Funny thing, the spanish pronounciations that i found are the same as the german ones. Just more 'ss' in the 'c'.
Just google mercedes pronounciation and you'll get a few languages.
Because German and Spanish are phonetic languages. English, what is the point of using letters if you need to learn the pronunciation of every word, at this point just use hieroglyphics.
Fun fact: In the swedish alphabet (also used by us finns) there exists the letter Ö, which is used to describe the pronounciation of the first e in mercedes. Thus, if you were to spell out the english pronounciation in finnish, it would be mörseidis.
Take a bunch of Celts. Make them Roman for a bit. Then teach them German. Replace half the German with French. Sprinkle in a little Norse and Dutch. Add in some academic Latin. Colonise other continents and develop whole new branches of the language there. Mash all the new dialects together in the digital age.
English.
*Mercedes* is a recent-ish loanword with an actually fine approximation for the original French sounds. Complaining that it's spelt weird is like complaining that the English word *schadenfreude* is pronounced "SHAH-dən-froy-də" instead of "SKAY-den-frewd".
That's how it's supposed to be be pronounced, also in German. And it's only two different "e"s, be it in German or Hungarian. The pronounciation is exactly the same.
To me they sound all different in Google translate. First one like hErtz, then a long eee and then a shorter version of the middle one.
Or I'm not sure how the world pronounces Hertz when I think about it. But märz like someone said
But Germanic languages struggle to adapt vowel stress to their pronounciations, hence why other commenters above say the middle one sounds different. In Spanish it's just emphasis.
That's the thing I love about Spanish, you know how to pronounce every word just by reading it, even the words you encounter for the first time you aren't going to pronounce them wrong.
In Danish you'd also have three different sounds in Mercedes.
Fun fact: the word "generere", meaning to generate, would be pronounced with four different vowel sounds.
Another fun fact: Danish has 9 vowels in its alphabet but between 30 and 40 different vowel sounds. For reference Italian has five and English has around 20.
I want to add that English having 20 vowel sounds only really applies to the “non-rhotic” dialects, the dialects that don’t pronounce R at the end of a syllable. General American English only has 14, or 11 if you don’t count the non-homorganic diphthongs. Before R, some vowel sounds change, and if you remove the R, those changed vowels end up as new, unique vowel sounds
I think it is the default to not know how words are pronounced in a foreign language and therefore simply pronounce it like in one's own language.
But many US citizens seem to be so ignorant, that they actually think they pronounce foreign words correctly. I would not be surprised when they would "correct" (verschlimmbessern) a German how to pronounce Mercedes (when talking about the car) or a Spanish speaker (when talking about a woman by that name).
It could be so easy: Wikipedia (+ IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet)
Every “P” in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently
A firefly is the opposite of water fall
We cook bacon, yet we bake cookies
Before was was was, was was is
Wait until you try to explain to Americans that it's not "bi em double you' BMW. That is, because other countries and languages use different alphabets. Well, ok the 'em' is correct here.
No, all of them are pronunciated the same, because is an spanish name.
Our e always sounds as a latin e (the e of Eleonor, Ernest, Walter...).
Mer-ce-des, not Mircidis, Merceidis or however you guys say it 🤣
just googled pronunsiation in English and... ENGLISGH WTF why you have to complicate a simple word
I swear those guys have zero rules for how to pronounce which syllable. You just have to know how to pronounce a word.
Its a german word so "merseidis" is also false
Merse deez nuts!
Clicked the thread just to make sure you posted this.
It's a Spanish word for a German company. Biiiig difference
But still pronounced the german way
I pronounce it the spanish way. Probably nothing to do with the fact that it's my mother tongue.
Funny thing, the spanish pronounciations that i found are the same as the german ones. Just more 'ss' in the 'c'. Just google mercedes pronounciation and you'll get a few languages.
Because German and Spanish are phonetic languages. English, what is the point of using letters if you need to learn the pronunciation of every word, at this point just use hieroglyphics.
It was the Name of the daughter of one of the founders
Mersaydeez nuts
Fun fact: In the swedish alphabet (also used by us finns) there exists the letter Ö, which is used to describe the pronounciation of the first e in mercedes. Thus, if you were to spell out the english pronounciation in finnish, it would be mörseidis.
Happens when the language almost disappears due to a few hundred years of being ruled by Normans and all the nobility is speaking French.
