How do you pronounce "uber"?

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Depends on if it has an umlaut or not. If it does, the proper pronunciation is along the lines of ueber.

Yep.

 

[slikmunks]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Spikey217

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: brentman

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: FoBoT
ooo-bur

 

[neovan]

yeah...i guess if that's the way the person wants to pronounce it, I'll just say it that way.

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Hoober<brTwenty'll get you thirty not many people even know what an umlaut is or what language this is from.

pictures for the uninformed

check it out , it's an umlaut!

An umlaut over the letter E? Not in the German language!

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: neovan
I thought it was pronounced "ooo-ber" but one of my classmates last name is uber. I pronounced it the way I thought and she corrected me and said that it is pronounced "you-ber"

btw...she's russian...if that has anything to do with the pronounciation.

The German word for "over" is "uber" with an umlaut over the U, which is correctly spelled "ueber" without the umlaut.

The pronunciation of the German would be somewhere between "ooo-ber" and "you-ber" and has no exact match in the English language. It's one of those nuances of language.

As an American tourist in a German speaking country, you'd be understood if you used either pronunciation.

A person's name, as someone else mentioned, is probably exempt from normal language pronunciations.

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: slikmunks

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Spikey217

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: brentman

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: FoBoT
ooo-bur

obnoxious hourglass reply

Names are all different, though. My wife's family can't even agree on the pronunciation of their name

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

I use the German way of pronouncing it, which uses a sound not used in English.