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Consonant
"Consonant" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Liaison occurs in spoken French when a word which ends with a consonant that is normally not pronounced is followed by a word which begins with a vowel. In these cases, the consonant is sometimes pronounced as if it were at the beginning of the following word.
The letter T is a common consonant.
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This consonant tends to become voiced between vowels.
My wardrobe has four doors and two mirrors. It was manufactured by a Swedish company, whose name contains three vowels and a consonant.
A bilabial consonant is articulated with both lips.
A glottal stop is a consonant articulated by closing and opening the glottis.
Hawaiian has very few consonant sounds.
The reason why the 'ils/elles' form of 'venir' is 'viennent' instead of 'vienent' is because in French, you can't have a stressed /ə/ sound before a consonant and a mute e, so it has to accommodate by changing the /ə/ to an /ε/, this time by doubling the letter 'n.' 'Viens' and 'vient' don't have this change because -s and -t are both consonants, but the 'ils/elles' suffix -ent begins with a vowel, changing the 'vien-' from a closed syllable to an open syllable.
I have difficulty pronouncing consonant clusters.
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Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
“Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.
Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae consonant words and syllables
consonant tones; consonant chords
No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
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