How To Pronounce Give

In British English, give is pronounced /ɡɪv/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɡɪv]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɡɪv/.

Give has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.