How to pronounce mates
Listen to mates 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.
“mates” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 199 American · 114 British · 36 Australian · 6 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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they're just good mates. And >> good flat mates.
RNZ · hear it here
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>> Well, your mates, your mates with banning orders, you know.
British Library · hear it here
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its bikey gangster mates?
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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to find additional mates.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of mates. 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.