How to pronounce pretending in American English
“pretending” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to pretending the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “pretending” in: all accents · British English (339 clips)
“pretending” in real sentences — American speakers
201 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Pretending to live in Virginia.
NIST
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Some women were pretending as if they were away on a job, some women pretending as
Dept of Justice
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it, pretending it did not exist.
National Archives
Words that sound like “pretending”
Words one sound away from pretending — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “pretending”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pretending. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.