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# How to pronounce "frates" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/frætɛs/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **fra·tes**

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

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

### Example 1
> "I have had 29 years of having the honor of being the mother of Pete Frates. Pete Frates has been inspiring and leading his whole life. He's thrown out kindness, and all that kindness has come back to him."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-mXnUoUXM&t=1013s)

### Example 2
> "and Pete and Julie have given me my granddaughter, Lucy Fitzgerald Frates. Lucy Fitzgerald Frates came two weeks early as the exclamation point on August 31st, 2014. And so —"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-mXnUoUXM&t=1081s)

### Example 3
> "yeah terrible these berliners are not alone according to the monthly national survey iid deutschland trend from the polling institute in fratest d-mab 79 of germans are critical of how the country is managing the crisis it's the highest number since the start of the pandemic only 24 percent are okay with the measures as they are about the same say they go too far while"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvdOBk7-Jc&t=442s)

### Example 4
> "I'm saying my buddy Pete Frates' diagnosis was March 13, 2012."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFhB0V3O7xs&t=333s)

### Example 5
> "And I searched young ALS patients, and Peter Frates is what popped up."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFhB0V3O7xs&t=387s)

### Example 6
> "I know that I'm running over, but I've got to leave you with this: the gifts that my son has given me. I have had 29 years of having the honor of being the mother of Pete Frates. Pete Frates has been inspiring and leading his whole life."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-mXnUoUXM&t=1005s)

### Example 7
> "Yeah? So Corey actually started that for his friend from Boston College named Pete Frates, who has ALS."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE7l0HZg1R0&t=437s)

### Example 8
> "most people know better as Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a terrible degenerative disease. People end up trapped in their bodies. They don't typically survive beyond 2 to 5 years. The way this challenge began -- the way it really kicked off was with a guy named Peter Frates, he was a Boston College athlete. He is living with ALS and he took this challenge. The idea was that you would either get an ice bucket dumped on your head or you would donate $100, but soon enough people just did both and they would name 3 more people. The challenge went"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWzJvR6ooOY&t=22s)

### Example 9
> "of August 2014: That girlfriend that he went to get on the night of diagnosis is now his wife, and Pete and Julie have given me my granddaughter, Lucy Fitzgerald Frates. Lucy Fitzgerald Frates came two weeks early as the exclamation point on August 31st, 2014."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-mXnUoUXM&t=1073s)

### Example 10
> "Okay, what treatment? Let's go. What do we do? Let's go." And he looked at us, and he said, "Mr. and Mrs. Frates, I'm sorry to tell you this, but there's no treatment and there's no cure." We were the worst culprits."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-mXnUoUXM&t=234s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [frabs](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/frabs), [fracas](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fracas), [fracks](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fracks), [fracted](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fracted), [fracts](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fracts), [fractus](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fractus), [frags](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/frags), [frails](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/frails)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "frates" correctly?
"frates" is pronounced `/frætɛs/`. Syllable breakdown: **fra·tes**.

### What does "frates" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "frates" in daily English.

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