Tekanan kata dalam bahasa Inggris: irama yang membuat Anda dipahami
PHOtograph, phoTOgraphy, photoGRAPHic — menempatkan tekanan dengan tepat lebih penting daripada satu suara saja. Berikut pola-pola yang mencakup kebanyakan kata.
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You can pronounce every sound in a word perfectly and still not be understood — if the stress is on the wrong syllable. Native listeners recognise words by their shape first: which syllable is loud, long and high.
Say deSERT instead of DEsert and you have changed the word. Say comFORtable and people will need a second to decode it.
What stress actually is
Suku kata yang mendapat tekanan adalah:
- lebih keras,
- lebih panjang,
- lebih tinggi nadanya,
- dan memiliki vokal yang penuh serta jelas — sementara suku kata di sekitarnya sering melemah menjadi schwa
/ə/.
Patterns that cover most words
English stress is not random. These rules are not perfect, but they are right far more often than guessing:
| Pola | Contoh |
|---|---|
| Two-syllable kata benda dan kata sifat stress the first syllable | TAble, HAPpy, WINdow |
| Two-syllable kata kerja stress the second | beGIN, reLAX, deCIDE |
| Same word, noun vs verb | a REcord / to reCORD, a PREsent / to preSENT |
| Words ending in -tion, -sion, -ic stress the syllable before | inforMAtion, deCIsion, enerGEtic |
| Words ending in -ity, -graphy, -logy stress the third from the end | possiBIlity, phoTOgraphy, biOlogy |
Watch the stress move
The same root changes its stress as the ending changes:
- PHOtograph → phoTOgrapher → photoGRAphic
- eCOnomy → ecoNOmic
- Educate → eduCAtion
How to practise stress
- Ketik atau ketuk meja pada suku kata yang mendapat tekanan sambil mengucapkan kata tersebut.
- Berlebihan: buatnya dua kali lebih lama daripada yang terasa alami.
- Kemudian biarkan suku kata lain menjadi tenang dan cepat.
In HolosAccent you listen to a native reference of every phrase first, then record your own take and replay the two side by side. Hearing your PHOtograph next to the native one is the fastest way to notice when the beat lands in the wrong place.
