How to pronounce elder in American English
“elder” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to elder the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “elder” in: all accents · British English (142 clips)
“elder” in real sentences — American speakers
432 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Elder care, relatively shallow losses.
Census Bureau
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approach to addressing elder abuse.
Dept of Justice
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Jason Elder, DOD, OUSDI.Donna
US National Archives
Words that sound like “elder”
Words one sound away from elder — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “elder”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of elder. 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.