How to pronounce seconds

Listen to seconds in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“seconds” in real sentences

1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 561 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.

  1. seconds and 8 seconds before impact.

    NTSB · watch from 97:19 · hear it here

  2. more seconds. I will take those seconds to mention

    The Scottish Parliament · watch from 58:44 · hear it here

  3. Delay time thirty seconds.

    National Archives · watch from 11:21 · hear it here

  4. seconds stage one operating

    NASA · watch from 18:19 · hear it here

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of seconds. 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.

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