Do americans pronounce the ed in the end of a verb?

Question

example: when you say I followed her it sounds like you say I follow her

Answer 1

I pronounce the "d" at the end but don't say the "e" like the name "ed". Some americans might be talking so fast you don't hear the "d" but it is proper English to prounouce it if you are talking in the past tense.

Answer 2

There are three different pronouncations of -ed or -d for Standard American verb endings.
The endings are /d/ /t/ and /ɪd/.

1. /d/ is used when the word ends with a voiced consonant or a vowel. Followed /falowd/ Rained /ɹend/ Loged /lagd/

2. /t/ is used when the word ends with a voiceless consonant. Walked /wɔlkt/ Locked /lakt/

3. /ɪd/ occurs if the word ends with /t/ /d/ or the flap /ɾ/. Rented /ɹɛntɪd/ dated /deɾɪd/ Mended /mɛndɪd/
Note: most words in 3 which have a vowel before the final /t/ or /d/ become flaps in American English which is standard due to the rule of an aveolar stop between two vowels. Cockney accents might have a glottal stop in this case /ʔ/.
Date /det/ - American standard Dated /deɾɪd/ Cockney /deʔɪd/

That's the rule for regular verbs.

Answer 3

A few American dialects do that, but most still pronounce it with a finite verb. It's common to prefer use of the base noun instead of back-formed participles like in "iced tea" vs."ice tea" or "waxed paper" vs. "wax paper" and that often gives the appearance of "-ed" dropping, even though that's not necessarily what's happening in this case.

Answer 4

Most Americans I know (and I am one living in the north east) pronounce "ed" at the end of past-tense verbs. As in other countries, uneducated people drop off and slur the endings of words.

Answer 5

jo, some people have trouble talking "American" (or learning English for that matter really). If they mispronounce the verb endings it could simply depend on where they are from.

Written English is standardized across the U.S., and in schools abroad specializing in American English, although it differs slightly from the written British-based English used in many other countries across the globe. By contrast, there is some variation in the spoken language. There are numerous recognizable regional variations (such as New York-New Jersey English), particularly in pronunciation, but also in vernacular vocabulary. Other regions of the U.S. also have there own particular "brand" of English.

Most traditional sources cite General American English (occasionally referred to as Standard Midwestern) as the unofficial standard accent and dialect of American English. However, many linguists claim California English has become the "de facto" standard since the 1960s or 1970s due to its central role in the American entertainment industry; others argue that the entertainment industry, despite being in California, uses Midwestern. Certain features which are frequent in speakers of California English, particularly the cot-caught merger, are not often considered as part of the standard.

Regional dialects in North America are most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard. The distinctive speech of important cultural centers like Boston, Massachusetts (see Boston accent); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Charleston, South Carolina; and New Orleans, Louisiana imposed their marks on the surrounding areas. The Connecticut River is usually regarded as the southern/western extent of New England speech, while the Potomac River generally divides a group of Northern coastal dialects from the beginning of the Coastal Southern dialect area (distinguished from the Highland Southern or South Midland dialect treated below, although outsiders often mistakenly believe that the speech in these two areas is the same); in between these two rivers several local variations exist, chief among them the one that prevails in and around New York City and northern New Jersey.

The sounds of American speech can be identified with a number of public figures: Ted Kennedy speaks with a Boston accent, while Jimmy Carter speaks with a Southern coastal accent. Chuck Schumer speaks with a New York accent. The North Midlands speech is familiar to those who have heard Neil Armstrong, John Glenn and Hillary Clinton, while Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Robert Byrd speak with South Midland accents. Comedians Mel Brooks and Ray Romano retain typical New York accents while Jack Black and Pauly Shore have the standard sound of southern California.

African American Vernacular English (AAVE, commonly known as Ebonics, Black English, etc.) contains many distinctive forms as well.

Answer 6

It seems to be quite rare for an American to actually pronounce the "ed", unless we're reading Shakespeare.

Answer 7

Americans pronounce the ed. But, typically, it is just the "D" that you hear. Not "Ed"

Like follow-duh

Answer 8

Some varieties of English do drop the "d" and some do so depending on what consonants precede or follow. F.ex., in "I sensed the difficulty", it would be quite natural for the "d" to be hardly audible if at all.

Answer 9

You must bear in mind that there are a wide range of accents in the US, and be much more specific about which Americans you refer to.

Answer 10

Mostly, they say "d" instead of "ed" except for the word "beloved" in which the ending is pronounced as written - "ed"