Please tell me how do you find 'syllables' in English words. I don't understand it.?

Question

What exactly are syllables? I want to know how you say this word has two syllables or three syllables, when you see or pronounce the word?

I know ir might be hard to explain it in writing, and thanks for your help guys. I really appreciate it.

Answer 1

Put your hand under your chin.
Say the word.
Count how many times your chin hits your hand.

Ta Daaa : you just counted the number of syllables in the word.

Answer 2

A syllable has to do with how many parts a word has when you say it. In a sense, think of how many times your toungue moves towards the roof of your mouth. Usually, if you are able to say the whole word without touching the roof more than once, its a one syllable word (like suave). If you say potato, or yersterday you do it more than one. Then its a question of how many natural sound-breaks you can take between letters. In the word aerophobia, you would naturally pause after aero or even after ae. You could stop also after pho. This word thus has 4 syllables - 4 places you could stop in order.
The lesser the syllables, the less natural break you can have a in a word. Like - sky, wish, kiss, run, yell - are all 1 syallle words. Interesting, lubrication, material, even syllable - all are words with more than 1 syllable.

Answer 3

By sounding out the word clap or tap after each vowel or constanant sound for instance microwave has 3 syllables Mi Cro Wave see conductor has three too con duc tor its very easy I learned that in 1st grade

Answer 4

1. To find the number of syllables:
---count the vowels in the word,
---subtract any silent vowels, (like the silent "e" at the end of a word or the second vowel when two vowels a together in a syllable)
---subtract one vowel from every dipthong, (diphthongs only count as one vowel sound.)
---the number of vowels sounds left is the same as the number of syllables.
The number of syllables that you hear when you pronounce a word is the same as the number of vowels sounds heard. For example:
The word "came" has 2 vowels, but the "e" is silent, leaving one vowel sound and one syllable.
The word "outside" has 4 vowels, but the "e" is silent and the "ou" is a diphthong which counts as only one sound, so this word has only two vowels sounds and therefore, two syllables.
Split up words that have two middle consonants. example:
hap/pen, bas/ket, let/ter, sup/per, din/ner, and Den/nis. The only exceptions are the consonant digraphs. Never split up consonant digraphs as they really represent only one sound. The exceptions are "th", "sh", "ph", "th", "ch", and "wh".

Answer 5

The easiest way is to pronounce the word slowly and each part of the word is a syllable.

The (1) EASE-i-est (3) way (1) is (1) to (1) pro-NOUNCE (2) the (1) word (1) SLOW-ly (2) and (1) each (1) part (1) of (1) the (1) word (1) is (1) a (1) SYL-la-ble (3).

HOPE-ful-ly (3) this (1) helped (1).

Answer 6

Syllables are like 'beats' in a word.

The word "life" has one syllable - one beat.
"better" has two syllables - two beats.
"understand" has three syllables - three beats.
"calculator" has four syllables.
"individual" has five syllables.
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Answer 7

It's how a word is said:
Like - sy-la-ble is 3 syllables
Eng-lish is 2
un-der-stand is 3...............and so on

Answer 8

Hit yourself on the head with a hammer, for you are a retard.