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[Facts] Amadee?
Is Amadee pronounced ah-mah-dee or ah-mah-day? Or some other way?Thanks so much.
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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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More like ah-meh-deh. :)
Not "ay" unless you are faking an English accent ;)
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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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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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Having lived in France for her entire life....
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