how to pronounce appreciate

/əpˈɹiːʃiːˌɛɪt/

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the above transcription of appreciate is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

appreciate is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of appreciate in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… people do and we don't appreciate being …”

meaning of appreciate

Appreciate means to value or esteem highly.

appreciate frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word appreciate occurs in english on average 57.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics appreciate can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that appreciate can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;