how to pronounce animal

/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/

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animal is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of animal in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… and at that point the animal is dead and …”

meaning of animal

Animal is a noun that refers to any living thing that has the ability to move and has a body that has a mouth, a digestive system, and a nervous system.

animal frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word animal occurs in english on average 67.5 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 animal 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 animal can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;