I'm pretty confused by how to make someone understand I am trying to say tué, tu or tout.
Examples:
J'ai tué mon ami. (I killed my friend.)
Tu es mon ami. (You are my friend.)
J'ai tout, mon ami. (I have everything, my friend.)
Please help.
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Sign up to join this communityI'm pretty confused by how to make someone understand I am trying to say tué, tu or tout.
Examples:
J'ai tué mon ami. (I killed my friend.)
Tu es mon ami. (You are my friend.)
J'ai tout, mon ami. (I have everything, my friend.)
Please help.
Nevertheless tu
, tué
and tout
have all three different pronunciations.
In International Phonetic Alphabet
For the records, sounds are from Wikimédia.
tué
is closer to [tye]
, but indeed, in informal speech, it would be [tɥe]
.
To answer your question, "u" and "ou" are pronounced differently in French. However your first two sentences are incorrect, which is probably adding to the difficulty. The first should read J'ai tué mon ami and it's not totally clear what the second is trying to say.
For a real example of somewhere this can make a difference, note the difference between Vous lavez-vous? (Do you wash yourself?) and Vous l'avez vu? (Did you see it?) or of course dessus and dessous, or cul and cou...
The three are pronounced differently. I don't know the IPA codes, sadly, but you can see the differences there:
You probably pronounce "tout" correctly, but "tu" is a very different sound.