"Dress up" has 2 syllables. Dress (1) up (1).
"Never give up" has four syllables. Nev-er - give - up.
The word impossible has four syllables. The syllables in the word are im-pos-si-ble.
Syllables refer to the natural breaks in the sounds that make up words. In the word catastrophe, there are four syllables.
You might dress up stylishly. You could make a splash and dress up daringly. Or you may dare to dress up barely. You could dress up horribly. You may like to dress up cutely. Or, perhaps dress up acutely.
There is one syllable in the word white. A good trick to find syllables is to see how many times your jaw moves up and down when you say a word.
There are three syllables. Hair-dress-er.
The word "dresses" has two syllables. It can be broken down as "dress-es."
The word "dress" only has one syllable, -dress-.
There are two syllables divided like so: Ad-dress.
Three syllables.
There are two syllables. Up-roar.
There are four syllables. Fur-i-ous-ly.
There are two syllables. Up-state.
There are two syllables in uphold. (up-hold)
The word upsetting has three syllables. (Up-sett-ing)
Starvation is made up of 3 syllables. Star'va'tion
"Never give up" has four syllables. Nev-er - give - up.