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How to pronounce y in English

Y
/waɪ/

Examples from movies with Y

Y'all need to be at a yoga class or something.
Knocked Up You Old, She Pregnant
Fuck y'all if you doubt me! I'm a piece of fuckin' white trash, I say it proudly.
8 Mile - Rabbit Battles Papa Doc
I'll forget you had hostages, and y'all won't get that much time.
Ride Along - Save the Strippers
Fucking 30 day motherfuckers. Let me give y'all a little newsflash.
Dallas Buyers Club - You Tested Positive for HIV
Why y'all standing there, just looking at shit? Do something!
Next Friday - Auntie Suga
You know, it's bigger than y'all's backyard.
Next Friday - Auntie Suga
Why did y'all sit and let her do this shit?
Next Friday - Day-Day's Problems
What's up with y'all'? I mean, where'd you meet her?
Next Friday - Day-Day's Problems
Why didn't y'all do nothing when that fat bitch jumped on me?
Next Friday - Day-Day's Problems
I figured you'd make a case for how slavery got y'all oppressed and...
Barbershop - Reparations
He 'bout to come and bust a little rhyme for y'all.
Straight Outta Compton - Gangsta Gangsta
I want y'all to give it up for Ice-motherfuckin'-Cube!
Straight Outta Compton - Gangsta Gangsta
Let's start counting this money, man, before y'all niggas start stashin' shit.
Belly - Tommy's Crib
Tommy, what is going on? And why y'all makin' so much noise?
Belly - Tommy's Crib
Look at y'all standin' out here freezin' like dumb fucks
8 Mile - The Lunch Truck
And all y'all will get me 100 Nazi scalps taken from the heads of 100 dead Nazis.
Inglourious Basterds - One Hundred Nazi Scalps

Audio pronunciation of Y

American pronunciation

Y pronounced by Ivy (child, girl)
Y pronounced by Joanna (female)
Y pronounced by Kendra (female)
Y pronounced by Kimberly (female)
Y pronounced by Salli (female)
Y pronounced by Joey (male)
Y pronounced by Justin (child, boy)
Y pronounced by Matthew (male)

British pronunciation

Y pronounced by Amy (female)
Y pronounced by Emma (female)
Y pronounced by Brian (male)