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# nasalise

«nasalise» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make a speech sound through the nose, letting air come…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (nasalise, nasalises, nasalised, nasalising)

### meaning for a pupil

To make a speech sound through the nose, letting air come out of the nose as well as the mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A word from phonics and language study: sounds like "m", "n" and "ng" are nasal, and French has nasalised vowels (as in "bon" and "vin"). People with a cold may sound less nasal because their nose is blocked.

### examples

- French speakers nasalise the vowel in "bon". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x1)
- Try to say "man" and notice how you nasalise the "a". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x2)
- Some accents nasalise vowels before "m" and "n". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x3)
- In French class we practised nasalised vowels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x4)
- When you hold your nose you cannot nasalise a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x5)
- Our teacher showed how "ng" is nasalised at the back of the mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nasalise/#x6)

### note

UK spelling "nasalise"; US spelling "nasalize". Adjective "nasal" (to do with the nose). Mainly a specialist word for language study.

### Trees and pragmatics

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