Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with saddened below are plain text.

How to pronounce saddened in American English

“saddened” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to saddened the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“saddened” in real sentences — American speakers

126 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. We are profoundly saddened by this tragedy.

    NTSB

  2. I am saddened here just thinking about it.

    National Archives

  3. but she is saddened she cannot be here.

    The Obama White House

Words that sound like “saddened”

Words one sound away from saddened — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “saddened”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of saddened. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with S →