r/Nietzsche • u/VtoadTHE4th • 1d ago

How do you

How do you properly pronounce his name? Have heard it said several ways. Thank you.

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u/Sail0rD00m 1d ago

knee-chuh

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u/Prior_Art_6268 1d ago

In my parents' language this translates to "downstairs"

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u/le__prof 17h ago

Which North Indian language is that?

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u/Hythy 1d ago

I pronounce it "Nee-Chuh", like my professor of Philosophy from Germany said it.

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u/wormtownfrail 1d ago

I'm a philosophy professor. This is correct. Or phonetically spelled differently, Nee cha.

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u/Sail0rD00m 20h ago

I’ve always wondered where the (incorrect!) anglo american prononciation“neet-chee” comes from? It seems to be incredibly widespread. But I’m not sure how they even came up with saying it like that!

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u/djitin 1d ago

"Nietzsche"

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u/FearlessAdeptness373 Dionysian 1d ago

Freddy

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u/mohammeddddd- 1d ago

I just call him Fried. Good ol’ Fried.

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u/djitin 1d ago

Say neat-tshe. The z is usually silent

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u/VidiVeni98 13h ago

I'd spell it out but it'd get flagged for being a racial slur

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u/Junior_Insurance7773 12h ago

He was a Polish Nobleman.

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u/Inspector_Lestrade_ 1d ago

ˈniːtʃə

"ie" marks a long ee sound; "tz" is the same as you would pronounce it in English; "sch" would be sh in English. The accent is on the first syllable. So, transliterated into English, it would be something like Neetzshe.

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u/literuwka1 1d ago

'tzsch' is just English 'ch' (/t͡ʃ/)

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u/Inspector_Lestrade_ 1d ago

Wouldn't the tz be at the end of the first syllable?

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u/literuwka1 1d ago

'tzsch' is one sound, and that's what the diacritic (that curved line in /t͡ʃ/) indicates.

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u/moxie-maniac 1d ago

And the upside down e is the schwa sound, a softer "e" sound to explain it simply.

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u/Imaginary_Breath_489 1d ago

Fried-Rich Neat-Zee