how to pronounce northern

/ˈnɔː.ðən/

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northern is pronounced in two syllables

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ɔː

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

“… sand bounded on the northern side by the …”

meaning of northern

Northern means in or towards the north.

northern frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word northern occurs in english on average 109.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) life, nature, and living environment;