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Sometimes hard as in the name of the town 'Grimstad', sometime very soft like the word for give: 'gi' pronounced 'yi'.

'E'is always pronounced so 'Elise' has 3 syllables.

By the way 's' is always pronounced as 's' and never as 'z' (as in English 'as' which is pronounced 'az').

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