Asked by ja

Look at the Spanish word below and decide if the “d” is pronounced like the English “d”, the English “th”, or extremely soft/omitted.

verdad
a.
English “d”
c.
extremely soft/omitted
b.
English “th”

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
c.

Final -d in Spanish is very soft and often weakened or dropped. In careful speech it's a voiced dental fricative/approximant [ð] (not an English plosive "d"); in casual speech it's frequently omitted.