/ð/ as in "feather"

/ð/ is a voiced dental fricative of General American English, as in "feather" and "mother." To produce it, tongue tip between teeth, vibrate your vocal cords. Phoneme provides native-speaker audio and minimal-pair contrasts so learners can hear and practice this consonant.

How to make /ð/

voiced dental fricative — tongue tip between teeth, vibrate your vocal cords.

Sounds that learners confuse with /ð/

• /ð/ vs /d/ — /d/ as in "door"
• /ð/ vs /z/ — /z/ as in "zoo"

Minimal pairs for /ð/

/ð/ vs /d/

/ð/	/d/
they	day
then	den
there	dare
though	dough
those	dose
seethe	seed
loathe	load
breathe	breed

/ð/ vs /z/

/ð/	/z/
seethe	seize
bathe	bays
loathe	lows
breathe	breeze