"consecutive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In other cases, Portuguese reduces consecutive vowels to a diphthong, again resulting in one syllable fewer:
- However, strings of consecutive vowels are possible - indeed prevalent - in the language.
- Vowel coalescence or fusion, which is the process by which two consecutive vowels merge, is a fairly common phenomenon throughout Japan.
- In two consecutive vowels the stressed vowel is always long and the unstressed is always short.
- In Portuguese, the grave accent indicates the contraction of two consecutive vowels in adjacent words (crasis).
- A vowel is dropped before another vowel, so there are never two consecutive vowels.
- Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels.
- For the following, there are alternative forms which elide the consecutive vowels, such as kilannum, megannum, etc.
- There can never be multiple consecutive vowels in Swedish; they are always replaced with a single vowel.
- Assimilation of consecutive vowels: o urubu ("the vulture") becomes u rubu.
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