How to pronounce borrowed
Listen to borrowed 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.
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“borrowed” in real sentences
859 clips in the index · 104 American · 158 British · 7 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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They borrowed the trees, they borrowed the loos, they borrowed the parking lots, all that stuff.
TED · hear it here
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And we're living on borrowed time and borrowed money.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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borrowed our alphabet from.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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has been borrowed against.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of borrowed. 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.