Hadar Shemesh breaks down how to say hereditary: stress the second syllable, use a flap D that sounds like a T between vowels, and hit the final R and long E clearly.
How to pronounce hereditary. You start with an h sound, then a schwa. The h is pronounced. Then we go into the primary stress re Hurrah. Hurrah. Then we have D, a d sound and a schwa. Now the D between two vowels is a flap D. That sounds like a flap T. That sounds like a trilled R in some languages. Hereda. Hereda. And then we have a strong T heredity. And then you end up with an R and a high e. Re. Hereditary. Hereditary. For the meaning of this word, check out the caption.
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