A few days ago
angel

What does “Schwa” mean?

OK so i’ve been doing my spelling homework and i come up with the word schwa in the question and i do not know what the sound or what it means? I asked my mom and sh did not know ethier so if anyone knows what it means please give me the answer!

THANK YOU!

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A few days ago
sadie_oyes

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English phonetic alphabet

schwa: the sound “uh.” For example, the vowel sound heard at the beginning of the word alone. The schwa is represented by the symbol /a/ and any of the vowel letters.

http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/Reading/glossary_reading_terms.htm

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A few days ago
BlueBlue
wow, what kind of spelling homework is this? What grade is this?

“Schwa is a name of a phonetic letter in the phonetic alphabet”

Phonetics are used to spell out words in a way to where you can sound them out.

I do not have a phonetic keyboard, so it’s hard to show you. If you look in the dictionary, and look up any word, right after it you will see the word spelled a little funny…..that’s phonetics.

A “schwa” looks like an upside down e. That’s exactly how you would write it. Like an upside down e.

The sound will be harder to describe. I will list some words that have the schwa and then put the in capitals so you can tell.

The sounds is like “uhh”

lis…A

j..U…nk

U…nderneath

pl..U…g

j…U…g

n…U…gget

dr…U…g

My name is the first one…it has a “schwa”. It’s at the very end. Lis..uhhhh…or Lisa.

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A few days ago
Daniel H
he word “schwa” is from the Hebrew word שְׁוָא (šěwā’, /ʃəˈwa/), meaning “nought”—it originally referred to one of the niqqud vowel points used with the Hebrew alphabet, which looks like a vertical pair of dots under a letter. This sign has two uses: one to indicate the schwa vowel-sound and one to indicate the complete absence of a vowel. These uses do not conflict because schwa is, in Hebrew, an epenthetic vowel, the equivalent of “no vowel at all”.

Sometimes the term “schwa” is used for any epenthetic vowel; however, different languages use different epenthetic vowels.

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A few days ago
theory75
schwa

1 : an unstressed mid-central vowel (as the usual sound of the first and last vowels of the English word America)

2 : the symbol & used for the schwa sound and less widely for a similarly articulated stressed vowel (as in cut)

Essentially the sound “uh”

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4 years ago
totten
Schwa Definition
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6 years ago
Anonymous
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What does "Schwa" mean?
OK so i've been doing my spelling homework and i come up with the word schwa in the question and i do not know what the sound or what it means? I asked my mom and sh did not know ethier so if anyone knows what it means please give me the answer!

THANK YOU!

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A few days ago
allysontessmann
What is the question? In diction, a schwa is that upside down “e” symbol that means that the word gets a more anglicised pronunciation. It’s the equivalent of crossing “eh” and “ah” at the same time.
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4 years ago
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What Is Schwa
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A few days ago
Anonymous
it is when ‘er’ is pronounced as a soft ‘a’

like Novemb-a, instead of Novemb-er

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