kill_man

[wraith elbow]

Please be patient

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[sinful ermine]

Do you have an audio/video example? It's hard to understand what you're talking about exactly

Are you talking about this by any chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W3jHGgJW5A

[spice cove]

i lost the word that had a pronunciation like this unfortunately, i'll try and hunt it down

[spice cove]

it wasn't this

this is embarrassing, i guess i was hallucinating lol

every pronunciation i look up has that "n(uh)"

is it safe to say that french words ending with a non nasal sound always fully pronounce the last consonant (semaine, cheval, usine) at the end of speaking? are there any exceptions (other than liaisons)?

i guess its better to compare to english, the pronunciation for semaine has the little "ghost" ending i was talking about where the vocal chords stay active the entire "n" sound, while the pronunciation for man doesn't have that and the vocal chords die off in the middle of the n sound

is that the case for every consonant sound?

sorry for not articulating the initial question very well I think this gets closer to what I was trying to figure out

i think the main thing that tripped me up here is the ending sounds having the same IPA (/n/) while they sound obviously different to me

[sinful ermine]

ah I see what you mean. Some people do it, some people don't. It varies a lot between individual speakers.

https://forvo.com/word/semaine/#fr
For example here the first two people do it, while the third and fourth don't.