--- title: "How to pronounce \"preprogramme\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"preprogramme\" 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/preprogramme" --- # How to pronounce "preprogramme" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/prɛprɒʊgrɪmm/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·pro·gramme** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Before a programme (of study, etc.). ### Example Sentences - "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" - "It was preprogrammed to answer 4,000 questions about America." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "preprogramme" 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" - **Watch at 1:07**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3EL1T0tx2E&t=67s) ### Example 2 > "It was preprogrammed to answer 4,000 questions about America." - **Watch at 22:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTKmcToqKRs&t=1321s) ### Example 3 > "So the child brain is preprogrammed, just as a computer is built, to obey whatever instructions it's given, in its own machine language." - **Watch at 30:13**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAg9iGPLQ&t=1813s) ### Example 4 > "Well, if the child brain is preprogrammed with that rule of thumb, obey and believe your parents, it has no means of distinguishing" - **Watch at 29:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAg9iGPLQ&t=1781s) ### Example 5 > "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." - **Watch at 2:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47T9WHWaU0&t=165s) ### Example 6 > "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." - **Watch at 5:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATCr-gQvPA&t=322s) ### Example 7 > "From the amoeba to the zebra, everybody has a certain amount of preprogrammed memory, this strand we call DNA." - **Watch at 19:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJDFDscmWE&t=1155s) ### Example 8 > "Soon as we're in contact with the spacecraft, it's doing everything preprogrammed." - **Watch at 32:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsaRKb_MmhE&t=1930s) ### Example 9 > "So a child brain might be naturally selected, comes into the world preprogrammed with the rule, whatever else you do," - **Watch at 29:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAg9iGPLQ&t=1751s) ### Example 10 > "very large amounts of data about what people are likely to do and putting in sort of preprogrammed behaviors that respond to known human" - **Watch at 43:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgE5k7NpmfA&t=2592s) ## How to Pronounce "preprogramme" - **Syllables**: pre · pro · gramme - **IPA**: `/prɛprɒʊgrɪmm/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [preprogrammes](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preprogrammes), [preprogrammed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preprogrammed), [preprogramming](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preprogramming) ## Related Pronunciations [pre](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pre), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabdominal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdominal), [preablated](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablated), [preablation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablation), [preabortal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortal), [preabortion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortion), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “preprogramme”? “preprogramme” is pronounced /prɛprɒʊgrɪmm/ (pre · pro · gramme). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “preprogramme”? “preprogramme” has 3 syllables: pre · pro · gramme. ### What does “preprogramme” mean? Before a programme (of study, etc.). ### How can I hear “preprogramme” used in real sentences? This page has 14 real-world video examples of “preprogramme” with synchronized subtitles. 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