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schwa

/ʃwɑː/

Traduction: Voyelle moyenne, centrale et neutre qui apparaît dans les syllabes non accentuées de nombreuses langues, dont l’anglais.

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noun

/ʃwɑː/C2formal
  • frVoyelle moyenne, centrale et neutre qui apparaît dans les syllabes non accentuées de nombreuses langues, dont l’anglais.

A neutral, mid-central vowel sound that occurs in unstressed syllables in many languages, including English.

  1. Neutral vowel soundC1formal

    A mid-central vowel sound that is typically unstressed, represented by the symbol ə in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

    frschwa

    • The word 'about' begins with a schwa sound.
    • In 'banana', the first and last 'a' are pronounced as a schwa.
    • Linguists study the schwa as the most common vowel in English.
Formes
  • schwas plural form
  • schwas' possessive plural form
  • schwa's possessive singular form