How to pronounce hopefully
Listen to hopefully in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“hopefully” 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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continue forward hopefully
NIH · watch from 52:27 · hear it here
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Hopefully very different.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 136:24 · hear it here
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Hopefully, that’ll happen.
FEMA · watch from 1:35 · hear it here
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Hopefully at least eight.
Federal Reserve · watch from 35:33 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hopefully. 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.