how to pronounce festival

/fɛs.ti.val/

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festival is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of festival in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… c'était le festival quoi il ya eu les …”

meanings of festival

noun:

Festival.

festival frequency in french - B1 level of CEFR

the word festival occurs in french on average 45.7 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.