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Hi,

Does anyone know how to prounounce Lefèvre?

Thanks

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In French you pronounce this luh-feh-vruh with the same emphasis on all syllables.

My home town of Adelaide has many places names with "Lefevre" - named after an Englishman called Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre. We anglicise the pronunciation to luh-fever (as in sickness fever.)


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In French you pronounce this luh-feh-vruh with the same emphasis on all syllables.


I'd modify that to say that the second syllable gets the accent. And certainly the last syllable is a "weak" syllable.
 
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