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# pronounce

«pronounce» in Mova's school dictionary: **To say a word's sounds in a particular way: How do you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (pronounce, pronounces, pronounced, pronouncing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To say a word's sounds in a particular way: How do you pronounce «Worcestershire»? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#m1)

2) (formal) To announce or declare something officially: The doctor pronounced him fit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#m2)

3) To give a judgement or opinion: The judge pronounced the sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils learn to pronounce new words, sounds and silent letters (the k in «knee»). In stories and ceremonies: «I now pronounce you husband and wife». In science and medicine, a doctor pronounces someone healthy. Phrases: «pronounce correctly», «pronounce a word», «pronounce judgement», «pronounce dead» (formal, sad).

### examples

- How do you pronounce this word? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x1)
- The k in «knife» is not pronounced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x2)
- She pronounced each word carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x3)
- The judges pronounced the cake the winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x4)
- The doctor pronounced her fit to play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x5)
- I can't pronounce the name of that town in Wales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x6)
- The teacher helped us pronounce «Wednesday». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x7)
- He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: pronounced. Spelling trap: the noun is «pronunciation» — no «o» after the n: pro-NUN-ciation, not «pronounciation». Not the same as «announce».

### In the corpora

- [An accent is the way people pronounce words; a dialect is a local way of speaking with its own words and grammar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/18-accents-and-dialects-of-britain-and-ireland/5/)
- [And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.325/)
- [And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.332/)
- [he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.354/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pronounce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pronounce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.