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"Very fast" and "very quickly" are literal English equivalents of the Italian musical term prestissimo. The adverb in question combines the masculine singular adjective prestowith the suffix -issimo ("extremely," "very"). The pronunciation will be "preh-STEES-see-mo" in Italian.

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