how to pronounce passionate

/ˈpæʃ.ən.ət/

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passionate is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… focused and by being passionate I then …”

meaning of passionate

Passionate means having strong feelings or emotions.

passionate frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word passionate occurs in english on average 9.2 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 passionate 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 passionate can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;