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infinitive

How many syllables in infinitive?

  4 syllables

Divide infinitive into syllables:   in-fin-i-tive
Stressed syllable in infinitive:   in-fin-i-tive
How to pronounce infinitive:   in-fin-i-tiv
How to say infinitive:

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