Phonetics Guide
Learn the sounds of Romanian with our comprehensive IPA guide. Understand how each phoneme is pronounced with real word examples.
Vowels
Monophthong vowel sounds
Short "e" sound as in "bed"
Schwa - unstressed neutral vowel
Short "i" sound as in "sit"
"a" sound as in "cat"
Long "ee" sound as in "see"
Diphthongs
Gliding vowel sounds
Long "a" sound as in "day"
"ow" sound as in "now"
Consonants
Consonant sounds
Voiceless alveolar plosive
Alveolar approximant
Alveolar nasal
Alveolar lateral approximant
Voiceless alveolar fricative
Voiceless velar plosive
Bilabial nasal
Voiceless bilabial plosive
Voiced alveolar plosive
"y" sound as in "yes"
"sh" sound as in "she"
Voiced bilabial plosive
Voiced alveolar fricative
Voiceless labiodental fricative
Voiced labiodental fricative
"zh" sound as in "measure"
Voiceless glottal fricative
"w" sound as in "we"
"ng" sound as in "sing"
Voiced velar plosive
"j" sound as in "judge"
"ch" sound as in "church"
Voiced dental fricative (th as in "this")
Voiceless dental fricative (th as in "think")
Common Patterns
Frequent phonetic patterns