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How to pronounce “formative”
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Pronunciation guide for formative
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of formative with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Broadway's What the Constitution Means to Me
Doing this contest as a teenager was such a formative part
- Definition summary
- Capable of forming something.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce formative
Broadway's What the Constitution Means to Me

Doing this contest as a teenager was such a formative part
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “formative”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Capable of forming something.
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
- [Noun]
- A thing which causes formation to occur.
- (linguistic morphology)
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