How do you say Seren?

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Is it SERen or SerEN?

Thanks!

Seh-ren

Ser-EN as in serendipity

So completely equal emphasis on both syllables? I find that very hard to do - one always ends up emphasised a bit more.

Xposts.

Slightly more on the en bur more Se-Ren

S-Ren

In Welsh, it's stressed on the first syllable. SEren (both of those are short e's as well, it shouldn't sound anything like "serene".

SER-en. Slight stress on first syllable. As Fith said.

I think my issue is that I'm Scottish so over pronounce the r. I'll try sort of skipping it like English folk do :)

Like seven but with an r not a v

I think english people still say the R. It's not like in words like 'barn' where I don't.
I think I'd go for emphasis at the beginning.

The Seren I work with is SEren.

Is it the same sort of stress as Helen?

Watch Abadas on CBeebies. The bat is called Seren and they pronounce it SEren.

badtime, yes, it's the same stress pattern but both the vowels sound the same in Seren, it's not like the second vowel of Helen, which is kind of swallowed so it sounds like HELL-un. Both the vowels in Seren sound like the a in any.

It would be ok to pronounce the R, lots of Welsh people do.

It's a Welsh name. The r is supposed to be pronounced :/

Accent is always on the penultimate syllable in Welsh. So:
SER-en
RHI-an (not rhi-AN)
GER-aint

But Rhi-ANN-wen

I would say SE-ren unless told otherwise.

Exactly what Vpillow said.

But if you have Serena the emphasis changes to SehREEna.

I meant Welsh people pronounce the R. Not sure where that some came from.

Lots ai mean.

Seh-ren. Emphasis on the 'Seh'.

Sair-en or SER-en (my dd2 is seren) definitely not Ser-EN and not serene or serena!