TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “pretending

Hear “pretending” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for pretending

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of pretending with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Jorge R. Gutierrezpretending to be Americans.
Definition summary
The act of imagining; make-believe.

Example 1 of 8

How to pronounce pretending

Jorge R. Gutierrez

pretending to be Americans.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “pretending

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • The act of imagining; make-believe.
  • [Verb]
  • present participle and gerund of pretend

Practice Nearby Words

pretense, feigning, pretence, simulation, make-believe, fake, sham, bluffing, posing, alleging, contending, arguing, seeming, appearing, affirming, claiming, claim, resembling, saying, masquerading, akin, playing, demonstrating, faking, purporting, shamming, simulating, acting, posturing, dissembling, impersonating, playacting, make-believing, affecting, assuming, counterfeiting, role-playing, professing, fabricating, inventing, make belief, imagining, imagination, imaginary, imaginariness, figment of one's imagination, 'magination, fancy, fantasization, mimicry, supposition, figmentation, reimagination, imagery, representation, self-delusion, visioning, wishful thinking, imaginer, mirage, envisioning, phantasia, sociodramatics, fantasy, pseudoair, appersonation, imaginarium, imaging, romance, mimesis, imaginist, idealization, imaginationalism, imaginary friend, vision, picture, suspicion, mental image, pseudoreality, disguise, envisagement, simulacrum, mind's eye, restitutive fantasy, visualization, picturing, feeler, fictioneering, confabulation, impostorism, thought, phantasy, reading, reverie, stageplaying, illusionism, psychomime, willusionism, worldmaking, trompe-l'œil

Similar Sounds

pretending, protending, presenting, pretendo, pretendence, pretendant, pretends, pretend, pretender, pretended, preventing, portending, pretend to, pretendingly, pretesting, pretension, pretention, patenting, apprehending, protesting, pretenders, protruding, brightening, presiding, pertaining, protend, predating, presentive, propounding, bartending, printing, prisoning, pretense, pending, protecting, pretence, pretenses, preceding, preening, preventive, presuming, broadening, preempting, beaten down, prettying