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# How to pronounce "culverts" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kʌlvɛrts/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **cul·verts**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: third-person singular simple present indicative of culvert

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (10 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "culverts" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Hebrew chilling if they was girls wouldn't they be the shebrew chilling altogether 49 Bridges and culverts enough to Culvert creation itself hadn't skaines a thread enough to represent them all but you get an idea perfect"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 414:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU6JJJukZ7A&t=24868s)

### Example 2
> "filling up culverts and then flooding roads and stuff like that so there is a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxW22-8KGN4&t=1376s)

### Example 3
> "the runnels and their little culverts, the ditches and dry water-ways."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 198:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU3L62OomvQ&t=11932s)

### Example 4
> "small Creeks gullies dry stream beds Ravines culverts or even low-lying"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 115:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8eDQoU4zfU&t=6951s)

### Example 5
> "amongst which were mingled higgledy-piggledy old culverts huge gilded lanterns worn-out pulley blocks rusty fluke les anchors chafed cordage"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 77:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4mchaZalgw&t=4638s)

### Example 6
> "care to leave in all his embankments large culverts to carry off floodwater but here in what was thought to be the rainless Sudan the Line south of Saras"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 389:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6kxtc1YE&t=23368s)

### Example 7
> "provision had been made or had been thought necessary for culverts in the embankments where minor Hollows were crossed thus when the flood came it was"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 389:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6kxtc1YE&t=23384s)

### Example 8
> "know, fixing up of culverts and drains and that type of thing, but that's all doable. We did it before we can do it again."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfbAHMOrogs&t=444s)

### Example 9
> "Uh, we are doing what's called a primary search, which is basically a very quick search. But when I say quick, that is up, down, sideways. They're turning over as many rocks as they can, culverts, up in trees. uh they are looking at every possible uh location and then we'll do start going into a layered approach. I'm thankful you're here. Today"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlYKX8ZwTNg&t=48s)

### Example 10
> "drop of water. He said, "I felt like my throat was swelling shut." And I remember how he would tell me he would sleep in sewage culverts to hide from"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCH8thNvO8&t=1973s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [culantro](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culantro), [culape](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culape), [culasse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culasse), [culatello](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culatello), [culch](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culch), [culcha](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culcha), [culched](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culched), [culches](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/culches)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "culverts" correctly?
"culverts" is pronounced `/kʌlvɛrts/`. Syllable breakdown: **cul·verts**.

### What does "culverts" mean in context?
third-person singular simple present indicative of culvert

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