How to pronounce tentative
Listen to tentative 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.
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“tentative” in real sentences
289 clips in the index · 86 American · 40 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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>> very tentative response there.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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been in a tentative ceasefire.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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to extend a verbal tentative offer.
Census Bureau · hear it here
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It's still kind of tentative.
John Kubiatowicz · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tentative. 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.