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Try LingUp Now!Start with the 'str' sound. Your tongue tip is behind your top teeth for 's' and 't', then pulls back for 'r'.
Move to the long 'i' sound /aɪ/. Open your mouth for 'ah' and glide into an 'ee' sound.
Finish with the 'f' sound. Touch your top teeth to your bottom lip and push air out without vibrating your throat.
Adding a vowel before the word (es-trife).
Using a short 'i' sound like in 'sit' (strif).
Pronouncing the final 'f' as a 'p' (stripe).
same as American
same as American
Combine 's', 't', and 'r' very quickly with no vowels between them. Practice by saying 'street' or 'strong'. Your tongue moves fast.
It is a long 'i' sound, like in 'ice', 'bike', or 'time'. It sounds like saying 'ah-ee' quickly.
'Strife' has only one syllable. It is a single, short beat. Do not add extra sounds.
Angry or bitter disagreement over important issues; conflict.
/straɪv/
To try very hard to do something.
/ˈstraɪvɪŋ/
The act of making great efforts.
/ˈstrɪvən/
The past participle of 'strive'.
'strife' ends with a voiceless 'f' sound, but 'strive' ends with a voiced 'v' sound.
'striving' adds a second syllable '-ing' (/ɪŋ/) and stress is on the first syllable.
'striven' has a short 'i' vowel sound (/ɪ/) and two syllables, unlike the long 'i' in 'strife'.
To distinguish 'strife' (/f/) from 'strive' (/v/), touch your throat. You will feel a vibration for the 'v' sound, but not for the 'f' sound.
The silent 'e' at the end of 'strife' makes the 'i' a long vowel sound (/aɪ/). Remember this rule for words like 'life', 'wife', and 'knife'.
