Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "could've" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "could've" appears in contexts such as: "decided not to initiate mass slaughter, eliminationism or genocide, it would not happen. And they could've always, in every instance, decided to do otherwise. This is critically important to recognize because when you shift the discussion away from this abstraction, such as ethnic conflict or transhistorical forces or globalization". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "could've" used in a real sentence?

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Our pronunciation database found 37 conversational video occurrences of "could've" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

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