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How to pronounce “productive”

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Pronunciation guide for productive

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of productive with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The 4-Hour BodyAnd while he was working on WordPress he had his most productive year of coding; probably
Definition summary: Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

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The 4-Hour Body

And while he was working on WordPress he had his most productive year of coding; probably

[Adjective]
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
(medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
(medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set
S
{\displaystyle S}
is productive if there exists a total recursive function
f
{\displaystyle f}
such that
∀
x
∈
N
,
W
x
⊆
S
⇒
f
(
x
)
∈
A
∖
W
x
{\displaystyle \forall x\in \mathbb {N} ,~~W_{x}\subseteq S\Rightarrow f(x)\in A\setminus W_{x}}
, where
W
x
{\displaystyle W_{x}}
is a recursive function whose Gödel number is
x
{\displaystyle x}
.