A schwa represents a neutral vowel.
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Schwa
//ʃwɑ//
Synonyms for "schwa" (4 found)
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37 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شْوَا verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шва verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Catalan
2 entries- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- vocal neutra verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 中央元音 verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- 涮音 verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Czech
1 entries- šva verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Dutch
2 entries- doffe e verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- sjwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝvao verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Finnish
1 entries- švaa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
French
2 entries- e muet verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
German
1 entries- Schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Hebrew
1 entries- שווא \ שְׁוָא verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Hindi
1 entries- श्वा verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Hungarian
1 entries- svá verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Indonesian
1 entries- pepet verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Italian
2 entries- scevà verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Japanese
1 entries- シュワー verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Korean
1 entries- 슈와 verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Persian
2 entries- شوا verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- واکهٔ بیرنگ verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Polish
1 entries- szwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Portuguese
4 entries- chevá verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- xevá verb (indeterminate central vowel)
- xuá verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Russian
1 entries- шва verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- poluglas verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Slovak
1 entries- šva verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Slovene
1 entries- polglasnik verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Spanish
1 entries- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Swedish
1 entries- schwa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шва verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Võro
1 entries- svaa verb (indeterminate central vowel)
Sample sentences
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The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
Source: wiktionary
However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
Source: wiktionary
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