How to pronounce "detention" in Spanish
detention is pronounced with standard Spanish phonetics in Spanish. Hear authentic native speakers pronounce it in 14 clips with synchronized subtitles and timestamps below.
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Ese sitio se llama el Metropolitan Detention Center de Brooklyn y ahora mismo es la
Hear it in context: “detention”
14 clipsThe Spanish word “detention”. Phonologically, it consists of 1 syllable (detention), pronounced as a single stressed monosyllable. SayItVid indexes 14 authentic Spanish video clips demonstrating how native speakers articulate “detention” in natural connected speech, including verified broadcasts from VisualPolitik, RTVE Noticias, DW Español.
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- 🇪🇸 ESVisualPolitikClip #1 · @1:37
“incluso resignación. Si algo seguro no hay son emociones positivas. Ese sitio se llama el Metropolitan Detention Center de Brooklyn y ahora mismo es la se llama el Metropolitan Detention”
- 🇪🇸 ESRTVE NoticiasClip #2 · @91:26
“worldwide famous. Today the cost of a president have now spent six years in pretrial detention before a special court in the ha sponsored by several democratic states some of them present here that”
- 🇪🇸 ESDW EspañolClip #3 · @5:18
“disappeared without the family knowing where they were uh where they're being detained or what charges they're being held for. There are people that are in pretrial detention for years at a time without seeing uh uh without pretrial detention for years at a time without seeing uh uh without”
- 🇪🇸 ESRTVE NoticiasClip #4 · @7:30
“dramatic deterioration in conditions of detention for palestinian men women and children Under israeli custody since 7 october children Under israeli custody since 7”
- 🇪🇸 ESDW EspañolClip #5 · @5:44
“tráfico de drogas, narcoterrorismo, así que son cargos eh digamos muy fuertes los que que han puesto sobre Nicolás Maduro. En la audiencia también ha aparecido Cilia Flores ayer en el Metropolitan Detention Center. Es un la aparecido Cilia Flores ayer en el Metropolitan Detention Center. Es un la”
Pronounce: “detention”
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- detention
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