Bern
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bern in British English:
UK [bə:n,bɛən]
How to pronounce Bern in American English:
US [bɚn, bɛrn]
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- Noun:
- the capital of Switzerland; located in western Switzerland
Word Origin
- Bern
- Swiss capital, probably originally from PIE root *ber- "marshy place," but by folk etymology from German Bär "bear" (compare Berlin). Related: Bernese.
Example
- 1. The meeting in bern was expected to be tough but manageable .
- 2. Still part of this small bern world with einstein had become part of a bigger world .
- 3. The team behind apollo 11 's solar wind composition experiment were from university of bern , switzerland .
- 4. In beijing , as in bern , it is a question of finding the least awful dysfunction .
- 5. In the spring of 1905 einstein was writing on a bus and he looked back at the famous clock tower that dominates bern switzerland .