How to pronounce tonnes
Listen to tonnes 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.
“tonnes” in real sentences
645 clips in the index · 32 American · 447 British · 38 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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If we take 14 times 44 tonnes, that gives us 616 tonnes.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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than 2,900 tonnes of raspberries and 25,000 tonnes of strawberries annually.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Tonnes end up in landfills.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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of tonnes of British steel.
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tonnes. 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.