How to pronounce von
Listen to von in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“von” in real sentences
680 clips in the index · 137 American · 45 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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time by Count Von Shernborn.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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>> von. >> you, True presiding officer.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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woman called Monica von Wichfeld.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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and physiologist Herman von Helmholtz.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of von. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.