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How to pronounce “optional”
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Pronunciation guide for optional
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of optional with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Yves Morieux
to invite 50 people with 25 optional--
- Definition summary
- Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce optional
Yves Morieux
to invite 50 people with 25 optional--
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “optional”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
- [Noun]
- Something that is not compulsory, especially part of an academic course.
- (programming, sometimes capitalized) In various programming languages, a kind of variable that is assigned a specific data type but may or may not hold an actual value.
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