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German · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "eine" in German?
EYE-nuh. The diphthong, then a soft schwa — two syllables, not one.
The beat is on EI-, with the ending trailing off — the same heavy-light shape German gives almost every two-syllable word ending in -e. As an article the whole word stays quiet inside its phrase, but the internal rhythm never flips: nobody stresses the ending.
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Ich habe eine Frage.
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Ich habe eine Frage keeps the feminine article unchanged in the accusative, since feminine nominative and accusative are identical. Frage begins with a consonant cluster and a throaty r, holds a long a, and closes on the same schwa as eine, so the phrase ends with two matching soft vowels.
Where English speakers slip
Dropping that final schwa turns eine into ein, and in German that is a change of gender rather than a slip of the tongue — eine Frage is right, ein Frage is not a thing. English speakers swallow unstressed final vowels by instinct, so this needs conscious attention. The diphthong deserves a check too: 'EE-nuh' is the other common misreading.