How to pronounce rotten
Listen to rotten 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.
“rotten” in real sentences
573 clips in the index · 24 American · 167 British · 5 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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and some extraordinarily rotten deals.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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rotten Government is morally bankrupt.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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somewhere is a rotten apple.
Big Think · hear it here
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Because these are rotten apples.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rotten. 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.