--- title: "How to pronounce \"subtles\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"subtles\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/-wxpjIdvIHw/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subtles" --- # How to pronounce "subtles" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/sʌbtlɛs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **sub·tles** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "subtles" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "subtlest Graces dilated upon music and the theater in short all which Grecian" - **Watch at 1:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wxpjIdvIHw&t=62s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "subtlest things are the easiest ones in the sense of easy mathematically." - **Watch at 1:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0Bnf7RMUQ&t=114s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "The subtlest sophisters and most hypocritical draftsmen were set to work, and produced many ingenious exercises which might have deceived for more than an hour a cleverer man than the President." - **Watch at 60:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbkMkOScFs&t=3655s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "but not in its subtlest form, so backward induction." - **Watch at 28:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPNl-jD1vhw&t=1704s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "Only the subtlest feelings of sensation" - **Watch at 40:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWsI_Rz50A&t=2415s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "Hold on to this subtlest feeling" - **Watch at 50:33**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWsI_Rz50A&t=3033s) ### Example 7 > "and yet it needs to be light enough to put across his Humanity it's getting in the subtlest of possible ways those emotions rather than as it were ears or no so all right these days cash isn't really King" - **Watch at 1:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLTeRpjoCI&t=69s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "produced by muscle stretching and by the subtlest tension of the vocal" - **Watch at 268:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2anjZJAuw&t=16117s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "Four--and I think this is the subtlest and this is why I wanted you to hear it in my interrupted reading in Spanish--" - **Watch at 63:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDTnfMPPaM&t=3811s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "who has not coexistent in our thought with the purest and subtlest truth? I" - **Watch at 31:17**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq62GrwmGg4&t=1877s) ## How to Pronounce "subtles" - **Syllables**: sub · tles - **IPA**: `/sʌbtlɛs/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [subtle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subtle) ### Related Terms [unsubtle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/unsubtle), [nonsubtle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonsubtle), [oversubtle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/oversubtle), [supersubtle](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/supersubtle) ## Related Pronunciations [sub](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sub), [suba](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/suba), [subabbot](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subabbot), [subabdominal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subabdominal), [subability](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subability), [subabortive](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subabortive), [subabsolute](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subabsolute), [subabul](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/subabul) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “subtles”? “subtles” is pronounced /sʌbtlɛs/ (sub · tles). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “subtles”? “subtles” has 2 syllables: sub · tles. ### What does “subtles” mean? third-person singular simple present indicative of subtle ### How can I hear “subtles” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “subtles” with synchronized subtitles. 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