please tell me how to pronounce the name rojcewicz.
thanks.
thanks.
Rojcewicz
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It's a Polish name pronounced roy-tse-vich with the stress on the first syllable.
Hi mimi,
Welcome to the Forums! I've moved your thread to the "Slavic Languages" forum so people who have a better understanding of this type of pronunciation would be able to help.
There are probably several variations of pronunciation, based upon individual languages.
My guess, based on first site, is that it is pronounced (to an American ear) as: roche-uh-vitz (or something fairly close).
Welcome to the Forums! I've moved your thread to the "Slavic Languages" forum so people who have a better understanding of this type of pronunciation would be able to help.
There are probably several variations of pronunciation, based upon individual languages.
My guess, based on first site, is that it is pronounced (to an American ear) as: roche-uh-vitz (or something fairly close).
I thought the stress in Polish always lies on the penultimate syllable? Well, there may be some exceptions, I suppose...
Maybe you're right, Cyanista. I'll ask for the correct pronunciation on the Slavic Languages Forum.
That's correct. No exception here. Exceptions exist only for some grammatical forms (e.g. chcielibyśmy - chcieli -by - śmy) and not too often for foreign names.
It's Rojcewicz (roy-tse-vich)
Masz racją, Anatoli. Dziękuję bardzo!
My Polish too is very rusty, Anatoli, but I seem to recall that feminine nouns ending in "a" change to ą in the accusative so I think that Masz racją (literally, "you have the right")is correct. Polaki gdzie jestscie?
Dziękuję bardzo za poprawi, Anatoli. Moj polski nie jest tylko zardzewiały, jest g----!
Or as they say in Oz, Good on yer mate!
Or as they say in Oz, Good on yer mate!
No worries, mate!
Oh yes, so am I!
I'm impressed anyway.
And once more about name Rojcewicz: definitely the stress is put on the second syllable, so: Roy-tse-vitch, trust mePozdrawiam!