I can't for the life of me pronounce it :( it means four btw
Quatre is often pronounced a little like the English "cat" or "cut" (but with a slightly different vowel) unless it is followed by a word starting with a vowel in which case the /r/ is almost always pronounced (e.g. Elle a quatre ans). The final r might not be pronounced in quatre euros (c'est quat'euros) and in a very few cases, an extra /z/ appears in spoken French (quatre-z-yeux, quatre-z-amis, ...). See La fausse liaison dans "quatres enfants" ?
When quatre is ending a sentence, it is also often pronounced /kat/ (e.g. J'en ai vu quat re.)
Vingt before a pause can be pronounced with or without the final t. There is no single "standard pronunciation", the standard mostly depending on the region. The g is on the other hand never pronounced. The pronunciation of the nasal vowel in widely vary depending on the region or the people, and might indeed be close to the vowel /a/. The et of vingt-et-un is always pronounced so vingt-et-un is never pronounced like would be the hypothetical vingt-un (or vingt ans) and even less like we pronounce quatre-vingt-un (where no /t/ is heard).
See also: Pronunciation of "vingt"
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Mathieu Avanzi, le français de nos régions :
In everyday speech, these are generally fine.
- vingt can sound as if it has
/ɑ̃/like "an" rather than/ɛ̃/like "in" depending on how far back the speaker pronounces that vowel. Compare the first two recordings here. And here, one speaker actually uses the same vowel for "cent" and "vingt", whereas the other doesn't.- To my knowledge, most speakers delete
/t/, but some do not. However, in "vingt-et-un", the liaison from "et" means you will hear the/t/on the end of "vingt". Listen here.
- To my knowledge, most speakers delete
- et can be virtually elided in fast speech — not totally but enough to make it hard to hear
- quatre will tend to lose the
/r/, much like every word ending in "-re" or "-le" (table/tab/) when speaking informally
We'd need to see the video to know for sure, but from the description that pronunciation is okay.
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this might seem dumb, but i've always pronounced it like "cat-treu", but some people don't use their vocal cords when they pronounce the r. i do the same thing with attendre. am i over enunciating these words?