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i
Hear the sound of i
Final i is not always a full, separate vowel. In many plurals such as bani and elevi it is reduced and softens the preceding consonant; in a loanword such as taxi, i is a full, clearly heard vowel.
This plays the Romanian /i/ sound by itself. In words, final i varies with the preceding consonant and the word.
All playback uses browser speech synthesis, not reviewed speaker recordings.
Separate the letter sound from its word-final role
i/i/
The basic i sound is clear, but word-final i is not always pronounced as a full vowel. Hear the difference in real words.
ban
money / coin
elev
student / pupil
taxi
taxi