How to pronounce purchase in American English
“purchase” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to purchase the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“purchase” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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for humanitarian purposes, so the purchase of food, the purchase of medicine, the purchase
State Department
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We purchase samples, they come in, we purchase them at retail.
NIH
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scale asset purchase program.
Federal Reserve
Words that sound like “purchase”
Words one sound away from purchase — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “purchase”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of purchase. 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.