How to pronounce forties
Listen to forties 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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“forties” in real sentences
140 clips in the index · 20 American · 60 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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back in the thirties, forties.
USDA · hear it here
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his mid-forties named Xi Jinping.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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the Forties pipeline system is minimal.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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the average age was somewhere in the forties.
NIH · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of forties. 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.