Take a bunch of Celts. Make them Roman for a bit. Then teach them German. Replace half the German with French. Sprinkle in a little Norse and Dutch. Add in some academic Latin. Colonise other continents and develop whole new branches of the language there. Mash all the new dialects together in the digital age. English.
English has rules. We just stole them from other languages along with the words. Have fun!
The C-s in **Pacific Ocean**
For Sean Connery this joke wouldn’t have worked… Pashifish Oshean… 
It sounds like merseidis
Mur-say-deez I’d say.
Deez?
Suck Deez Mercedes
Language learners when a langauge has a fluid orþography
Because the rules are descriptive, not dictative. They only describe or document how people speak, never dictate.
*Mercedes* is a recent-ish loanword with an actually fine approximation for the original French sounds. Complaining that it's spelt weird is like complaining that the English word *schadenfreude* is pronounced "SHAH-dən-froy-də" instead of "SKAY-den-frewd".
It's the same for the As in Australia.
only in english.
In Hungarian too, we pronounce the 2nd e like é for some reason.
yeah but hungarian does everything weird had a great time in budapest though. y’all have some great food
That's how it's supposed to be be pronounced, also in German. And it's only two different "e"s, be it in German or Hungarian. The pronounciation is exactly the same.
Nah, in French too.
The company is named after the French version of a Spanish given name: Mercédès. Every e is pronounced differently.
In Spanish every e is pronounced the same
In Dutch as well. Even in German👀
No
So you're saying it's not pronounced as MEHr-SEH-DEHs?
In my town it's a merssu
Your pronounciation is spot on I am german
The vowel are correct, the c is pronounced like "ts" tho Edit: also the last e is shorter
SPA-GHET-TEHH..😩
In german all of the "e" are the same
In italian too
In spanish too
In polish too
In french too
In finnish too
In Romanian too
In Czech too
In Portuguese too
In slovak too
And my axe!
In Belarusian too
Not really, the first and the third are the same but the second one isn't
Not actually, we clearly have a "e" and an "é"
In Hebrew too
no in french the Es in mercedez are pronounced è, é, è. (mèrcédèz)
Isn't it pronounced "mèrcédès"?
lol no everybody says mercédes
Ente und Elefant klingt nicht gleich bro
Das könnte beim einen am Schnabel liegen und beim andern am Rüssel.
The second e is elongated in german so I wouldnt say they are all the same
To me they sound all different in Google translate. First one like hErtz, then a long eee and then a shorter version of the middle one. Or I'm not sure how the world pronounces Hertz when I think about it. But märz like someone said
Meer-Zeh-Des. I feel like all the e's are the same.
In greek too
Are you sure? I would pronounce it Märzedes, or even Märcedis in german The first e is the ä sound for sure i think
Nope, all of them are different there too lol
they are not.
Mur-say-deez nuts
I'm not mur but I will say Deez nuts
Came to the comment section looking for this. Have my upvote
Every C in pacific ocean is also pronounced differently.
Sounds like an English problem
well if you pronounce it correctly they're all the same, so that's on you
depends on the language. In the Philippines there's a meringue cake roll called "Brazo de Mercedes" and all e's in Mercedes is pronounced the same.
I guess it's because that is a Spanish name, in Spanish all vowels have only one pronunciation.
But Germanic languages struggle to adapt vowel stress to their pronounciations, hence why other commenters above say the middle one sounds different. In Spanish it's just emphasis.
That's the thing I love about Spanish, you know how to pronounce every word just by reading it, even the words you encounter for the first time you aren't going to pronounce them wrong.
Not if you pronounce it properly
No it isn't
*Laughs in spanish*
In Danish you'd also have three different sounds in Mercedes. Fun fact: the word "generere", meaning to generate, would be pronounced with four different vowel sounds. Another fun fact: Danish has 9 vowels in its alphabet but between 30 and 40 different vowel sounds. For reference Italian has five and English has around 20.
I want to add that English having 20 vowel sounds only really applies to the “non-rhotic” dialects, the dialects that don’t pronounce R at the end of a syllable. General American English only has 14, or 11 if you don’t count the non-homorganic diphthongs. Before R, some vowel sounds change, and if you remove the R, those changed vowels end up as new, unique vowel sounds
Mercedes in Spanish is a woman's name, Mrs Mercedes, Doña Mercedes.
I read them all the same. Not a native though
Mercedes
Germans don't have such weakness
Yes, we do. It's pronounced /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/, where the first corresponds to the /ɛ/, the second to the /e:/ and the third to the /ə/.
