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Entrepreneur is pronounced ahn-truh-pruh-NUR in American English and on-truh-pruh-NUR in British English. It has four syllables, and the main stress is on the last, NUR.
entrepreneur
noun · a person who starts a business and takes risks to make it succeed
IPA checked in the Cambridge Dictionary and Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. Cambridge also lists /-ˈnʊər/ for American English. The usual form is NUR. The recording is American English.
Each sound in the IPA, with a word you already know that has it.
US American English/ˌɑːn.trə.prəˈnɝː/
ahn
truh
pruh
NURstressed
UK British English/ˌɒn.trə.prəˈnɜː/
on
truh
pruh
NURstressed
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What people often say instead, and how to fix it. Say ahn-truh-pruh-NUR.
Noten-tre-pre-NOOR
Ending in oor. Cambridge also lists a form close to this, but NUR is the usual one.
NotEN-truh-pruh-nur
Stressing the first syllable. The main stress is on the last.
Noten-truh-PRUH-nur
Stressing the third syllable. The main stress is on NUR.
Hear each one, slow it down, then say it. Words change a little when they join others, so practise them in sentences too.
She is a young entrepreneur with three shops.
An entrepreneur needs courage and a good plan.
My father was an entrepreneur all his life.
Entrepreneur is a French word, and the stress falls on the end, like many French words in English: NUR. The first syllable has a lighter secondary stress.
The word is borrowed from French entrepreneur, a person who undertakes something. It is built from entreprendre, to undertake, and the ending -eur, which names a person who does an action. English says the ending as ur (NUR), like the end of amateur and chauffeur.
The tricky part is the middle: truh-pruh. Say it slowly, then speed up. The first vowel is not en: it is ahn in the US and on in the UK, and the n is a normal English n.
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