Welcome to the practice page for /i/ vowel (as in ‘eat’) in General American English (GenAm).
Eat | Feet | Cheap | Feed | Field |
Dean | Clean | Dear | Glee | Greet |
Free | Leak | Peach | Real | Sheet |
Beach | Leap | Read | Sleep | Speech |
Bean | Me | Screen | Sweet | Jeans |
/i/ Phrases- Repeated Occurrence |
Sweet tea | We feed | Heal feet | Meet me | Key piece |
Real cheap | Field pea | Dear Chief | Clean screen | Peach cream |
Sneak sleep | Sea eel | Eat meat | Be mean | Teal beed |
Beach breeze | Seek sheep | Green bean | Deep beep | Sweep street |
Brief fee | Need peace | Cheat sheet | Stream freeze | Keep jeep |
/i/ Phrases- Single Occurrence |
Two feet | Will feed | Football field | Is free | Glee club |
Dirt cheap | Should clean | Floor creak | Shaving cream | Good deal |
Slow creep | Be careful | One bead | Nice beach | Bird beak |
Balance beam | Lima bean | A beast | Drum beat | Car beep |
Did bleed | Nice breeze | Press brief | Big fee | Deep hole |
/i/ Sentences- Repeated Occurrence |
The peach pit seemed sweet | We will eat by the creek for a fee |
The team will keep the jeep | We have to weed the green grass |
She does like a deal on sweet tea | The brief beep means it’s time to meet |
Leave me alone before my big test | We can email the deal this evening |
The eel will reach the green sea | The free movie screen will stream later |
/i/ Sentences- Single Occurrence |
There is a high fee for this | I like holidays for the treats |
My bike wheel fell off | Pike’s Peak is in Colorado |
I want to eat right now | What a neat trick that was |
I will speak to him | First peel the carrots for dinner |
Key West is absolutely perfect | This week is super hectic for her |