vowels in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for vowels in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

vowel [Brit ˈvaʊəl, Am ˈvaʊ(ə)l] N

Translations for vowels in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

vowels in the PONS Dictionary

vowels Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

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English
When adding an affix would result in two identical vowels side by side, an epenthetic /h/ is inserted to prevent the forbidden sequence.
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The main feature of the long song is the prolonged, tenuto notes with deeply modulated vibrato on the vowels.
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These two dialects are characterized by loss of short vowels due to vowel syncope.
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Nasal vowels are written a tilde or by a following or.
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Here, reading the sentence backwards including vowels would not create a palindrome.
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Both consonants and vowels may be fronted or backed.
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All consonants except for the glottals, and all vowels, have an individual place of articulation in addition to the state of the glottis.
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Most vowels have two prominent allophonic realizations, depending on whether it occurs in a stressed or unstressed syllable.
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His stenographic method consisted in cutting out the superfluous consonants as well as the vowels in polysyllabic words.
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The alternation patterns in many of these languages is quite extensive involving vowels and consonant gemination (i.e. doubled consonants).
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