Asked • 05/05/19

How is מָחֳרָתַייִם commonly pronounced in colloquial / proper Modern Hebrew?

By now I've found like a dozen different answers for how מָחֳרָתַייִם is actually spoken nowadays: * [English Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D) (IPA) * Modern "properly": /moχ.ʁaˈta.jim/, /mo.χo.ʁaˈta.jim/ * Modern "commonly": /moχ.ʁoˈta.jim/ * Sephardi: /ma.ħo.raˈθa.jim/, /ma.ħo.raˈta.jim/ * [Hebrew Wiktionary](https://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/מחרתים): * mokhoratayim * makhoratayim * [Pealim](https://www.pealim.com/dict/4828-mochoratayim/) (switch is in Preferences): * Modern: mochoratāyim * Ashkenazi: mochorosayim * Prolog (app): * mochorotājim * again various *other* answers from native speakers (Maybe there's yet something else in Rav Milim, but I don't have a subscription. Also, not exactly helpful that the non-IPA answers don't reliably tell which language's / dialect's vowel pronunciation they follow.) The audio in the Duolingo curse seems to follow the "Sephardi" pronunciation, but then there's again others in sentences: [1](https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17013924) / [2](https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/18634326/למה-לא-מחרתיים) (same speaker), [3](https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/27082120/אני-אתקשר-אליה-מחרתיים), … or on forvo: [1/2](https://forvo.com/word/מחרתיים), [2](https://forvo.com/word/מחרתים) By frequency I'd go with "mochoratāyim", but that seems to only be the proper ("newscaster") pronunciation? *e:* Thanks for all the answers!

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