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Originally posted by Tapage
I ask yesterday this .. with a German friend .. he's told me about all words in German use the accent in the first syllabe.

Then is P(o)rsche
A trailing "e" in German is _always_ pronounced as "uh".

"Eine" is "eyen-uh", "Porsche" is "Porsh-uh", etc. But yes, the accent is on the first syllable.

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