Wie man „pentathlon“ auf Englisch ausspricht
pɛnˈtæθ.lən
pen·TATH·lən
Hauptbetonung: TATH
Höre Muttersprachler „pentathlon“ im Kontext echter Videoclips sprechen
Linguistic Pronunciation Masterclass: “pentathlon”
Phonetic mechanics, syllable architecture, and conversational cadence
Syllable Architecture & Stress Distribution
pen
Neutral schwa (⁄ə⁄): relaxed jaw, brief unstressed breath.
TATH
Elevated pitch, sustained vowel length, and full acoustic clarity.
lən
Neutral schwa (⁄ə⁄): relaxed jaw, brief unstressed breath.
Primary emphasis falls on the second syllable ("TATH"). Raise your pitch and sustain the vowel length on this syllable while relaxing the surrounding syllables.
Common Pronunciation Traps & Learner Mistakes
The Trap: Many learners substitute "th" with "s", "z", "t", or "d".
How Native Speakers Say It: Place the flat blade of your tongue lightly between your upper and lower incisors. Blow air gently without vocal chord vibration to produce the unvoiced ⁄θ⁄ sound.
Connected Speech & Natural Conversational Flow
When "pentathlon" is followed by a word starting with a vowel, glide the final consonant into the opening vowel (e.g. "pentathlon is" sounds like "pentathlon-iz").
Maintain the stress-timed rhythm of English: compress unstressed syllables rapidly so the beat of "pentathlon" aligns naturally with adjacent words.
Authentic Spoken Quotes from Native Video Context
“The combined running, jumping, wrestling, javelin throwing, and hurling the discus events known as the pentathlon inspired world-class competition,”— TED-EdWatch clip
“Modern Pentathlon was the brainchild also again of the Modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.”— WIREDWatch clip
“I first met my legal pentathlon.”— TEDx TalksWatch clip
“pentathlon champion--that is, someone who did the broad jump, discus, javelin, 200-meters and 1500”— YaleCoursesWatch clip
“my mother did was she had me um doing a pentathlon and the pentathlon was like”— Native SpeakerWatch clip
“By 708 BCE, what came to be known as the Pentathlon was added.”— Native SpeakerWatch clip
Aussprache üben: „pentathlon“
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The combined running, jumping, wrestling, javelin throwing, and hurling the discus events known as the pentathlon inspired world-class competition,
Im Kontext hören: “pentathlon”
25 ClipsThe Englisch word “pentathlon” is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as pɛnˈtæθ.lən (phonetic respelling: pen-TATH-lən). Phonologically, it consists of 3 syllables (pen · TATH · lən), with primary lexical stress placed on the 2nd syllable (TATH). Grammatically, “pentathlon” functions as a noun. SayItVid indexes 25 authentic Englisch video clips demonstrating how native speakers articulate “pentathlon” in natural connected speech across American (US: 8 sampled), British (UK), and Australian (AUS) accents, including verified broadcasts from TED-Ed, WIRED, TEDx Talks.
Spoken Video Transcripts & Contextual Quotes (5 Verified Clips)
- 🇺🇸 USTED-EdClip #1 · @1:27
“enticed many hopeful champions into the Olympic stadium. The combined running, jumping, wrestling, javelin throwing, and hurling the discus events known as the pentathlon inspired world-class competition, jumping,”
- 🇺🇸 USWIREDClip #2 · @5:19
“but a pretty accurate one. Modern Pentathlon was the brainchild also again of the Modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. of the Modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.”
- 🇺🇸 USTEDx TalksClip #3 · @9:00
“And that's going to be mixed with my love for sports. I first met my legal pentathlon. I would call it being trained to be a judge. Army prosecutor then was UK law firms, advocate and in-house and so on.”
- 🇺🇸 USYaleCoursesClip #4 · @39:53
“John Hellum, the U. S. pentathlon champion--that is, someone who did the broad jump, discus, javelin, 200-meters and 1500 discus, javelin, 200-meters and 1500”
- 🇺🇸 USClip #5 · @2:56
“Stockholm very much a workingclass rough neighborhood one of the big things that my mother did was she had me um doing a pentathlon and the pentathlon was like the classic pentathlon so that means fencing horseback riding uh shooting uh”
Definition & Bedeutung: “pentathlon”
- An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
- Ellipsis of women's pentathlon (“a 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women's counterpart of the men's decathlon, the predecessor to the women's heptathlon, featuring five events: hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and a run”).
Beispielsätze im Kontext (2)
- “The combined running, jumping, wrestling, javelin throwing, and hurling the discus events known as the pentathlon inspired world-class competition,”
- “Modern Pentathlon was the brainchild also again of the Modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.”
Häufige Redewendungen & Kollokationen
Aussprache: “pentathlon”
- Pronunciation:
- pen-TATH-lən
- Silben:
- pen · TATH · lən
- Written Hyphenation:
- pen · tath · lon
- Hauptbetonung:
- TATH
- IPA:
- pɛnˈtæθ.lən
- Im Kontext hören
- pentathlon
Reimwörter für “pentathlon”
-æθlənKlangidentische Wörter (Homophone)
Einzigartiger KlangFür "pentathlon" (⁄pɛnˈtæθ.lən⁄) sind keine exakten Homophone bekannt.
Häufige Fragen zu „pentathlon“
Wie spricht man „pentathlon“ aus?
„pentathlon“ wird als ⁄pɛnˈtæθ.lən⁄ (pen-TATH-lən) ausgesprochen. Höre dir die Videoclips von Muttersprachlern oben an, um es im echten Sprachgebrauch zu hören.
Wie viele Silben hat „pentathlon“?
„pentathlon“ hat 3 Silben: pen · TATH · lən.
Wo liegt die Betonung bei „pentathlon“?
Die Hauptbetonung bei „pentathlon“ liegt auf „TATH“. Achte in den Clips oben besonders auf die betonte Silbe.
Was bedeutet „pentathlon“?
An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
Wie kann ich „pentathlon“ in echten Sätzen hören?
Diese Seite enthält 25 echte Videobeispiele für „pentathlon“ mit synchronisierten Untertiteln. Nutze Zurück / Weiter (oder die Pfeiltasten ← / →), um jedes Beispiel genau im Moment des Sprechens zu hören.
What is the most common pronunciation mistake when saying “pentathlon”?
Many learners substitute "th" with "s", "z", "t", or "d". Place the flat blade of your tongue lightly between your upper and lower incisors. Blow air gently without vocal chord vibration to produce the unvoiced ⁄θ⁄ sound.