--- title: "How to pronounce \"make pretend\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"make pretend\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/aYwDs9LTN50/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/make-pretend" --- # How to pronounce "make pretend" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/mækɛprɛtɛnd/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ma·ke·pre·tend** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "make pretend" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "thinking about in their daily life what are the big problems they're facing so so if they're you know to make it a really easy uh example um you know make pretend you know they're like president of the united states doesn't have to be this president it could be any president so you sort of know what's more or less on their mind because the press keeps reporting it" - **Watch at 17:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwDs9LTN50&t=1038s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "We're going to make pretend when we run our focus testing workshop that your classmates here are actually good testers." - **Watch at 8:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQANWfUYeNg&t=487s) ### Example 3 > "have to address K-12 has something very different and I want to go over just a couple of data points here because I find this extraordinarily powerful and we can make pretend because it makes us feel good that we're not going to have to do things dramatically different because we don't want to injure anybody's feelings or we can wrap our head around the following facts from 1970 to 2010 40 years okay two and a half times the" - **Watch at 19:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT_rnkqXOyY&t=1174s) ### Example 4 > "and you know the second is you know you're going to meet somebody so let's take the easiest one which is you know you're going to meet somebody and you you start trying to make pretend you're them it's really easy what's on their mind what are they thinking about in their daily life what are the big problems they're facing so so if they're" - **Watch at 17:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwDs9LTN50&t=1022s) ## How to Pronounce "make pretend" - **Syllables**: ma · ke · pre · tend - **IPA**: `/mækɛprɛtɛnd/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [make](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/make), [pretend](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pretend) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “make pretend”? “make pretend” is pronounced /mækɛprɛtɛnd/ (ma · ke · pre · tend). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “make pretend”? “make pretend” has 4 syllables: ma · ke · pre · tend. ### How can I hear “make pretend” used in real sentences? This page has 4 real-world video examples of “make pretend” with synchronized subtitles. 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