How to pronounce elves
Listen to elves 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.
“elves” in real sentences
417 clips in the index · 5 American · 14 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
talker especially the elves
MooLer · hear it here
-
dwarves, elves, or mermaids.
British Library · hear it here
-
probably half elf you can see there's there's prominent elven features but elves and half elves
Mark Kilfoil · hear it here
-
Fantasy novels with elves, graphic novels with spies.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of elves. 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.