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French · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "le lit" in French?
luh LEE — two "l" sounds and a pure "ee". The final "t" is silent.
The phrase peaks on LIT, one syllable. Two "l"s in a row across the article boundary makes it a small tongue exercise — keep both light rather than letting either go dark.
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Hear it in a sentence
Je vais au lit tôt.
I go to bed early.
Listen: Je vais au lit tôt.
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"Je vais au lit tôt" uses "au", the contraction of "à le". "Tôt" has a circumflex marking a lost "s" and ends in a silent "t", so it is one clean "oh". Note that the more common way to say this is "je me couche tôt", using the reflexive verb — "aller au lit" is a bit more literal.
Where English speakers slip
Learners pronounce the "t", producing "leet", and often use the dark English "l" that turns the word into something like "lull". Both "l"s should be bright and forward. And the word is a homophone of "lie" (the verb "lire" conjugated) — "il lit" means he reads, pronounced identically to "le lit".