How to pronounce directives
Listen to directives 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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“directives” in real sentences
454 clips in the index · 159 American · 215 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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gave us several directives.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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- What are your prime directives?
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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on to be airworthiness directives.
NTSB · hear it here
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care planning and advance directives.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of directives. 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.