How to pronounce drives in American English
“drives” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to drives the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “drives” in: all accents · British English (900 clips)
“drives” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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drives our innovation, and it drives our workforce.
The Obama White House
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work, war bond drives, we promoted war bond drives.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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Technology drives exploration.
NASA
Words that sound like “drives”
Words one sound away from drives — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “drives”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of drives. 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.