How to pronounce pretends in American English
“pretends” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to pretends the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “pretends” in: all accents · British English (70 clips)
“pretends” in real sentences — American speakers
26 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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with the emphasis on the pretends.
NASA
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He is not a man who pretends.
State Department
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The criminal pretends to work for a big tech company like Microsoft or Apple.
Dept of Justice
Words that sound like “pretends”
Words one sound away from pretends — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “pretends”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pretends. 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.