--- title: "How to pronounce \"proforma\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"proforma\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/XoO8_CVEDyc/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/proforma" --- # How to pronounce "proforma" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/prɒfɒrmæ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pro·for·ma** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Alternative spelling of pro forma. ### NOUN - Alternative spelling of pro forma. ### Example Sentences - "proforma of becoming inhuman of course to make matters complicated the performa and form and performance live side by side poetry's" - "gap loss or a proformal loss. Uh so uh I would be pressed to speculate on it, but" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "proforma" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "of becoming human acts as a kind of literal Counter Intelligence to the proforma of becoming inhuman of course to make matters complicated the performa and form and performance live side by side poetry's task as aishan Hutchinson asserted in a recent interview is that of quote troubling the conscience of the neighbor especially when that neighbor" - **Watch at 1:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoO8_CVEDyc&t=60s) ### Example 2 > "press release is rather vague. The loss doesn't specify whether or not it's a gap loss or a proformal loss. Uh so uh I would be pressed to speculate on it, but certainly it would be lower. numbers are going to go down. But I think the decline in the stock price, the sharp decline reflects the fact that this" - **Watch at 0:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPY6YpxwkPw&t=46s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "they worked in reverse and that proforma led us to a mixed use building that was very large in order to support their aspirations of" - **Watch at 13:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsyuyQ1bel0&t=810s) ### Example 4 > "None of the creators of these products could have predicted the effects that they would have on society. And none of these effects could have been modeled in a proforma spreadsheet. I saw the effect of these effects every single day when I was working on that assembly line in Shanghai." - **Watch at 5:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxcAjai3RE&t=322s) ### Example 5 > "If you look at our total capital ratio, that gets up to 20% or so, which includes our subdebt. If you bailed in our senior debt, that would give us, if you will, a proforma capital ratio of about 80%. So, it goes well beyond, I think, even the far right of of David's chart in terms of potential capital you could bring to bear on a" - **Watch at 23:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrfpy7hi0Vk&t=1424s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "We Exist at a time of the proor proforma an action undertaken as a" - **Watch at 0:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoO8_CVEDyc&t=9s) ### Example 7 > "to put a multiple of 2022 on that yeah almost calendar year 20110 so their fiscal year ended September so we're just going out another quarter so our proforma calendar year 20 10 number is $11.75 I think apple is the best technology company on the planet today so I'm willing to pay a 50% premium relative to the S&P 500 so you know Market multiple today is roughly 15" - **Watch at 3:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iMYq-pqUnc&t=232s) ### Example 8 > "years and you could buy it at a discount to book value. People would say well there must be something wrong. Yeah. And in fact, Persing Square Holdings today trades at about a 10% discount to book value. And if proforma for the lower incentive fees of purchasing grow Holdings, it's, you know, part of a group of funds that have earned 25% for a long time." - **Watch at 1:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWv210QWOFE&t=112s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "which the narrator replies I am paid by the word for my transcriptions If This Were A proforma exchange the poet narrator has just" - **Watch at 2:42**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoO8_CVEDyc&t=162s) ### Example 10 > "teaser rates you had uh you know low doc loans no doc loans in the final you know ninja loans which are no income no job no assets no problem um and then what sets in in these sort of stages of a bubble is what i call proforman disease where people look back and they say the last three years looked like this grew at 10 percent therefore the next five years are going to go like that and" - **Watch at 22:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYE6kXiobh8&t=1323s) ## How to Pronounce "proforma" - **Syllables**: pro · for · ma - **IPA**: `/prɒfɒrmæ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “proforma”? “proforma” is pronounced /prɒfɒrmæ/ (pro · for · ma). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “proforma”? “proforma” has 3 syllables: pro · for · ma. ### What does “proforma” mean? Alternative spelling of pro forma. ### How can I hear “proforma” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “proforma” with synchronized subtitles. 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