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# How to pronounce "colonised" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kɒlɒnɪsɛd/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **co·lo·ni·sed**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: simple past and past participle of colonise

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

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

### Example 1
> "What would you say to those that say, "Look, this is hundreds of years later." like colonised nations kind of thing."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 57:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOL1JyxqZE&t=3473s)

### Example 2
> "... where they have colonised And we’ll continue to monitor these sites very well..."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trc8ZNN5aW0&t=381s)

### Example 3
> "rights not to be colonised, rights not to experience segregation or apartheid or Jim Crow,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOL1JyxqZE&t=88s)

### Example 4
> "in every colonised setting, in continuing to care for Country, maintain Language and Law and protect knowledge systems in the face of centuries of violence, dispossession and"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5o0w_x7xqo&t=84s)

### Example 5
> "dispossess its colonised territories of lands, waters and species for settlement by the coloniser. The rapid reproduction of settled humans, their animals, plant life and"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZNykWtEmdU&t=1155s)

### Example 6
> "How to extract wealth from colonised spaces and the people, how to plunder the wealth of indigenous people,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOL1JyxqZE&t=414s)

### Example 7
> "you like the way the colonised people viewed our law um but they were very very they're the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 62:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLs3rNRTQw&t=3763s)

### Example 8
> "governance and laws on the colonised british colonialism also included the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWgLPKY9GB8&t=609s)

### Example 9
> "The main front page story is about the sinking of a U. S. battleship, the Maine, in Havana Harbor a few days earlier. Cuba, which was colonised by Spain, was in the middle of a revolution. The U. S. S. Maine was there as a show of power to protect U. S. interests in Cuban independence."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf0F4GYzWQ&t=398s)

### Example 10
> "how little of that was flowing towards the colonised."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qKLIlpZiQ&t=509s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "colonised" correctly?
"colonised" is pronounced `/kɒlɒnɪsɛd/`. Syllable breakdown: **co·lo·ni·sed**.

### What does "colonised" mean in context?
simple past and past participle of colonise

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