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Cambridge Dictionary
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YOUR | Pronunciation in English
YOUR pronunciation. How to say YOUR. Listen to the audio pronunciation in English. Learn more.
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ELSA
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How to Pronounce YOUR in American English | ELSA Speak
Practice pronunciation of the word your with ELSA advanced technology and say your like Americans.
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Youglish
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EasyPronunciation
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Your — Pronunciation: HD Slow Audio + Phonetic Transcription
How to pronounce 'your' in English. Normal and slow speed HD audio recordings and phonetic transcription written with International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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Get Pronounce
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How to pronounce "your"
To pronounce 'your' as most native English speakers do, start with the 'y' sound and follow with a shorter 'o' or 'oo' vowel. Listen carefully to different dialects, as 'your' can be pronounced /jɔːr/, /jʊr/, or /jʊər/ depending on region.
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Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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your determiner - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
Definition of your determiner in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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Reddit
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r/ENGLISH on Reddit: Pronunciation of your and/or you're
October 10, 2024 -

I'm a native speaker and I've always pronounced "your" and "you're" as "yer" and I never though anything of it until I saw "you're" written as "yer" for the dialogue of a character with an accent.

So how do you pronounce "your" and "you're"? Do you pronounce them the same or differently?

Also is "ur" pronounced as just saying the letters?? I never realized this before

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Wiktionary
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your - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”). [edit] ur (informal, Internet, text messaging) ya, yer, yr (informal) yo, yo' (African-American Vernacular) yur (pronunciation spelling) [edit] (Received Pronunciation): (stressed form) enPR: yo͝o(r), yô(r) (pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /jɔː(ɹ)/ (without the pour–poor merger) IPA(key): (now rare) /jʊə(ɹ)/ (unstressed form) IPA(key): /jə(ɹ)/ (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA(key): /jɔɹ/, /jʊɹ/, /jɝ/, (un
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Forvo
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Forvo
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your pronunciation: How to pronounce your in English
Pronunciation guide: Learn how to pronounce your in English with native pronunciation. your translation and audio pronunciation
Published   January 27, 2023
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The American English pronunciation for you're is /jʊ(ə)r/, /jər/; the pronunciation for your is /jʊ(ə)r/, /jər/.
In British English, the pronunciation are respectively /jɔː/, /jə/, /jʊə/; and /jɔː/, /jʊə/.

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UPDATE: The American Heritage Dictionary agrees with you. They list /yôr/ as an acceptable variant pronunciation for your but not for you're. However, since they don't say what dialects this pronunciation is found in, I don't know whether the speculation in my original post below is correct.

ORIGINAL POST: In the U.S., there are a number of accents which don't have the phoneme /ʊɹ/ in moor. (My mother, from rural Illinois, had one of these accents, and I used this accent's pronunciation for many of these words when I was young.) In these accents, the phoneme is replaced by either /ɝ/ as in purr or /ɔɹ/ as in pore; the rule is that generally, words that are pronounced with /jʊɹ/ (pure, cure) the phoneme is replaced by /jɝ/, and words that are pronounced with no /j/ (poor, moor, sure), the phoneme is replaced by /ɔɹ/.1 It may be that in some of these accents, you're and your get disambiguated by having you're rhyme with purr, and your rhyme with pore. I do know that pronouncing you're with /ɔɹ/ sounds wrong to me, whereas pronouncing your either way sounds fine.

I'm just guessing, but it's possible that one of these accents influenced your pronunciation of your and you're.

1 This rule only works for the final syllable of words. Otherwise, the sound generally changes to /ɝ/.

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YouGlish
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Your | 3285612 pronunciations of Your in English
Self-Record & Review: Record yourself saying 'your' in sentences. Listen back to identify areas for improvement. YouTube Pronunciation Guides: Search YouTube for how to pronounce 'your' in English.
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HowtoPronounce
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Quora
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How to pronounce 'you're' - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): An appreciation of contractions can come from restepping the historic action that rendered them members of the almanac. You are. Saying this fast may or may not get you to the pronunciation that is like both your and yore and in behavior. But if you consider that “ you are" ...
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Pronounce
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Cambridge Dictionary
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YOU’RE | Pronunciation in English
Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio · US/jʊr//jɚ/ More about phonetic symbols · Sound-by-sound pronunciation · Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio · UKstrong /jɔːr/ you’re · Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio · /j/ as in · Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio ·
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BBC
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BBC Learning English - The Pronunciation Lounge
2 hours ago - Improve your pronunciation with Beth and Georgie in three steps – hear, recognise and produce.
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Rachel's English
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How to Pronounce the Word YOUR in a Sentence - Rachel's English
March 31, 2024 - Both YOU’RE the contraction and YOUR the pronoun sound great when reduced to ‘yer’ in a sentence. So, we’re keeping the Y consonant sound, but then we’re reducing the vowel sound to the schwa. Since it’s followed by the R, we don’t really need to think of the schwa as being a separate sound.
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EnglishClub
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Pronunciation | Learn English
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