth shut about it. Funny enough, the way the word Apfelwein is pronounced is one of the things that demarcate the High German dialects (spoken in the south) from the Low German dialects (spoken in the north). In High German, it goes like Uh-pfl-vine. In Low German, the "pf" mutation has not been made, so he word is Appel, the "A" being pronounced as "uh", as in "duh!"
In the region that is famous for its production adn consumption of Apfelwein people speak a dialect that pronounces Wein "voï". And they also use the plural form of Appel, which is Äppel - pronounced as the English word apple.
As a side note, the Austrian province i live in takes pride in its apple wine, although we call it by a different name: Most (pronounced like the English word), which is traditionally produced by wild fermentation and therefore aptly nicknamed "Landessäure" ("national acidity").
Sorry for the rant, just thought it's always good to have primar sources.
Cheera
In the region that is famous for its production adn consumption of Apfelwein people speak a dialect that pronounces Wein "voï". And they also use the plural form of Appel, which is Äppel - pronounced as the English word apple.
As a side note, the Austrian province i live in takes pride in its apple wine, although we call it by a different name: Most (pronounced like the English word), which is traditionally produced by wild fermentation and therefore aptly nicknamed "Landessäure" ("national acidity").
Sorry for the rant, just thought it's always good to have primar sources.
Cheera
