How to Pronounce the /e/ Sound In American English
In this lesson, we are going to learn how the sound /e/ is produced by looking at the articulatory organs.
What Type of Sound Is /e/?
/e/ is a close-mid sound and is found in many words.
How to Produce /e/?
As you see in the picture, /e/ is produced when you open your mouth slightly as if you are saying "eh," and the lips must be unrounded to make a short /e/ sound. The teeth are not close like in the sound /i/ and we open the mouth a bit more than when we want to produce the /æ/ sound.
/e/ Around the World
As you see in the table below, all the common languages around the world have this sound; therefore you will not have any difficulty producing it.
Existence | Example | |
|---|---|---|
Mandarin¹ | ✔ | 也 (yě) |
Spanish | ✔ | peso |
Hindi | ✔ | जेब |
Bengali | ✔ | মেদিনী |
Portuguese | ✔ | meto |
Russian | ✔ | пень |
Japanese | ✔ | えき |
Vietnamese | ✔ | về |
Turkish | ✔ | erkek |
French | ✔ | chez |
German | ✔ | Element |
Italian | ✔ | vero |
Persian | ✔ | که |
Standard Arabic | ✔ | شَرِبَ |
Korean | ✔ | 메주 |
Indonesian | ✔ | serong |
Filipino | ✔ | eh |
Hungarian | ✔ | él |
Dutch | ✔ | ezel |
Polish | x | - |
Romanian | ✔ | erou |
Swedish² | ✔ | fett |
Czech | x | - |
Greek | ✔ | θεός |
Ukrainian | ✔ | ефі́рний |
Urdu | ✔ | جیب |
¹ The sound is close, but not identical.
² Finland Swedish has this sound.
Listening
Let us listen to the pronunciation of the /e/ sound which has been mentioned below:
Down below, there are two other sounds similar to the /e/ sound. At first, listen to the /æ/ sound and then listen to the /i/ sound:
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