Proper Pronunciation Guide
perhaps
[pɚ 
hæps]
Tips:
- Be sure to pronounce this word as two distinct syllables—and not as one—[præps].
- Be sure to pronounce the consonant /h/ at the beginning of the second syllable.
Practice Sentences:
| Perhaps we should wait until it stops raining. | |
| He perhaps will file the motion later today. | |
| They will perhaps take a vacation in September. |
Notes:
While “perhaps” is an adverb meaning possibly or maybe, the poet e.e.cummings uses it as an adjective when he writes“Spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things, while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there) and without breaking anything.”
from “Spring is like a perhaps hand” 1925, by e.e.cummings