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Serbia Pronunciation
Serbia is pronounced SUR-bee-uh, IPA /ˈsɝbiə/.
SUR-bee-uh
US /ˈsɝbiə/
Syllables: SUR · bee · uh (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun (proper): A landlocked country in the Balkans, with its capital at Belgrade.
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Serbia in a Sentence
- Serbia shares a border with seven countries.
- We changed trains twice crossing Serbia.
- Raspberries from Serbia fill half the freezers in Europe.
Common Mispronunciations of Serbia
Not SUR-byuh
Three beats here, and the middle one is a clean bee with a vowel of its own.
Not SER-bee-uh
An er in front of a consonant gives the sound in fern, so the name opens on SUR.
Tip: Serbia and Siberia are swapped constantly in speech: three beats against four, and nothing else alike.
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