how to pronounce national

/ˈnæʃənəl/

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national is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… of the air force national guard and they …”

meaning of national

National means belonging to a whole country.

national frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word national occurs in english on average 160.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;