How to Pronounce Burger | American English

4 Mar 2022 · 1 min

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Short instructional transcript in which Hadar Shemesh explains the American English pronunciation of the words "burger" and "hamburger", describing syllable structure, consonant and vowel sounds, stress placement, and giving example phrase "I would like to buy hamburger."

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How to pronounce burger. The first syllable is bur, a b sound and an r. In the middle we have the stir vowel sound bur bur that is always associated with the r. And then we have gr Gr a g sound, schwa r g. Basically, it's the same vowel sound, burger. The first one is stressed burger. If you want to say hamburger, you add ham. An h sound, the ah as in cat, but before an m it turns into an eh he ham ham, hamburger burger hamburger. I would like to buy hamburger.