TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “afford”
Hear “afford” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for afford
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of afford with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- John Walker: Re-creating great performances 13 minutes, 42 seconds
Lots of you can afford to buy one of these.
- Definition summary
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce afford
John Walker: Re-creating great performances 13 minutes, 42 seconds
Lots of you can afford to buy one of these.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “afford”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.
- (obsolete) To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss.
- (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
Practice Nearby Words
give, yield, open, offer, enable, grant, procure, empower, permit, confer, accept, help, allow, acquire, provide, bring, remunerate, allowed, obtain, facilitate, accommodate, ensure, repay, get, defray, make, guarantee, ability, accord, tolerate, buying, pay, buy, cope, paid, ask, meet, purchase, sustain, lend, take, stand, let, endure, withstand, how, assume, finance, resist, carry, dear, deliver, burden, incur, play, cover, shoulder, foot, lead, bear, furnish, supply, support, manage, spare, budget, bankroll, underwrite, affor, able, want, cannot, refuse, could, unable, need, forgo, sell, subsidize, enough, opportunity, offord, feasibly, forego, compete, expect, decide, begrudge, justify, cant, attend, qualify, needing, avail, choose, possibly, wanting, forced, wants, obliged
Similar Sounds
afford, afore, aford, affords, affor, afor, afeared, afar, afara, affair, award, accord, afire, afair, affaire, acord, ophir, afid, unfeared, efird, affied, unfired, acorde, offered, offord, afeard, ifor, beauford, sphered, afred, teaford, ephod, afars, afraid, effort, ford, appeared, adored, occurred, offend, assured, aboard, affairs, suffered, uttered, afoot, referred, affirmed, afforded, afield, assort, allured, attired, affording, infared, abord, afer, ushered, affined, off guard, afr, unformed, guffawed, buffered, forde, averred, afri, affaires, aforesaid, foard, up for, afat, hufford, afir, acrd, bufford, bouffard, ephyra, afit, ephors, cafard, efed, uddered, duford, accourt, the four, tofore, cord, chord, aphid, cored, coard, chored, corde, dord, doored, achord