How to pronounce behave
Listen to behave 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.
“behave” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 502 American · 672 British · 75 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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much we will behave as we expect ourselves to behave.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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completely behave inappropriately.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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behave in the way that you want your chip to behave.
NSF · hear it here
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going to have it, but they behave badly, always behave badly.
The White House · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of behave. 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.