Leaf Spelling Dictionary

emarginute puts a u in the ending

schwaEmarginate has one stressed syllable, MAR, and four unstressed ones. Those four vowels are all reduced in speech and all guessable in writing.

heard asemarginute
spelledemarginate
saidee-MAR-jin-ut

The ending is -ate: emarginate.

By the time the word reaches its last syllable there is no stress left to give the vowel a shape, so it comes out somewhere between an a and a u. Every adjective of this family takes -ate.

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