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# How to pronounce "collocates" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kɒllɒkætɛs/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **col·lo·ca·tes**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: third-person singular simple present indicative of collocate

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (10 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "collocates" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Well, I think it's the way she collocates her words very well. Collocates? What do you mean by that? Well, the way, the words she uses, they go together very naturally."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4X2IVigD1c&t=293s)

### Example 2
> "collocates with designer stubble but with real world issues and real world solutions so"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGQ4S3OpFc&t=529s)

### Example 3
> "Advice strongly collocates with the verbs 'give' and 'take'. You can give advice or you can take someone's advice. For example, my friend gave me some relationship advice but I thought it was bad"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92IxSTYQ18&t=49s)

### Example 4
> "and across genre it collocates most strongly with zealand not with nu but"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUzmA9Bmb4&t=1963s)

### Example 5
> "simulation we then find who collocates with whom who has contact with whom which we then can then use to uh create"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lBB0yFeMM&t=363s)

### Example 6
> "looking at those first couple of lines that at Kolob collocates with above earlier previously as already so we get"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 26:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUzmA9Bmb4&t=1618s)

### Example 7
> "Well, I think it's the way she collocates her words very well."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4X2IVigD1c&t=289s)

### Example 8
> "the this sort of default 1 minus 5 or plus 5 this means this is collocates with words before it or after it to the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 26:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUzmA9Bmb4&t=1603s)

### Example 9
> "So, 'take' is the verb that, kind of, collocates with 'centre stage': like 'take centre stage' – receives the most attention."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKSYAtcu_7g&t=333s)

### Example 10
> "something like get their trust. But you got to think in English, what verb collocates with the word trust. Do we always get someone's trust or get"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-SZq7glN8&t=521s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Synonyms**: [co-locate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/co-locate)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "collocates" correctly?
"collocates" is pronounced `/kɒllɒkætɛs/`. Syllable breakdown: **col·lo·ca·tes**.

### What does "collocates" mean in context?
third-person singular simple present indicative of collocate

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