How To Pronounce "Deutsche Bank"?
Is it "Doysha Bank", "Doychhh Bank", or "Douche Bank"?
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What is the Pronunciation of Deutsche Bank?
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doy chuh bank.
Dooo sha bank.
I've mostly heard Doychhh bank in Europe and from Germans.
Doycha
This I would say is closest, but emphasizing the first rather than last syllable as well.
If you're that linguistically challenged, i'd recommend you stick to saying DB. Dee Bee.
apparently, it's not "banc" but "bank". That's the one that threw me off.
I've always said "Doych," but apparently the internet disagrees:
http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d1309/Deutsche_Bank http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=deutsche%20bank&submit=Submit
Also, while we're on the topic of pronunciation: I've noticed a shitload of people at my school think the word "boutique" is pronounced "bow-teek." Bitch, if you say this around me I'll straight cut you. It's pronounced "boo-teek."
No way I'm ever gonna pronounce it "boo-teek", sounds too gay that way.
You: I really want to work for Douche Bank!
Interviewer: I bet you do. Next...
Second the "doy-chuh"...
Okay, upon further research (video below), I think the most accurate pronunciation is to pronounce the final vowel as a light-release after clenching your jaw for the "TCH" sound. So, it shouldn't be a stern "AH" or "UH" at the end, but more of a lighter "EH" following the relatively harder "TCH."
Check out these European mothafuckas saying it (from DB's YouTube channel):
douche banc
god damnit, I've been saying doysh bank in my head the whole time ha
and it's definitely boo-teek. I'm usually horrible with pronouncing things correctly on the first try, but I got that.
Boo-teek. The guys saying the emphasis is on the first syllable for Deutsche are correct.
I'm sorry, I'm homicidal when up this late against my will. You'd be too.
I approve this thread lol
It's pronounced Doicha/Doycha. I uses to get shit in my German class for saying Doych because that's how you say something like "ich spreche deutsch" (I speak German) so I confused the two a lot.
Doy-cha. The 'cha' is more like a 'chuh'.
In Germany we pronounce it like Kathrin at 0:09 (or Jana at 0:33) in the DB video above, they're def. German. In the US it's more like at 1:01 and that's completely fine. Just don't say "douche" ;)
Are you saying Pan? Paln? Pamn?
Classic.
I know for a fact that in India people pronounce it as "doosh" bank :).
What DO they pronounce right in India?
Pakistan.
I feel that if you don't know how to pronounce it you should just say Douche Bank and see what the reaction is.
DB
Elite shop
bullet dodged, moving along........
Definitely "Douche"
doichabunk
"say boo-teek one more time motherfucker i dare you, say boo-teek one more time" - Jules from Pulp Fiction
This is the best thread ever on WSO. F'in hilarious.
We call it douche bank where I work. Correct pronunciation is doy-cha as others have said, but where's the fun in that?
The best part is the full title of the bank is Deutsche Bank AG...DBAG...There's a guy in my group who used to work in prime brokerage at DB and he'd always refer to the firm as dbag.
This is coming from a German:
Doy-Che-Bunk
The Che is pronounced just like in Che Guevara. And it's not pronounced Bank, but Bunk That's the German spelling. If you pronounce it like this in the US, you might come off as a douchebag though.
lol no. I'm learning German myself, and in German "eu" sounds are pronounced as "oy" , and if there is an "e" at the end of a word the final sound is a soft "ur" sound.
So "Deutsche" is pronounced "Doyshur". "Bank" is just pronounced "Bank".
another example, "Nietzsche" is not pronounced "Neetsch" or "Neechee". The correct pronunciation is "Neetzschur". "Porsche" is also of German origin, and is correctly pronounced "porschur"
the first guy is german, i think he would know.
its neetzsche.
hahahahaha this is why I love Americans I lol'ed when I saw the title
Its pronounced:
doy (like soy but with long 'o') che (like 'ker' at the end of Volker but without rolling your tongue at the end since there's no r) bank (with a short 'a').
So put together we have: 'do(long)y-che(short e) bank(short a).
Being European, I'm quite curious - How would you have said it? Dooche bank? That, if said to a German, would be: "shower bank".
^Its not spelt Bunk. Its just Bank.
Yes its my language you're using too. Gotten used to it yet?
Now listen you Schwanzlutscher: He was asking how it is PRONOUNCED and you come up with SPELLING? WTF? Your English seems to be very bad, so you probably don't know that the English bank would sound like "benk" to the German ear. So it is Doy-Che-Bunk.
this thread is awesome.
How has this thread gotten 44 replies??
is it "sn-uh-ki" or "sn-ooo-ki"?
duh its clearly a Korean name:
SUN-OO-KEE
.
Really? 48 responses? I blame UFO
Douche bags
They prefer Doi Chuh Bank ..but it beginning to sound more like Douche Bag ...i mean Bank.
Great thread... someone posted a clip in the first page... say it the way the Europeans do on that clip.
Can we move on to how you guys pronounce Porsche?
poor-shay
americans/english trying to pronounce european bank names just makes me crack up every time.
"So you guys work for BNP Parihbass? How is that?"
"It's BNP Pareebah, you stupeedh american!"
"Oh, sorry. First time we've heard of you guys."
"We're french! We invented cultyuure! We fart in your general direction. Stupeedh americans!"
"We're not stupid. We just don't have to care about a country with 10% of our GDP."
cause people who speak English are the only ones that have problems pronouncing European words
Never realized IP was such a real-life troll.
^^^ More like fantasizes about being a real-life troll 90% of the time, and actually becomes a real-life troll 10% just for comic effect.
In the past if i wasnt sure about something, I'd call their main number or investor relations # and listen to the receptionist's pronunciation.
Oh well, baby steps...
http://satwcomic.com/still-a-long-way
Europeans annoy the hell out of me... they call us the conceited ones, then act like we're stupid for not knowing everything about Europe ten seconds later.
You ain't seen anything until you hit Buenos Aires. Argentinian fuckers are pretentious and inefficient like the Europeans ("Paris of South America" they call it), only poorer. Incredibly gorgeous women, however.
That's right...I just flipped this convo back across the Atlantic and south of the border.
K guys, Im German everyone seems to miss the "t" in DeuTsche
so its Doyed (= like bob doyle with a hard "d" instead of a "le)- Ché (like this Cuban Hipster) bank (for the "a" think of a British guy say "data" in a super posh way, meaning not american english!)
Doyed-Ché Bank
There you go, impress your interviewer
Doy-tshe. Don't forget the "T"
Thanks for the information guys (funny to note how the conversation has derailed since). I never really knew how to pronounce DB properly before, but I do now!
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