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If a word or a name is pronounceable, you can say it out loud without much trouble. Your mouth can make the sounds, and other people can hear it as a real word. Teachers use this a lot with names from other languages: some names feel easy for English speakers, and some do not. Though actually, “easy” depends on who is talking — a name that feels hard in English may be perfectly easy in another language. People also stretch it a little for invented words, brand names, and passwords. The opposite is unpronounceable, which speakers sometimes say, not very kindly, about a word they cannot get their tongue around. It is an ordinary, slightly school-like word, not slang and not very formal.
好念的、唸得出來的
組成pronounce (to say a word out loud) + -able (you can do it).
同家族的字
- pronouncethe verb this adjective is built from
- unpronounceablethe opposite, with un-
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pronounceableadj
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Capable of being distinctly pronounced in speech; enunciable.
- And it's more pronounceable than a traditional keysmash—“as;ldfkjls”—so it can be said out loud.
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Capable of being expressed; sayable.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。