How To Pronounce Cinema

In British English, cinema is pronounced /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsɪ̃n.ə.mə]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/.

Cinema has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.