Pronunciation/Names
How do you pronounce Nietzsche?
NEE-chuh/ˈniːtʃə/
Commonly said as: "NYE-chee", "neet-shee"
nee chuh
Nietzsche
What it is
Nietzsche was the nineteenth-century German philosopher who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Why it gets said wrong
German ie is a long ee and the final e reduces to uh, giving two syllables: NEE-chuh.
Hear it in a sentence
The quotation is from Nietzsche.
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