How to pronounce big
Listen to big in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“big” 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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The big cat, the big rabbit, the big squirrel.
NIST · watch from 19:49 · hear it here
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Big, big, wow! -That -Yeah!
National Park Service · watch from 1:53 · hear it here
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a big grant. The big grant is a big deal
NIH · watch from 9:49 · hear it here
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all the little guy the big the big companies and the big organizations and the big
FTC · watch from 82:13 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of big. 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.