How to pronounce “ligate” in English

So, here's what I claim. I claim that every time two of those come together, there's a chance for a water molecule to leave and produce what is called an ester bond.Then see if there's any double-stranded DNA. If we're right, we should see double-stranded DNA there. Furthermore, if we see it and ligate the products together, sequence the products,

So there is this guy by the name of Georges Coedes who is originally a Hungarian Jew who immigrated to Franceand changed his name so it looks very French with the C-O-E-D-E-S and an accent grave, and the O and the E are ligated, and so it looks very,very French. And he just had this natural ability-- I'm very fascinated by people who have a natural ability