how do you pronounce fuchs?

mikesride · mikesride's Garage

dumb question, i know. I have been saying "fewks" but a friend says its just "fooks". Who knows the right way?

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

fooks.

DARISC · 08-22-2011, 11:39 AM

Rhymes with 'books'.
BTW, if you only have one, you have one Fuchs, not Fuch.

Rikao4 · 08-22-2011, 11:40 AM

try your friends version..
using u...
fuuks...
if said properly it doesn't sound like that other word..

Rika

mikesride · mikesride's Garage

Thanks guys!

genrex · 08-22-2011, 12:12 PM

It's pronounced "fooks".... fuchs means fox in German.

That was an easy one. Just don't ask how to pronounce Jaguar!... if you ask a hundred Jaguar owners, you'll get a hundred different opinions, and a hundred disdainful looks.

VINMAN · 08-22-2011, 01:35 PM

Jaguar Jag-war or....Jag-you-are

MarkRobinson · 08-22-2011, 01:39 PM

so "Fooks" it is? That's how i've heard it for 17 years...(doesn't mean it's right, just how they say it in Texas

rattlsnak · rattlsnak's Garage

fooks...

tcar · 08-22-2011, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by NotaBRG

Fox.

A friend has this last name, and that's how they say it.

Yes, German for FOX.

When you say 'Fuch' instead of 'Fuchs', it's like saying 'FO' instead of 'FOX'. (sort of)

Fuchs for one, Fuchs for two.

Fooks.

Heel n Toe · 08-22-2011, 04:43 PM

Fox?

Books?

Maybe we need a linguist or a German.

From what's been posted so far, I can't tell whether it should rhyme with "looks," with "spooks," or with "Spock's."

DARISC · 08-22-2011, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Fox?

Books?

Fuchs is fox in German.

Maybe we need a linguist or a German.

A linguist? really?

From what's been posted so far, I can't tell whether it should rhyme with "looks," with "spooks," or with "Spock's."

Oh my!

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Red88Carrera · 08-22-2011, 05:20 PM

Take a listen...
Press the LISTEN button when you get there

DARISC · 08-22-2011, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Red88Carrera

Take a listen...

Cool! Sounds like 'spocks'.

I was just about to call a linguist!

Bill Douglas · 08-22-2011, 06:13 PM

In Germany you say Fu cks.

Unless I was misunderstanding the young woman in the Porsche www.porschezentrum-berlin.de shop in Berlin. Maybe I missed out on a better offer

Zeke · 08-22-2011, 06:18 PM

There is a subtle difference. Probably more like a Southerner would say "fu cks." The way we say that in CA won't work. But, I prefer fooks and I don't care. I'd rather not have everyone turning and looking at me.

Shuie · 08-22-2011, 06:42 PM

f ou ks

DARISC · 08-22-2011, 07:22 PM

Once I was chatting with a German artist friend and asked how to pronounce several German words I wasn't sure of. I repeated the first one as she pronounced it and she said, No, and spoke the word again. Tried again, No, she said then spoke it again, I repeated again and she laughed at me.

So I asked her two more, same results, same laughter. Then I thought of Fuchs, tried three times, got three laughs and said, OK, I give up, you hard assed hausfrau! She laughed again and said, that's pronounced 'hausfrau'.

I said, I know German is a difficult language to learn, but wow! She said, Ach, no! German is easy. English is the most difficult! This lady is fluent in four languages.

HardDrive · 08-22-2011, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

In Germany you say Fu cks.

Unless I was misunderstanding the young woman in the Porsche Porsche Niederlassungen Berlin - Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG shop in Berlin. Maybe I missed out on a better offer

lol

Rikao4 · 08-23-2011, 05:33 AM

D is correct....
German is my first ...
it's rules are simple..
English is full of 'exceptions too same'..
and not phonetic..

Rika