Both the A and I have short sounds (ah-rid).
A and i
There are two : a long E and a schwa.
one vowel is in the word "I'll", which is short for I will
The word "pretty" is 2 syllables. When you pronounce the word, it comes out as 2 sounds: "pret" and "ty." The word "pretty" has 2 vowel sounds, coming from the 'e' and the 'y' in the word. A syllable is a unit of pronunciation that has one vowel sound, with or without consonants framing it, that forms part of (or a whole) word.
There are only one vowel, which is "u," in the word "fun."
The number of breathes (or stops) it takes to say a word, or the number of vowel sounds in a word are both good indications of how many syllables are in a word.For example:The word "divided" di-vi-ded is three syllables. (3 vowels, 3 vowel sounds, 3 syllables.) but the word "divide" di-vide is two syllables (3 vowels, 2 vowel sounds, 2 syllables.)It is important to remember that just because a word has a certain number of vowels does not mean that it also has the same number of syllables.The name "Juan" has two vowels, but they create one sound, so the name is one syllable long.
There are two short vowels in the word "cactus," the 'a' and the 'u'.
Just one short vowel, the O. The Y is a vowel but has a long E sound.
There are 3 : a short U and 2 schwa sounds.
There are two vowel sounds in the word "running": the short "u" sound in the first syllable and the short "i" sound in the second syllable.
There are 4 vowel sounds : long U (OO), schwa for the first E, short or umlaut A, and short I for the last E.
There are 2. The I has a schwa sound (juh), and the A is a short A (raff).The E is silent.
There are 2, a schwa for the A and a short U. (uh-mung)
Only one. But the AU vowel pair may be pronounced as a short A (ant) or as an AW sound (umlaut A).
No. Many -ar words have R-shaped short A sounds (arr) that are different from a short A because they include a pseudo-vowel sound from the R. (see related link)
Two:Presume (short e, long u)The second E is silent.
There are many words, but one example is the word "father" in which the 'a' sounds like the 'o' in box.
The terms "long" and "short" have nothing to do with the number of vowels, or the number of letters in a word. The long and short refer to the sound of the vowels. Originally it referred to passage of time, where a "short" vowel would take less time to express than a "long" vowel. But long and short are just very simple terms for some basic vowel sounds, and there are vowel sounds that are neither short or long. In English, the long vowel sounds are those that "say the name" of the vowel : A (ay), E (ee), I (eye), O (oh) and U (yoo, but can also be a long oo sound). The short vowels have a truncated sound : ah, eh, ih, aah, and uh.