Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "genes" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "genes" appears in contexts such as: "Dawkins argued that just about every trait, from animals helping each other to being completely selfish, is a strategy that helps their genes survive and replicate. Genes that maximize their own survival are the genes that propagate best, even if they do so at the expense of others. Or in Dawkins' words, we are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "genes" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 50 conversational video occurrences of "genes" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

How to pronounce“genes”in English

All Video Occurrences for “genes” (50)

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