--- title: "How to pronounce \"preprogram\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"preprogram\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/p3EL1T0tx2E/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preprogram" --- # How to pronounce "preprogram" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/prɛprɒgræm/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·pro·gram** - **Parts of Speech**: verb - **VERB**: To program something in advance. - **VERB**: To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours. - *Example*: "hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "preprogram" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "century is the decline of American power inevitable almost preprogrammed well my next guest has been thinking about the rise and fall of great Powers he is the lead author of a new study published in proceedings of the national academic of Sciences that suggest countries like their populations age and the older they get the greater the probability of their demise I'm" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3EL1T0tx2E&t=67s) ### Example 2 > "This is what ARES looks like as it flies over Mars. We preprogram it. We will fly where the methane is. We will have instruments aboard the plane that will sample, every three minutes, the atmosphere of Mars." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLU7qcMYKO8&t=649s) ### Example 3 > "It was preprogrammed to answer 4,000 questions about America." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTKmcToqKRs&t=1321s) ### Example 4 > "So the child brain is preprogrammed, just as a computer is built, to obey whatever instructions it's given, in its own machine language." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 30:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAg9iGPLQ&t=1813s) ### Example 5 > "I mean you don't have to decide, it will decide for you. As long as you have preprograming for it. Why I think autonomous driving is going to be a big thing for the car industry." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gZ_23z92o&t=1911s) ### Example 6 > "And now that we're much better at the preprogramming of stem cells in the lab, people are very much more confident that we can actually do this reproducibly now." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ARUQ5LoUo&t=1695s) ### Example 7 > "Well, if the child brain is preprogrammed with that rule of thumb, obey and believe your parents, it has no means of distinguishing" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 29:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAg9iGPLQ&t=1781s) ### Example 8 > "He thought the particles for instance were basically had a mechanism in them or some kind of like gimmick built into them like a magician would have kind of a trick coin. And he thought the particles were also like trick coins that they were preprogrammed to land on one side or the other. But in the 60s and 70s that particular explanation was ruled out." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47T9WHWaU0&t=165s) ### Example 9 > "And when it was their turn to speak -- the prosecutors -- I was surprised, too. They weren't emotionless drones or robocops, preprogrammed to send people to prison. They were sons and daughters, brothers and sisters." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATCr-gQvPA&t=322s) ### Example 10 > "Or are we born, in a sense, preprogramed?" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwAIaBENww0&t=1868s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [previous](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/previous), [pretty](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pretty), [presentation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/presentation), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb), [preabsorbent](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorbent), [preabstract](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabstract), [preabundance](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabundance) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "preprogram" correctly? "preprogram" is pronounced `/prɛprɒgræm/`. 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