English Translation
I have no more than five dollars.
Before a consonant, cinq should be pronounced without the k sound, right? It seems the machine voice doesn’t apply this rule.
Well, errrm, … having read your comment I realised that I wasn’t actually sure any more (i.e. from what I’d heard on Youtube videos etc. in everyday usage, as opposed to what is taught in the classroom). So I thought “what does the interweb say?”.
From discussions such as this one as an example -
cinq (prononciation) | WordReference Forums
and this one from Reddit -
When do we pronounce the last consonant of the numbers (Cinq/huit/dix…) ? : French (reddit.com)
it appears that there are some French people who pronounce the k sound in almost all cases, and then there are others that don’t. It might be regional, it might be a gradual change in the spoken language, e.g. perhaps younger people tend to pronounce it.
Thanks for raising this, it’s been an interesting diversion.
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A tricky subject, indeed!
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