Can you read phonetic signs?
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Phonetic
//fəˈnɛt.ɪk//
Synonyms for "phonetic" (132 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (66)
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Adjective(1 words)
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7 entriesderived
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 33 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- foneties adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Armenian
2 entries- հնչյունաբանական adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
- հնչյունային adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Asturian
2 entries- fonéticu adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonéticu adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Catalan
1 entries- fonètic adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 形聲偏旁 /形声偏旁 noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
- 聲旁 /声旁 noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
- 聲符 /声符 noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
Czech
1 entries- fonetický adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Dutch
2 entries- fonetisch adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonetisch adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Finnish
4 entries- foneettinen adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- foneettinen adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
- äänteellinen adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- foneettinen osa noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
French
2 entries- phonétique adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- phonétique adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Galician
2 entries- fonético adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonético adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
German
2 entries- phonetisch adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- phonetisch adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Greek
1 entries- φωνητικός adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Hungarian
1 entries- fonetikai adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Ingrian
1 entries- fonettiin adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Interlingua
1 entries- phonetic adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Italian
1 entries- fonetico adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Japanese
1 entries- 音符 noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
Latvian
2 entries- fonētisks adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonētisks adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Manx
1 entries- sheeanagh adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- fonetisk adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonetisk adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- fonetisk adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonetisk adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Occitan
1 entries- fonetic adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Polish
3 entries- fonetyczny adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonetyczny adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
- część fonetyczna noun (component of a phono-semantic compound that indicates pronunciation)
Portuguese
2 entries- fonético adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonético adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Romanian
2 entries- fonetic adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonetic adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Russian
1 entries- фонети́ческий adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- fogharach adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fogharach adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Spanish
2 entries- fonético adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- fonético adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Swedish
1 entries- fonetisk adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
Tagalog
2 entries- palatinigin adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- palatinigin adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фонети́чний adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Welsh
1 entries- seinegol adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Yiddish
2 entries- פֿאָנעטיש adj (relating to sounds of spoken language)
- פֿאָנעטיש adj (linguistics: relating to phones)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
English is not a phonetic language.
Source: tatoeba (3058785)
Can you read phonetic symbols?
Source: tatoeba (4228974)
Tom can read the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Source: tatoeba (5677053)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
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