How to pronounce lament in American English
“lament” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to lament the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “lament” in: all accents · British English (76 clips)
“lament” in real sentences — American speakers
30 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Female Speaker: I long for and lament getting to that stage.
The Obama White House
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quite limited, rather than lament what they can no longer do.
CDC
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Obviously, we always loss – or lament the loss of any civilian life.
State Department
Words that sound like “lament”
Words one sound away from lament — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “lament”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lament. 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.