--- title: "How to pronounce \"flatmate\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"flatmate\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/E5swtIjpxxA/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flatmate" --- # How to pronounce "flatmate" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈflætmeɪt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **flat·mate** - **Stress**: **FLAT** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/21/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flatmate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flatmate.wav.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - A person with whom one shares a flat. - *Example*: "Yet when both Regine and her flatmate are at home they tend to spend their time in their rooms, although Regine (and probably the flatmate too) tends to spend more time in the communal areas of the flat when the other is not at home." - A person with whom one shares any rental dwelling, not necessarily a flat. - *Example*: "It had been weeks since all the flatmates had sat down together for a meal. Communication was breaking down. Written notes had begun to appear all over the house; please don′t touch this food, I bought it especially for Hermione[…]." ### Example Sentences - "Yet when both Regine and her flatmate are at home they tend to spend their time in their rooms, although Regine (and probably the flatmate too) tends to spend more time in the communal areas of the flat when the other is not at home." - "It had been weeks since all the flatmates had sat down together for a meal. Communication was breaking down. Written notes had begun to appear all over the house; please don′t touch this food, I bought it especially for Hermione[…]." - "flatmate so that the role of them as a sexual partner is diluted for other people it's diluted also by being a co-parent so our brain starts to see" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "flatmate" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "our Dynamic with them isn't diluted by other roles so for your friend that moves someone in that person then becomes a flatmate so that the role of them as a sexual partner is diluted for other people it's diluted also by being a co-parent so our brain starts to see that person less as a sexual object this is an inevitable part of being with" - **Watch at 31:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5swtIjpxxA&t=1873s) ### Example 2 > "ambitious so yeah it' be nice to be thought of that way thankfully back at home someone's already put dinner in the oven they flatmate Callum four of them live together it's common for people starting their careers in London to share apartments and these housemates feel like a family Jonathan is happy in London but he'd like to get to know other cities too there's some other parts of the" - **Watch at 3:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq3tU8dEy_M&t=213s) ### Example 3 > "seven or eight people got tested all who are positive the university of manchester has seen more than a thousand cases adam and his flatmates have been isolating for ten days one after they expect us to all do like honestly we are all young we will have fun we've had like a pretty poor six months what was they expect yeah we also a lot of us didn't have a choice" - **Watch at 2:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUytudGB8o&t=125s) ### Example 4 *Accent: AUS* > "my flatmate actually went to um the Bobby Goldsmith uh organization here in New South Wales to do some training. And" - **Watch at 23:32**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSuGIRUeW9s&t=1412s) ### Example 5 > "And then in the summer of 2024, my hometown Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, ran out of water. My flatmates and I quickly adjusted, using fewer dishes, taking one-bucket baths. But something that has been mundane was suddenly scarce and precious." - **Watch at 3:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_QQv_xvJU&t=207s) ### Example 6 > "Some of them like it so much they don't want to go home and move to Berlin for good. That's the case for these French and German flatmates in central Berlin. Ellen is a management consultant from Gap in southeastern France. Danielle is a self-employed IT retailer. His father is French. His mother is German. And Anka is a press officer from Oxenfort in" - **Watch at 0:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wua74Yi_gfM&t=25s) ### Example 7 *Accent: AUS* > "year flatmates. com. au" - **Watch at 39:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSGXtMGUjpE&t=2344s) ### Example 8 > "And my flatmate is more on the internet than I am, so she brings these things to me." - **Watch at 38:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kbHK4Nla2Q&t=2309s) ### Example 9 > "that my flatmate does it, and-- I know, it's a whole thing." - **Watch at 35:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44N9xkk_yg&t=2141s) ### Example 10 > "And my flatmate had a guitar, and she showed me a few chords." - **Watch at 3:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k15pMeksV6M&t=231s) ## How to Pronounce "flatmate" - **Syllables**: flat · mate - **Stress**: FLAT — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈflætmeɪt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /FLAT/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [flagrate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flagrate), [flamage](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flamage), [flapgate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flapgate), [flab](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flab), [flabagast](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flabagast), [flabagasted](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flabagasted), [flabagasting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flabagasting), [flabagasts](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/flabagasts) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “flatmate”? “flatmate” is pronounced /ˈflætmeɪt/ (flat · mate). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “flatmate”? “flatmate” has 2 syllables: flat · mate. ### Where is the stress in “flatmate”? The primary stress in “flatmate” is on “FLAT”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “flatmate” mean? A person with whom one shares a flat. ### How can I hear “flatmate” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “flatmate” with synchronized subtitles. 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