How do you pronounce “would”?

verb

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/(w)ʊ(l)d/

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Verb: Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to form the " anterior future ", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.“On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”
Noun: Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Interjection: Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.

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