How to pronounce able
Listen to able in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“able” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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able they're able to do that and able to support that.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 136:20 · hear it here
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for themselves and are able to be heard, and able to have a platform, and able
State Department · watch from 41:48 · hear it here
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organizations from being able organizations from being able to sou organizations from being able to source.
Dept of Justice · watch from 21:09 · hear it here
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We were able to attend, we were able to help organize, we were able to hold
Federal Reserve · watch from 0:51 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of able. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.