Capital has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. | |
| 2. | A decision of capital importance was made at the nation's capital this morning. | |
| 3. | The name Algeria comes from "Al-Jazair" which means "islands" in Arabic. The country is named after its capital city which, in turn, was named after four little islands that were located a few dozens of yards off the coast of the old city of Algiers. It was the Berber dynasty of the Zirids that made Algiers the capital of their kingdom in the 10th century AD. | |
| 4. | In addition to being the capital of the United Kingdom, London is also the capital of England. | |
| 5. | "Do you know what the capital of America is?" "I didn't know that a continent had a capital." | |
| 6. | "I was an investment banker, the child of refugees, who felt unfulfilled with their own life and my contribution to society,” he said. “So I felt young people had to choose: be good or be cold-hearted investment bankers. So I created The Hult Prize as a platform to equip them, arm them, and then deploy capital to these young people and their ideas; capital that can help them change the world." | |
| 7. | You must employ your capital well. | |
| 8. | Kyoto was the former capital of Japan. | |
| 9. | Kyoto was an old capital of Japan. | |
| 10. | How about stopping over at Kyoto and sightseeing at the old capital? |