how to pronounce kindly

/ˈkaɪndliː/

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the above transcription of kindly 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.

kindly is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… moving parts kindly bagelfest lots of …”

meaning of kindly

Kindly means politely, with kindness.

kindly frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word kindly occurs in english on average 13.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics kindly 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 kindly can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;