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I always thought of Ylönen as being pronounced something like /jʌ'loʊnɛn/, but then when I went to Finland I learned that it's something like /'ylønen/. (The stress is on the first syllable and the y is purely a vowel, not a consonant.)



Protip: In Finnish the stress is almost always on the first syllable.

Only exceptions being some expressive words "juma'lattoman" "päin'vastoin" (' for where the stress is).




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