pronunciation

«pronunciation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: the way a word is said out loud — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pronunciation, pronunciations)

meaning for a pupil

1) Pronunciation is the way a word is said out loud. tree →

2) Pronunciation is also how well or how a person says words in a language, including their accent. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says seven letters have two sounds. Readers saw this doubling as standing for pairs of opposites, such as wisdom and folly, wealth and poverty, and life and death. In the primary lessons: In English and language lessons, dictionaries show pronunciation; French, Mandarin and Ukrainian lessons practise pronunciation. English spelling does not always match pronunciation (through, though, tough). People in the UK, USA and Australia have different pronunciations of the same words (tomato).

examples

• 33) The aspirating pronunciation of ρ in the Greek, was adopted by the ancient Jews in Palestine for the Hebrew letter ר. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• Instead, the SY may be intimating a twofold pronunciation of Resh known among certain mediveal Jewish communities in Babylonia and elsewhere, which does indeed preserve a distinguish between ‘single’ Resh and ‘double’ Resh. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• The [33] seven double letters, בגד כפרת with a duplicity of pronunciation, aspirated and unaspirated, namely: ,תּת ,רּר ,פּפ ,כּכ ,דּד ,גּג ,בּב serve as a model of softness and hardness, strength and weakness. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• What's the pronunciation of this word? tree →
• Her French pronunciation is really good. tree →
• «Tomato» has two common pronunciations. tree →
• The dictionary shows the pronunciation in brackets. tree →
• We practised the pronunciation of new Mandarin tones. tree →
• English spelling and pronunciation often don't match. tree →
• No explanation could convey an adequate idea of the intonation and pronunciation which Uncle Remus brought to bear upon this wonderful word. tree →

note

Famous trap: the verb is «pronounce» (with -ounce), but the noun is «pronunciation» (-nun-, no «o»). Do not write «pronounciation».

In the corpora

• Pinyin writes Chinese sounds with Latin letters and tone marks; it helps learners with pronunciation.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pronunciation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.