And Volkswagen is pronounced Folksvahgen.
Since Volkswagen is a German company, the popular Jetta car is probably supposed to be pronounced "Yetta"
Submitted 1 month ago by Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
No, it’s pronounced fow-veh!
Generica@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Apparently, the name is derived from “jetstream”, so it probably is supposed to be pronounced like cheddar. But a German who does not know that would probably pronounce it as Yetta, yes.
fallowseed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
popular german automobile? what year is it?
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does VW even make the Jetta anymore?
cypress@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 month ago
Wenn call it also Jetta here in Germany. Here an old ad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBu2Lc24554
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Indeed. Though interestingly, the Jetta seems to be much more common abroad, t’s a pretty rare car in Germany.
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What car do you see in Germany most often?
otto@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The Yolf
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
For roughly Jetta-sized cars by Volkswagen, it’s usually Passat or Golf (including the ‘Golf variant’ station wagon). VW Passat is fairly common as a police car, too.