How to pronounce olive in American English
“olive” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to olive the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “olive” in: all accents · British English (71 clips)
“olive” in real sentences — American speakers
143 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Nice extra virgin olive oil.
The Obama White House
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hi I'm Phil Dixon FAA safety team program manager at Olive Branch airport in Olive Branch
FAA
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fan of extra virgin olive oil myself.
NIH
Words that sound like “olive”
Words one sound away from olive — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “olive”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of olive. 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.