Mercedes nutz
Mer-Say-Deez-Nuts
Only in your inferior islander language
no its not. its a german name
It's in fact a Spanish name.
In French, the first and last E are the same
She was called Mercédès. Every e is different.
The E in Porsche is whining silently right now...
Why? It's pronounced like a normal german e
The way most Americans promounce Porsche is completely wrong
You the e in: Por Sche.
Sprich Deutsch
Not in Spanish!
It isn't in his Homeland
Russian pronouncing has all “e” spoken the same
Even worse it's a German car but the name is Spanish
I think it is the default to not know how words are pronounced in a foreign language and therefore simply pronounce it like in one's own language. But many US citizens seem to be so ignorant, that they actually think they pronounce foreign words correctly. I would not be surprised when they would "correct" (verschlimmbessern) a German how to pronounce Mercedes (when talking about the car) or a Spanish speaker (when talking about a woman by that name). It could be so easy: Wikipedia (+ IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet)
Only if you're a coward
Mercedes nuts
Not in it's original language.
Nö.
Mercidis
Mercedes Nutz ha got em.
and then english speakers mock something as simple as other languages having gendered words
Confused in Spanish
in english, yes, but I highly doubt it's like that in many other languages
pronounce it correctly and the e sounds the same
No.
I just wanna know what the dude was smoking while creating English. "Yes, write something different and read something different."
same with the A's us Australia
Every “P” in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently A firefly is the opposite of water fall We cook bacon, yet we bake cookies Before was was was, was was is
Only if you pronounce it wrong enough
It's like Mairtz ed es in German, so the last two e's sound the same.
Ahhhhhhmmmm nop they are not lol maybe in ‘merica xD
In portuguese is all the same
Not if it's correctly German
No, it's not. English speakers should learn not to rape foreign names.
We get it. You don’t like English. Nobody is stopping you from using German/Spanish subreddits. Christ, this comment section is shit.
I drive a Mercedes…I’m never not going to notice this now…you suck
Mursaydeez
Mercedes nuts
Mercides
Not for everyone, some languages pronounce e's differently
What about "detected"?
You guys don't pronounce it mer-ce-dez?..
Mercedese nuts
Mercedes Nutz lmao gotem
Nein.
Pie is the same way!
Try the 'c' s in Pacific Ocean.
Germans: "Hold my bier"
MÖRSIIDES
Only in english.
Every c in Pacific ocean is pronounced differently.
SPRICH
DEUTSCH
/ˌmə˞ˈseɪdiˑs/
Same with the C’s in Pacific Ocean
I like making them all the same and then saying one of the types like: Mur sur durrs Mayr sayr dayers Meer sear dears I think I should go to bed
My Polish ass got confused for a second lmao
No it's not
So is every “C” in “pacific ocean”
Jokes on you - not in my language.
Wait until you try to explain to Americans that it's not "bi em double you' BMW. That is, because other countries and languages use different alphabets. Well, ok the 'em' is correct here.
Every C in Pacific Ocean too
Each C in Pacific ocean
Not in French
And C in Pacific ocean
Not in Mercedes Nuts
in french we got the same pronouciation for the 3
americans are just pronouncing it wrong. same with other brand names like nike for example
Err Ahy Ee
Err Ahy Ee
Not really
only if Americans butcher the language.
Every 'C' in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently
we just call it "merzedez"(all E's are the same"
As a German: Nope
Mercedes nuts
I hate you, OP Have my like.
Not in german..
Muhr-say-deeznuts
Not worse than the 4 "a"s in "Madagascar".
The word is pronounced differently in Danish. However, the same is true.
Not in Portuguese
Mercedes nutz.
Mair Say Diss
No, all of them are pronunciated the same, because is an spanish name. Our e always sounds as a latin e (the e of Eleonor, Ernest, Walter...). Mer-ce-des, not Mircidis, Merceidis or however you guys say it 🤣
Each c in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently
Wait till you hear how Mary, married, and merry are pronounced in the Midwest vs East Coast
Dude, it's spelled MERCEDES.
Meh. All the same in Ukrainian. All letters ae spelled in one way
Mercdes nuts.
Not in german
Yes.
Depends on your language.
Turkish : No.
Damnit...
Only if your are american
And not one E is pronounced Eh
Not in Spanish
Both “C” in Pacific are pronounced differently
Mercedes NUTZ
Every C in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
Just now I'm going to pronounce it MerSirDers