How to pronounce graves in British English
“graves” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to graves the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “graves” in: all accents · American English (273 clips)
“graves” in real sentences — British speakers
90 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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New graves are everywhere.
The Scottish Parliament
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We'll fund the brilliant Commonwealth War Graves Commission so it can tend to over 6,000 graves
UK Parliament
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I visited each one of the graves at Kingussie.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “graves”
Words one sound away from graves — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “graves”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of graves. 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.