"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.
- This stress, or arsis, is usually placed on a syllable containing a long vowel.
- A short syllable contains a short vowel with no following consonants.
- When it contains a vowel that may have been either short or long in Classical Latin, stress is ambiguous.
- Harmonizing suffixes added to such words contain front vowels.
- Heavy syllables contain short vowels followed by a semi-vowel.
- There is also considerable disagreement between the languages (both between the two families, and within them) in whether certain words contain a rounded vowel.
- A word can contain only one phonetically long vowel, but numerous unstressed short vowels.
- The high tone occurs in penultimate syllables when the final syllable contains a short vowel.
- But this concise procedure cannot be applied in every case, since the syllable may not contain a suitable vowel for modification.
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