How to pronounce ate
Listen to ate in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“ate” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 143 American · 83 British · 15 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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You ate the pie. You ate the pie."
The Atlantic · hear it here
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And so we ate and we ate together.
British Library · hear it here
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The experiment tracked what people ate, how much they ate, and who they ate it with,
CrashCourse · hear it here
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ate she also gave her husband with her and ate and he ate so she saw
Vallejo Drive Church SDA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ate. 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.