How to pronounce file
Listen to file in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“file” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 157 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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file, leading to a census edited file,
Census Bureau · watch from 3:30 · hear it here
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file, Tagged Image File or TIF, HEC-RAS FLT, and file Geodatabase formats.
FEMA · watch from 3:08 · hear it here
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same file name, it’s not the same file.
National Archives · watch from 70:06 · hear it here
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and police officers to trawl through computers, translate file after file
UK Parliament · watch from 13:28 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of file. 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.