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# consonantal

«consonantal» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with consonants, or made of consonants** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Consonantal means to do with consonants, or made of consonants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English and phonics lessons, consonants are sounds like b, t, m, s, made by blocking the air with lips, tongue or teeth; vowels are open sounds. «Consonantal sounds» or a «consonantal cluster» like «str» in «street». Some writing systems, such as Hebrew and Arabic, are consonantal: they mostly write only consonants.

### examples

- «Str» is a consonantal cluster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x1)
- Hebrew uses a mostly consonantal alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x2)
- The word «rhythm» is very consonantal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x3)
- We practised consonantal sounds in phonics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x4)
- Welsh has some unusual consonantal sounds, like «ll». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x5)
- A consonantal sound blocks the air for a moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/#x6)

### note

From «consonant» + «-al». Opposite: vocalic (about vowels). Technical word for language study.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «consonantal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consonantal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.