In Finnish, you don't aspirate the consonants k, p, and t.
Source: tatoeba (5078450)
Aspirate
//ˈæs.pə.ɹeɪt//
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63 translations across 19 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- মহাপ্রাণ বর্ণ noun (linguistics: sound produced)
Catalan
1 entries- aspirar verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 送氣 /送气 noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- 送氣音 /送气音 noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- 吸入 verb (to draw into one's lungs)
- 抽空 verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
Czech
1 entries- vdechnout verb (to draw into one's lungs)
Dutch
1 entries- aspiratie noun (linguistics: puff of air)
Finnish
4 entries- aspiraatio noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspiraatta noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- henkäisy noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspiroida verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
French
4 entries- aspiration noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspirer verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
- inhaler verb (to draw into one's lungs)
- inspirer verb (to draw into one's lungs)
German
2 entries- Aspiration noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- Behauchung noun (linguistics: puff of air)
Irish
2 entries- análaigh verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
- asúigh verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
Italian
2 entries- aspirare verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
- pompare verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
Japanese
2 entries- 帯気音 noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- 有気音 noun (linguistics: sound produced)
Norwegian
1 entries- aspirere verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
Polish
4 entries- aspiracja noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspirata noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- aspirować verb (to draw into one's lungs)
- aspirować verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
Portuguese
4 entries- aspirar verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
- aspirar verb (to draw into one's lungs)
- aspirar verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
- inalar verb (to draw into one's lungs)
Russian
4 entries- аспира́ция noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- придыха́ние noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- придыха́тельный звук noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- придыха́тельный согла́сный noun (linguistics: sound produced)
Slovak
4 entries- aspirácia noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspirácia noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- aspirovať verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
- vdýchnuť verb (to draw into one's lungs)
Spanish
4 entries- aspiración noun (linguistics: puff of air)
- aspirada noun (linguistics: sound produced)
- aspirar verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
- aspirar verb (to draw into one's lungs)
Turkish
1 entries- aspire etmek verb (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bật hơi verb (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath)
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In my idiolect of English, I do not aspirate plosives, and the first part of the word "Australia" rhymes with "cow."
Source: tatoeba (10602794)
We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
Source: wiktionary
a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ἀπηθεῖν and ἀπήθημα ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) ἀφηθεῖν and αφήθημα
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