How To Pronounce Perpetual

In British English, perpetual is pronounced /pəˈpetʃ.u.əl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pəˈpʰetʃʷ.u.əɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /pərˈpetʃ.u.əl/.

Perpetual has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.