How to pronounce forty
Listen to forty 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.
“forty” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 489 American · 182 British · 13 Australian · 16 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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THOUSAND DAMS IN FORTY SEVEN STATES SINCE NINETEEN FORTY EIGHT.
USDA · hear it here
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hundred and forty lifetimes.
TED · hear it here
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something approaching forty thousand
The Royal Society · hear it here
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about forty seven point five percentage of the GDP which has fallen to forty
Smart Leaders IAS · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of forty. 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.