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Originally Posted by omk3
Some extra pronunciation info, feel free to ignore if it looks boring 
In the phonetic alphabet, liseuse is transcribed as [lizØ:z]
I think everything must be obvious except Ø and maybe :
: is used to lengthen the preceding sound, in this case Ø
Now Ø is the tricky part. Wikipedia gives several examples of its uses, but it doesn't seem to come up in english. I'd say it's something like a lengthened uh sound. |
thanks, very interesting stuff ! "a lengthened uh sound" is actually a pretty good way to explain it. it's the same vowel sound as in "her" or "fur", but without the r after, so i think in british english (where you don't pronounce the r much / at all) "hers" might be very close to the pronunciation of the second syllable.
technically that word-ending (-euse, or -eur in the masculine form) would be pronounced always the same, and you see the same one on "masseuse", "coiffeuse", etc. it means "someone / thing who performs the action described by the root of the word, like in english -er (footballer for instance
).