How to pronounce happy
Listen to happy in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“happy” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Happy Holidays and happy New Year.
Census Bureau · watch from 47:57 · hear it here
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Happy Birthday, NOAA! Happy Birthday, NOAA!
NOAA · watch from 3:34 · hear it here
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Happy Monday. MR PRICE: Happy Monday.
State Department · watch from 5:39 · hear it here
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Um happy happy to give way.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 27:07 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of happy. 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.