Respective has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Go to your respective seats. | |
| 2. | Let's discuss the respective merits of the candidates. | |
| 3. | They went home to their respective houses. | |
| 4. | Tatoeba: Where we try to be experts in our respective languages and... well, we try. | |
| 5. | When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages. | |
| 6. | Let's study the verbs and their respective patterns. | |
| 7. | The goal of Spartacus was to gain freedom and to allow all his followers to return to their respective homelands of origin, in Thrace, Gaul, Germany. | |
| 8. | We each went to our respective homes. | |
| 9. | They took their respective places in line. | |
| 10. | Each member of the city council received an annual allocation of discretionary funds which could be used to support special projects in their respective council districts. |