sang · sung The difference in meaning and sound
What they mean
Sang is the simple past: "She sang at the concert." Sung is the past participle, used after have, has or had and in the passive: "She has sung there before," "The song was sung in French."
앱에서 실제로 쓰는 음성이에요. 소리를 켜 주세요.
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- American woman, younger
- American man, younger
- British woman, younger
- British woman, older
- British man, younger
- British man, older
- Australian man
What's different
Like hang and hung, this pair ends in ng, and many American voices raise the æ in front of it, so sang moves toward "seyng". Sung stays on one short, central "uh".
The grammar often gives the answer away. When it can't, as in a quick "I sang" against "I've sung", the 've is easy to miss too, and the vowel is all you have.
연구: Lambacher et al. 2002 · Lambacher et al. 2005 · Nishi & Kewley-Port 2007
æ(hat)는 넓고 밝은 소리, ʌ(hut)는 짧고 힘을 뺀 소리예요.
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