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How do you pronounce Nieves?
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NEEVES
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Stop posting wrong answers!!!!No!NYEH-behs
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When I see this name, I(ME)pronounce it NEEVES. Get the message.
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You don't know Spanish, so your pronunciation is not the pronunciation of the name.
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I actually am studying Spanish at the moment. I know someone with this name, and have completely got the pronounciation correct.
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Perhaps you are studying Spanish, but you are not learning it.Profe Esteban and me, we are native Spanish speakers, philologists and teachers of this language.Your guess about the pronunciation is wrong. In Spanish the ONLY way to pronounce the diphthong ie after a consonant (in Nie-) is [je] (['njebes]). The rest of pronunciations are mispronunciations.
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Just NEE-ve or NEE-ves
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In Spanish? No
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Assuming that it's Spanish...nee-EH-ves or nee-EH-bes I guess.
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In Spanish, the V is always pronounced B. And the group IE after a consonant is a diphthong: NYEH.
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Dear Lumia: don't you think that englishspeakers might suppose that NYEH is pronounced NAIE instead of nee-Eh-bes? Saludos.
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Before a post of a English speaker in this forum, I noted the diphthongue in Spanish as NEE EH-behs (there aren't two syllables, only one). But "Minimal precision
Lumia (Authenticated as Lumia, 86.42.66.85)
Date: November 27, 2006 at 2:10:05 PM
Reply to: Re: Luciana by Caprice In (Castilian or American) Spanish the I and the A in Luciana are in one syllable: loo- THEE AH-nah / loo-SEE AH-nah (I don't know how to represent the diphtongue).Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com""Re: Minimal precision
Author: Array (Authenticated as WeloveyouJesseLacey, 140.225.44.213)
Date: November 27, 2006 at 2:31:38 PM
Reply to: Minimal precision by Lumia Perhaps like loo-SYA-nah / loo-THYA-nah?Array"Then, I interpret that to an English speaker the Y represents the semiconsonant.All would be more easy and correct using the IPA.
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Thanks for your fast answer, Lum
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NYEH-behs
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ni-EH-ves
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